Textile artist Gwendolyn Magee makes powerful images in cloth about oppression, her African American heritage, and hope. She intelligently exploits the surface, color, and pattern of pieced and stitched fabric in her narrative compositions to tell stories of pain, sacrifice, faith, and dreams. Magee maintains a studio in Jackson, Mississippi, and her work is widely exhibited. "Textiles, fibers and threads are my artistic medium of choice. Color is used to set the tone and establish the mood appropriate for the subject at hand thereby creating an energy that infuses the work with vibrancy. Intricate patterning and dense threadwork subtly or explicitly reinforces each artwork's theme." - GM
Portrait photo courtesy D.E. Magee
Full of the Faith, 2000; photo courtesy Roland Freeman
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Awards & Recognitions
- Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center, For My People Award, 2007
- Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi, Fellow, 2007
- Mississippi State Committe/National Museum of Women in the Arts, Honored Artist, 2006
- Mississippi Women for Progress, Woman of Achievement, 2005
- Adjudicated, Southern Arts Federation, 2005
- Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Visual Artist of the Year, 2003
- Mississippi Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, 2011
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