L'Merchie Frazier

L’Merchie Frazier, a public historian, fiber artist, innovator, poet and holographer, is Director of Education and Interpretation for the Museum of African American History, Boston/Nantucket where she provides place-based education and interdisciplinary history programs, projects and lectures. Her artistic residencies include several international residencies.  She is resident artist of the  African American Artists in Residence Program (AAMARP) at Northeastern University and at Fairmount Innovation and Southend Technology Center, MIT FabLabs in Boston and Northeastern University Law Lab Stable Ground AIR.  She is a member of Women of Color Quilter’s Network and serves as  Creative Outreach Director of the Transformative Action Project/ Violence Transformed. Her fiber works, The Quilted Chronicles series, serve to document history and memory, and often include innovative technology. Selected works are included in several art publications and in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design, the Smithsonian Institute and the White House.