LMerchie Frazier

L’Merchie Frazier, a public fiber artist, historian, innovator, poet and holographer, her “Art Out Loud” has served the artistic community for over twenty years nationally and internationally with visual and performance art residencies in Brazil, Taiwan, Costa Rica, Africa, France, and Cuba. A public lecturer and community workshop presenter, her spatial and social justice artistic work activates youth and adults in a co-design model that reflects the participants as creative actors and their occupancy in democratizing the socio-economic political landscape.  

L’Merchie is a quilting member of Women of Color Quilter’s Network. Her Quilted Chronicles series fiber works and installations serve to document history and memory, utilizing innovative technology.  She is a resident artist of African American Artists in Residence Program (AAMARP) at Northeastern University and Southend Technology Center, MIT FabLabs in Boston. Residencies include City of Boston’s AIR; the New England Foundation for the Arts Creative City individual artist grant and Visible Republic; the NEU NULaw Lab Stable Ground 1.0 and current 2.0; and the Eliot School of Fine Arts and Applied Arts. She is resident Artist/ Historian for Castle of Our Skins. Currently a Google commissioned artist. Her work is represented in several art publications and in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design, the Smithsonian Institute and the White House.

L’Merchie is Director of Education and Interpretation for the Museum of African American History, Boston/Nantucket, interpreting/curating the Museum’s collection/exhibits, for place-based history education programs and serves on the Massachusetts Council on History and Social Studies for public schools. She has served the Boards of CityLife /Vida Urbana, Paige Academy and the Art Commons Boston AppLab. Currently she is Director of Creative Engagement of Transformative Action Project/Violence Transformed for the Public Health Advocacy Institute initiative at Northeastern University.

My art in all mediums and genres is one life work:  “Save Me From My Amnesia.”