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Wini McQueen

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Wini McQueen is an American artist born in Neptune, New Jersey. She grew up in Durham, North Carolina and currently resides in Macon, Georgia. Her artistic production consists on hand dyed accessories and narrative quilts. Her techniques for her well-known quilts include a image transferring process. In her work, she tackles issues of race, class, society, and women.

Work

Currently, Wini is part of the art and history outreach program at the Tubman Museum in Macon, Georgia.[1] In 2014, Wini McQueen was part of a three-artist exhibition at the Macon Arts and Sciences Museum titled "Quilts, Textiles, and Fibers In Macon Georgia".[2] Other exhibitions McQueen has been a part of include "Stitching Memories. African-American Story Quilts" at Williams College Museum of Art in 1989; "American Resources: Selected Works of African American Artists" at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in 1989; and "Black Artists of Georgia: Selections from the Tubman Museum" at the Arts Clayton Gallery in 2010. She has given public lectures at the Lanier Center of the Arts.[3]


References

  1. ^ http://www.tubmanmuseum.com/arts-history-outreach/
  2. ^ http://www.masmacon.org/quilts-textiles-fibers
  3. ^ http://knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2013/12/2/artist-wini-mcqueen-to-present-sidneys-salon-lecture-in-macon/
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