Join us for an inside look at the the books in the Museum of African American History, Boston/Nantucket's collection from L'Merchie Frazier, the museum's Director of Education and Interpretation.
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L’Merchie Frazier is the Director of Education and Interpretation for the Museum of African American History, Boston/Nantucket. She was one of three artists chosen for the 2016 City of Boston AIR artist in residency program from the Mayor’s Office of Art and Culture working with the Department of Substance Abuse Recovery Services and its community. She is adjunct faculty for Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She has served the artistic community for over twenty years as an award winning national and international visual and performance artist and poet with residencies in Brazil, Taiwan, France, and Cuba. Recent residencies include the New England Foundation for the Arts 2018 Creative Cities and the 2018 Stable Ground Northeastern University Law School Artist Residency. As a lecturer and workshop presenter her audiences include youth and adults. L’Merchie is a member of Women of Color Quilter’s Network. She is a Northeastern University resident artist at AAMARP, African American Master Artist in Residency Program, and resident artist at Southend Technology Center and Fairmount Innovation Lab, MIT FabLabs in Boston. She is Board member of the Boston APP/Lab. Her fiber works serve to document history and memory, and often include innovative technology. These artworks are featured in a series entitled The Quilted Chronicles. L’Merchie’s selected works are included in several art publications and in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Smithsonian Institute and the White House.