ABOUT

L’MERCHIE FRAZIER (b. Jacksonville, Florida) is a Boston based visual activist and artist /educator /consultant and currently serves as the Executive Director of Creative and Strategic Partnerships at SPOKE Art. She also serves as an art commissioner for the State of Massachusetts. She is a twenty-five year member of WCQN, Women of Color Quilter’s Network. She utilizes the healing power of art as Director of Creative Engagement for the Transformative Action Project to address trauma, crisis and violence.

Her work provocatively traverses the mediums of fiber, beads, metals, poetry, performance, or work with community, serving as threads of memory, reclaimed from the icons that bring recognition, salvation, redemption. Through her visual artwork she creates and has lauded support and praise for her evocative fiber and metal sculptures, innovative mixed media installations, hand-crafted beaded jewelry, and powerful quilt series, the “Quilted Chronicles.” Her work is currently represented by Halsey McKay Gallery.

L’Merchie has remained an active and pivotal member of the New England Community for over twenty years. Her work has been exhibited in the public and private collections of numerous institutions— University of Vermont, the American Museum of Art and Design, New York, The White House, and the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; and appeared in numerous publications— A History of Art in Africa, by Monica Visona, International Review of African American Art, Journey of Hope: Quilts Inspired by President Barack Obama and Spirits of the Cloth, by Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi. Boston-Art Review: Face to Face,2022

L’Merchie Frazier’s full bio can be viewed here.

L’Merchie Frazier’s CV can be viewed here.