Quilt Title - “ Save the Children ”
In response to an outmoded practice among the Ono people of Ethiopia that stigmatizes certain children Lale consulted his elders and caused the Ethiopian government to outlaw those practices. He and his wife began an orphanage to care for the children.
#lmerchiefrazier #savethechildren #ethiopia #lale
This is Robert Smalls who was enslaved and in 1862 commandeered a Confederate ship the Planter and with other Black engineers on the ship and turned it over to the Union Army in the Civil War. He became a Rep for South Carolina 2 terms and then 5 terms as a US congressman and a friend of Frederick Douglass.
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MIT FABLab in Southend Technology Center, I was honored by Mel King to present to a group of international students visiting from Ghana. The quilt was in an invitational exhibition in Washington DC of 44 invited quilters during Pres. Obama’s inauguration.
#obamainauguration #lmerchiefrazier
Thank you @bostonglobelife !
Art review by Cate McQuaid on my exhibition ““The Scene/Seen,” currently on view at SPOKE gallery.
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đź“ŚNext Monday - 1/31
Honored to be in conversation with Black Lives Matter Movement co-founder and author Patrisse Cullors (@osopepatrisse ) on her book An Abolitionist’s Handbook (@stmartinspress ).
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Looking forward to sharing more work. Today’s work that I am revisiting, “Wheeling Freedom,” a piece which celebrates Robert Smalls.
In a reflection on the piece for @artsmia Gretchen Halverson writes, “Born into slavery in South Carolina, Smalls escaped by commandeering the Confederate steamer he was working on, delivering the ship to Union forces and himself, his family, and others on board to freedom. He went on to become a politician, in his home state and in Washington, D.C., serving as one of the first African Americans elected to Congress.”
In many of my works, which celebrate the nuances Black histories, I am also asking the question: Who has the power? What histories have you not learned and why? Why are labels created for groups of people, engendering bias and racism?
📌L’Merchie Frazier, “Wheeling Freedom,” 2015. Pieced nylon fabric; machine quilting. Collection of the artist.
Greetings world đź–¤ my piece, I Matter (2016), is in the @halseymckaygallery booth at NADA Miami (@newartdealers ) in Booth 2.06
Thrilled to be showing this work alongside some other incredible artists.
Immense gratitude to be selected as 1/16 recipients of the Boston Foundation (@bostonfdn ) Brother Thomas Fellowship.
This award is given biennially to “support and celebrate a diverse group of Greater Boston artists working at a high level of excellence in a range of disciplines...”
Congrats to all of the recipients!
Image by Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times (2018)
🌹Grateful to work in and with varied mediums, including metal. Pictured are my works🌹
Looking forward to a virtual artist panel this weekend, Saturday August 28 with @metalmuseum
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🔅 My piece, “Madonna and Child: The Embrace” (2019, nylon, synthetic tape, and thinsulate fabrics 10in x 12in) on view at @artsmia until September 19 as part of exhibition Freedom Rising: I am the Story 🔅
Thank you @sarahkcal for this wonderful photo!
