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LITERATURE
PUBLICATIONS
Daughter Mouth Blues, (Blacksmith & Bones Press, 2017)
Berthenia Belle, (Blacksmith & Bones Press, 2017)
Our Name is Memory, (Blacksmith & Bones Press, 2013, 2017)
Bebop in the Small of Her Back, (Blacksmith & Bones Press, 2013, 2017)
Individual poems published in Border Crossing, Sage Woman, A&U Magazine, Caketrain Literary Magazine,
Obsidian Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora and audio presentations at WordPlaySound.com
AWARDS
2017 National Poetry Series Finalist
2015 Charlotte Sheedy Fellow, The MacDowell Colony
2011 Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Grant, Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation
2005 Pushcart Nominee, The Mutilated Woman
2004 Fellowship, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
2003 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Literature – Fiction
Finalist, Multicultural Sojourn Program, Travel Beyond Borders Magazine
Caresses Worth Dying For, First Prize, Stickman Review Fiction Contest
THEATER
2008 Staged Reading, Loving, University of Pittsburgh, Theater Arts Department, Heymann Theater
SELECTED TEACHING RESIDENCIES (poetry - quilting)
2016 As We Mend, private students, in-studio
Look Touch Feel Write, Women Against Abusive Relationships
2011 – 2012 The Millvue Acres Poetry and Quilting, Clariton, PA
2007 – 2009 The Society of Yoruba Bead Artists (SYBA) Artist Residency Program
1997 – 2011 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Artists in Education Program
2002 Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association Residency, Ohio
2000 – 2001 Surdna Foundation Grant, McKeesport, PA School District Residency
1999 Brooklyn Public Library, New York
EDUCATION
2010 MFA, Creative Writing, University of Southern Maine at Stonecoast
FIBER ART
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2009 Transformation, The Society of Yoruba Bead Artists, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Passages, Eastside Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Textile Interiors, ARTica, Pittsburgh, PA
2001 Perspectives, City County Building, City of Pittsburgh
2000 I Can Still Quilt Without My Glasses; Artisans: Slave Antique and Contemporary;
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and Merrick Art Gallery, New Brighton, PA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Excavation, Art Quilts to Mine the Soul. Abyssinia LLC, Pittsburgh, PA
1999 Stitched From the Heart. Campbell Gallery, Sewickley Academy, Sewickley, PA
Back to the Source: An Oracle. Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA
1997 The Creative Connection: Ancestral & Beyond, Foreland Street Studio, Pittsburgh, PA
AWARDS
2009 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Apprenticeship in Folk and Traditional Arts (Master Quilter)
2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Apprenticeship in Folk and Traditional Arts (Apprentice Yoruba Bead Work)
2006 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Apprenticeship in Folk and Traditional Arts (Apprentice Yoruba Bead Work)
2000 Surdna Foundation, Multi-year grant, field/studio work, artist residencies
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Silver Lake Senior Care Facility, Pittsburgh, PA. Big Grandma’s Fan
Nurture Clubs, The Healing Space, Pittsburgh, PA. Aretha’s Voice, My Soul Serenade
Children’s Defense Fund, Langston Hughes Library, Former Alex Haley Farm, Clinton, TN. The Jazz Poet
Housing Authority, City of Pittsburgh. A Vine and Leaves Falling Over A Crooked Fence
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Transformation, The Society of Yoruba Bead Artists, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Passages, Eastside Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2005 The Healing Power of Art, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Horizon Womancare Center, Hermitage, Pennsylvania
2004 Common Threads, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Artist as Quiltmaker, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH
Threads of Faith, The Gallery at the American Bible Society, New York, NY
2003 Costume designer Good Morning Revolution, Sankofa, African Grove Performance Ensemble, Pittsburgh, PA
Quilters and Preservers of Western Pennsylvania, Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center,
in Association with the Smithsonian Institution, Pittsburgh, PA
2002 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Resident Artists, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA.
