Gwendolyn Magee

Southern Heritage/Southern Shame This was my response to the failure of a referendum to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the Mississippi state flag.
	Requiem This is a lament for a vibrant city that will never again be the same with the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina compounded by the indifference and ineptitude of our government.
Not Tonight! Rifle aimed, a man crouches in the shadows of a darkened room. Refusing to be terrorized while cowering with fear, he stands ready to protect and defend to the death his home, family and manhood.
	Blood of the Slaughtered I wanted "Blood of the Slaughtered" to memorialize the faceless, forgotten and sometimes nameless souls that were subjected to horrendous agony and fear and to document that throughout the United States, there was no sanctuary for African-Americans who were thought to have acted outside society's prescribed boundaries.

Gwendolyn Magee
textiles, fibers and threads construct narratives
Originally from High Point, North Carolina, Gwendolyn Magee has been a resident of Jackson, Mississippi since 1972. She uses textiles, fibers and threads to construct the narratives that dramatically articulate historical and present-day events affecting the lives and psyches of African Americans. Her work has been exhibited widely, featured in many books and publications, and her solo exhibit, "A Journey of the Spirit: The Art of Gwendolyn A. Magee" toured eleven venues accompanied by a monograph of the same title. Gwen's work is found in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Mississippi Museum of Art. In 2007 she was named a Ford Fellow, United States Artists as well as Fellow of the Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi.
Gwen and her husband, D. E. Magee, Jr., have two daughters, a son-in-law and two grandsons. Originally from High Point, North Carolina, she has been a resident of Jackson, Mississippi since 1972.
Find out more at http://gwenmagee.com