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Apr 4, 2026 - Apr 12, 2026
315. L'MERCHIE FRAZIER
We Just Keep On Coming: 1706, 1965, 1968, 2020, 2025, Edition 2 of 30
Screenprint in colors on Stonehenge Cream paper
22 x 30
$2,300
Courtesy of the artist and Caira Art Editions
L’Merchie Frazier is a visual activist, fiber and public artist, historian, lecturer, poet, and Executive Director of SPOKE ART. Frazier previously served as the Director of Education and Interpretation for the Museum of African American History, Boston/Nantucket and the Director of Creative Engagement for Violence Transformed. She is a lifelong member of The Women of Color Quilter’s Network and resident artist of the African American Master Artists-in-Residency Program at Northeastern University. She is currently MIT’s 2025-2026 MLK Visiting Professor and Scholar, and recently co-taught a graduate course on textile texts in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
Her innovative art practice supports social and reparative justice, and the quest for civil and human rights through the lens of five hundred years of Black and Indigenous history. She is a Boston Foundation Brother Thomas Fellow, a mayoral appointee to Boston’s Reparations Task Force, and a gubernatorial appointment to the State of Massachusetts Art Commission. Frazier’s residencies in Brazil, Taiwan, Costa Rica, Africa, France, and Cuba feature public community projects. Her permanently collected works are in the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, the White House, Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design, and she was a 2023 Boston Celtics Heroes Among Us Awardee. Her selected interviews of literary and visual artists, recorded by GBH Forum Network, include Claudia Rankine and Dr. Margaret Burnham. Frazier’s work appears in many publications including Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters.
L'Merchie Frazier is one of the inaugural 2025 Wagner Arts Fellowship Artists. The Wagner Arts Fellowship supports mid-career to established Greater Boston visual artists whose studio or public practice illuminates issues confronting society and transforms our understanding of social change. In partnership with Wagner Foundation and United States Artists, Caira Art Editions works with interested Wagner Arts Fellows to publish a new limited edition print.
Visit: cairaart.com/editions-/wagner-arts-fellowship-limited-edition-program/l-merchie-frazier
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