COVID-19 PAGES Featured Artist – TINA WILLIAMS BREWER
Tina Williams Brewer is an internationally renowned fiber artist known for her artistic exploration of African American history and culture. She uses layered textiles, images, and embellishments to create story quilts rich with symbolism and is motivated by issues focusing on family, women, and spirituality.
Tina is a teaching artist working predominantly with young people in urban communities. She is an “elder” in the African American community of Pittsburgh, and takes great pride in mentoring young people to empower them to communicate about their life and culture through the arts.
Tina’s art has been recognized by the American Arts in Embassy Program for more than 20 years and she has consistently been at the forefront of artists recognized by Pennsylvania’s Governors. She received the 2018 Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Artist of the Year. Her work is represented in the permanent collection of The State Museum of Pennsylvania, the African American Museum in Dallas, Huntington Museum of Art, the National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center, and other collections throughout the country.
“Out of Troubled Waters Comes Bliss” is a fiber art story quilt that Tina contributed to COVID-19 PAGES. She describes it as “an inspiration born from forced isolation.”
Tina wrote of her pandemic lockdown experience as follows:
“Spring, the season formally known as a rebirth period. A forced redefining of expectations that I had known for the past seven decades of my life. Over time I realized the necessity of a safe haven. Where was it? Realizing how much I depended on the outside world, its predictable yet unpredictable nature, to float in from one day and out to the next. Moving through this space I called my own, yet I knew nothing of it.”
To visit the exhibition, click here: https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org/covid-19-pages-exhibit/To visit COVID-19 PAGES: The Influence & Inspiration of Women, click on the following link: https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org/covid-19-pages-exhibit/
