During her time in the residency, Elizabeth will complete a series of 16×20 framed fabric collages and develop “Sunday Dinner at Grandma’s House”—a new body of work honoring the kitchen table as sacred space where Black women hold wisdom, stories, nourishment, and intergenerational presence. Working across handmade collage, fabric, embroidery, and found materials, each piece interrogates memory, legacy, and the quiet power of family ritual.
I create as mixed media artist working in collage, textiles, and found materials. My practice centers Black interior life, memory, and generational inheritance through layered narratives. At Lamplight, I will complete intimate-scale framed fabric collages and develop a new body of work exploring the sacred space of family gathering.
Artist Statement:
Through collage and mixed media, I examine the intimate spaces where Black people gather and decide what to hold—the kitchen table, the quiet moment between generations where wisdom moves forward. These are where survival becomes strategy. Where memory becomes legacy. My practice honors Black interior life: how we love, teach, protect, and imagine futures. I layer fabric, photographs, found text, and stitched gesture to hold contradiction—what was inherited and what we reject, what we survive and what we thrive in. I am interested in long-game thinking. What does it mean to make art that honors both the immediate and the ancestral? My work asks this through lived experience—faith, memory, family, the small rituals that hold us. I work intuitively and deliberately at once. Contradiction is not a problem to solve—it is the landscape. Each piece invites you to recognize that Black interior life is not small. It is everything.
