GWEN TRIAY SAMUELS
Albuquerque, New Mexico
www.triayarts.com/triayarts@gmail.com
VISUAL ART EXHIBITION VENUES:
Community Art Gallery, Truth. Memory. Joy Resistance: Black Expressions in NewMexico, Santa Fe, NM; Served on Artist Panel “Archiving Black Expression Across Mediums”, 2026.
Unitarian Universalist Church, Earth Web and Black History Month Art Exhibit, Albuquerque, NM; 2025/2026.
NM State Fair, Alice K. Hoppes African American Art Pavilion, Albuquerque; 2016-2025.
Fusion Art Gallery, Protest!, Albuquerque; 2024.
City Gallery, Celebrating Black Mermaids: From Africa To America, Charleston, South Carolina; 2023.
Sumter County Gallery of Art, All That We Carry, Sumter, SC; 2022.
NM Cancer Center, Gallery with A Cause, Anniversary Exhibition #1, Albuquerque; 2022.
African American Fiber Arts Festival, Black Gold and Sankofa, North Charleston, SC; 2019/2021.
Textile Center/Women of Color Quilters Network, We Are the Story, Minneapolis, MN; 2020-21.
NM Humanities Council, 400 Years (1619-2019)/Matters of the Heart: Black Art Speaks, Albuquerque; 2019/2020.
NM Cancer Center, Gallery with A Cause, The Art of Healing, Albuquerque; 2018/2020.
African American Performing Arts Center, Re-Emergence and Benin to Juneteenth, Albuquerque; 2016/2017.
Mancuso Quilt Festival of New Jersey, Somerset, New Jersey; 2013.
Rahway Savings Institution, RSI Annual Artists’ Contest, Renaissance, Rebirth, Revival, Rahway, NJ; 2012/2013.
The New Jersey Medical School, Fall Arts Festival: Art, Medicine and Life, Newark, NJ; 2009/2012.
Barronfest, Fine Arts and Crafts FestivalM Woodbridge, NJ; 2011.
PUBLICATIONS (BY AND ABOUT):
The Fabric of Service, article on my project serving the homeless of Albuquerque, Fiber Art Now Magazine; Winter 2023.
Brookgreen 101, a book by Robin R. Salmon, Curator of Brookgreen Gardens, Pawley’s Island, SC, in which one of my quilts appears; Class Publishing; 2022.
We Are the Story: A Visual Response to Racism, a book by Carolyn Mazloomi, Founder, Women of Color Quilters Network, with The Textile Center (Minneapolis) documenting the exhibition of the same name in which two of my quilts appeared; Paper Moon Publishing; 2021.
“COVID Survivor Shares Journey of Illness, Recovery”, a review of my memoir, A Second Second Chance…; LA Wave Newspaper; February 2021.
“Black and At Risk,” a review of my memoir, A Second Second Chance…; Taos News; November 2020.
A Second Second Chance: A Black Woman’s Story of Recovery from COVID-19, Finalist, Indie Book Awards; my memoir published by Triay Arts; 2020.
“Sharing African Culture through Fabric,” interview on ¡COLORES!, New Mexico PBS Television, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr6vjC4v6-c; February 2020.
9 Patch Life, my first poetry collection; published by Triay Arts; 2019.
Ghana EE-AH-AY!, my punch quilt chosen as logo for the KUNM radio station fundraiser button for their Train to Glory gospel show; 2017.
Leap and Dance, my art quilt chosen for the Rahway Savings Institute Calendar, distributed to 4,000 bank patrons; 2013.
“La Historia con Hilo y Aguja,” Nuestra Comunidad: La Voz Latina Desde el Corazon de Nueva Jersey; http://www.njcomunidad.com; Spanish language online article about my quilting project with my middle school students; December 2005.
“Quilting Their Way through History: Franklin Students Learn English and More;” an article featuring my quilting project with my middle school students; The Courier News; 2005.
MEMBERSHIPS:
Member, Westside Artists Workshop, Albuquerque; current.
Member, New Mexico Live Poets Society; current.
Member, New Mexico African American Artists’ Guild; Served as Secretary 2016-18.
Cave Canem Poetry Fellow; 2007.
EDUCATION:
Studied “Punch Quilting” with Cristina Diaz Arntzen at Manzano Mesa Multigenerational Center, a unique “no-sew” fiber art technique is that employs fabric, batting, foam board, tempered board, and a few tools, mostly homemade, to create works reminiscent of mosaics or stained glass; Albuquerque, NM; 2015-2018.
Studied Long Arm Quilting classes at Ann Silva Sewing Center; Albuquerque, NM; 2017.
Studied “Pojagi”, the art of Korean Patchwork with Chunghie Lee at the Korea Society; New York, NY; 2009.
Attended “Quilters by the River”, a yearly summer quilting workshop retreat at Linwood Spiritual Center; studied hand quilting, machine piecing, color and fabric combining, applique, sandwiching, quilt binding, and more; Rhinebeck, NY; 2001-2009.
NYU, School of Professional Studies, Certificate in East Asian Languages; New York, NY; 2009.
CUNY, Graduate Studies in Translation; New York, NY; 1991-1994.
NYU, School of Professional Studies, Certificate in Translation; New York, NY; 1990.
University of Pennsylvania, MS in Education Linguistics; Philadelphia, PA; 1979.
University of Pennsylvania, BA Dual Major, Spanish/International Relations; Philadelphia, PA; 1973.