GWEN TRIAY SAMUELS
Apex, North Carolina
www.triayarts.com/triayarts@gmail.com
VISUAL ART EXHIBITION VENUES:
African American Fiber Arts Festival, “Celebrating Black Music,” North Charleston, SC; 2024
City Gallery at Waterfront Park, “Celebrating Black Mermaids: From Africa to America,” Charleston, SC; 2023.
African American Fiber Arts Festival, “Sister Girlfriends (and Brothers Too),” and “From Chaos to Community: Envisioning Social Justice,” North Charleston, SC; 2022 and 2023.
Sumter County Gallery of Art, “All That We Still Carry,” Sumter, SC; 2023.
New Mexico State Fair, Alice K. Hoppes African American Art Pavilion, Albuquerque; 2016-2022.
New Mexico Cancer Center, Gallery with A Cause, “Anniversary Exhibition #1,” Albuquerque, NM; 2022.
Textile Center/Women of Color Quilters Network, “We Are the Story,” Minneapolis, MN; 2020-21.
African American Fiber Arts Festival, “Black Gold” and“Sankofa,” North Charleston, SC; 2019 and 2021.
New Mexico Humanities Council, “400 Years (1619-2019)” and “Matters of the Heart: Black Art Speaks,” Albuquerque; 2019 and 2020.
New Mexico Cancer Center, Gallery with A Cause, “The Art of Healing,” Albuquerque; 2018 and 2020.
African American Performing Arts Center, “Re-Emergence” and “Benin to Juneteenth,” Albuquerque; 2016 and 2017.
Mancuso Quilt Festival of New Jersey, Somerset, New Jersey; 2013.
Rahway Savings Institution, RSI Annual Artists’ Contest, “Renaissance, Rebirth, Revival,” Rahway, NJ; 2012 and 2013.
The New Jersey Medical School, “Fall Arts Festival: Art, Medicine and Life,” Newark, NJ; 2009 and 2012.
Barronfest, “Fine Arts and Crafts Festival,” Woodbridge, NJ; 2011.
PUBLICATIONS (BY AND ABOUT):
“The Fabric of Service,” an article about my five year fiber art service project in support of the un-housed people of Albuquerque, NM; FIBER ART NOW MAGAZINE, Volume 2, Issue 1; Winter 2023.
BROOKGREEN 101: A CURATOR’S LEGACY, a book by Robin R. Salmon, Curator of Brookgreen Gardens on Pawley’s Island SC, in which one of my quilts appears; CLASS Publishing Division; 2022.
WE ARE THE STORY: A VISUAL RESPONSE TO RACISM, a book by Carolyn Mazloomi, Founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network in collaboration with The Textile Center (Minneapolis) documenting the 2020-2021 exhibition of the same name in which two of my quilts appear; 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; November 2020.
“Sharing African Culture through Fabric,” Black History Month interview on ¡COLORES!, New Mexico PBS Television, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr6vjC4v6-c; February 2020.
9 PATCH LIFE, first poetry collection, published by Triay Arts, https://triayarts.com; June 2019.
“Ghana EE-AH-AY!,” my punch quilt image chosen for a fundraiser button for KUNM radio station gospel show, “Train to Glory” ; 2017.
“Leap and Dance”, 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, an article about quilting with my students in the New Jersey public schools; http://www.njcomunidad.com; December 2005.
“Quilting Their Way through History: Franklin Students Learn English and More”, The Courier News; 2005.
MEMBERSHIPS:
Member, Westside Artists Workshop, Albuquerque; 2016-2023.
Member, New Mexico African American Artists’ Guild; Served as Secretary 2016-18.
Cave Canem Poetry Fellow; 2007.