The Spirit of the Cloth: African American Quilts Today, 1999 through 2002: American Craft Museum, New York,
Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC; Renwick Gallery of American Art, Washington, DC;
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL; Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN; Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX
2001 Threads of Freedom: The Underground Railroad Story in Quilts, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts and
Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization, Oberlin, Ohio
Threads Unraveled - Stories Revealed, NBC Gallery, New York; General Electric Gallery, Connecticut;
University of Michigan Women’s Center
2000 A Gathering of Women; A Healing Place; 1000 Expressions of Life, The Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA;
The Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library Logan Square, Philadelphia, PA and the Paul Robeson Gallery
of the Pennsylvania State University, University Park
1998 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1997 Threads of Experience, Seton Hill College, Greensburg, PA
PUBLICATIONS
Daughter Mouth Blues, (Blacksmith & Bones Press, 2017)
Berthenia Belle, (Blacksmith & Bones Press, 2017)
Our Name is Memory, (Blacksmith & Bones Press, 2013, 2017)
Bebop in the Small of Her Back, (Blacksmith & Bones Press, 2013, 2017)
Individual poems published in Border Crossing, Sage Woman, A&U Magazine, Caketrain Literary Magazine,
Obsidian Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora and audio presentations at WordPlaySound.com
AWARDS
2017 National Poetry Series Finalist
2015 Charlotte Sheedy Fellow, The MacDowell Colony
2011 Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Grant, Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation
2005 Pushcart Nominee, The Mutilated Woman
2004 Fellowship, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
2003 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Literature – Fiction
Finalist, Multicultural Sojourn Program, Travel Beyond Borders Magazine
Caresses Worth Dying For, First Prize, Stickman Review Fiction Contest
THEATER
2008 Staged Reading, Loving, University of Pittsburgh, Theater Arts Department, Heymann Theater
SELECTED TEACHING RESIDENCIES (poetry - quilting)
2016 As We Mend, private students, in-studio
Look Touch Feel Write, Women Against Abusive Relationships
2011 – 2012 The Millvue Acres Poetry and Quilting, Clariton, PA
2007 – 2009 The Society of Yoruba Bead Artists (SYBA) Artist Residency Program
1997 – 2011 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Artists in Education Program
2002 Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association Residency, Ohio
2000 – 2001 Surdna Foundation Grant, McKeesport, PA School District Residency
1999 Brooklyn Public Library, New York
EDUCATION
2010 MFA, Creative Writing, University of Southern Maine at Stonecoast
FIBER ART
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2009 Transformation, The Society of Yoruba Bead Artists, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Passages, Eastside Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Textile Interiors, ARTica, Pittsburgh, PA
2001 Perspectives, City County Building, City of Pittsburgh
2000 I Can Still Quilt Without My Glasses; Artisans: Slave Antique and Contemporary;
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and Merrick Art Gallery, New Brighton, PA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Excavation, Art Quilts to Mine the Soul. Abyssinia LLC, Pittsburgh, PA
1999 Stitched From the Heart. Campbell Gallery, Sewickley Academy, Sewickley, PA
Back to the Source: An Oracle. Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA
1997 The Creative Connection: Ancestral & Beyond, Foreland Street Studio, Pittsburgh, PA
AWARDS
2009 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Apprenticeship in Folk and Traditional Arts (Master Quilter)
2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Apprenticeship in Folk and Traditional Arts (Apprentice Yoruba Bead Work)
2006 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Apprenticeship in Folk and Traditional Arts (Apprentice Yoruba Bead Work)
2000 Surdna Foundation, Multi-year grant, field/studio work, artist residencies
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Silver Lake Senior Care Facility, Pittsburgh, PA. Big Grandma’s Fan
Nurture Clubs, The Healing Space, Pittsburgh, PA. Aretha’s Voice, My Soul Serenade
Children’s Defense Fund, Langston Hughes Library, Former Alex Haley Farm, Clinton, TN. The Jazz Poet
Housing Authority, City of Pittsburgh. A Vine and Leaves Falling Over A Crooked Fence
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Transformation, The Society of Yoruba Bead Artists, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Passages, Eastside Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2005 The Healing Power of Art, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Horizon Womancare Center, Hermitage, Pennsylvania
2004 Common Threads, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Artist as Quiltmaker, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH
Threads of Faith, The Gallery at the American Bible Society, New York, NY
2003 Costume designer Good Morning Revolution, Sankofa, African Grove Performance Ensemble, Pittsburgh, PA
Quilters and Preservers of Western Pennsylvania, Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center,
in Association with the Smithsonian Institution, Pittsburgh, PA
2002 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Resident Artists, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA.
The Spirit of the Cloth: African American Quilts Today, 1999 through 2002: American Craft Museum, New York,
Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC; Renwick Gallery of American Art, Washington, DC;
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL; Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN; Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX
2001 Threads of Freedom: The Underground Railroad Story in Quilts, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts and
Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization, Oberlin, Ohio
Threads Unraveled - Stories Revealed, NBC Gallery, New York; General Electric Gallery, Connecticut;
University of Michigan Women’s Center
2000 A Gathering of Women; A Healing Place; 1000 Expressions of Life, The Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA;
The Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Library Logan Square, Philadelphia, PA and the Paul Robeson Gallery
of the Pennsylvania State University, University Park
1998 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1997 Threads of Experience, Seton Hill College, Greensburg, PA