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| First Name | Mary |
| Last Name | Gill |
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| Country | United States |
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I am a self taught artist, my medium is fabric, mainly silk. My imagery is derived from Trinidad, the West Indies where the annual carnival has been a major influence in my use of color.
I immigrated to the USA in 1988 and virtually abandoned making art but in 1999 I returned to it, to discover that in trying to fit into a the American way of life I had also abandoned a significant part of who I was. My work grounds me and reinforces that as human beings our similarities are greater than our differences.
Work Experience
Associate Lecturer, (Art Education)
Western Illinois University, Macomb IL 1988-2006
Associate Lecturer, (Art Education) University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin; Fall 1994
Teaching Assistant (Art Education) University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin; Fall 1988 - Spring 1992
Teacher (Art), St. Francois Girls College Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; 1970 - 1988
Owner, Designer, Hand Painted Garments by Mary Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; 1975 - 1988
Show Record
This is Mas Japanese stencils; National Library and Information System Authority of Trinidad and Tobago; Port of Spain Trinidad. February 2007
Caribbean Tales Places Vaguely Remembered. African American Cultural Center; University of Illinois At Chicago 2005
Caribbean Tales Memory, Yearning and Places Vaguely Remembered. University Gallery; Western Illinois University Macomb IL 2004
Spirit of the Cloth. Contemporary Art Center of Peoria; Peoria, IL 2002
Cloth: Fabric Surface Design by Mary Gill. University Gallery, Western Illinois University Macomb, IL 2001 |
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