Finished mending of hands. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Brooks Harris Stevens
Teaching Artist Cohort
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2026
Brooks Harris Stevens is an artist who finds inspiration in our shared and faltered experiences, often expressed through acts of repetition and care, as she focuses on social complexities that challenge humanity’s understanding of the social histories embedded within the handmade. Her interdisciplinary fiber-based work is often created with simple materials, marking time and connecting to narratives through the structure of cloth. Installations, performance-based works and stitching allow her to create works that intersect and question current cultural and social meanings embedded in material. Brooks emphasizes time, labor, value and the emotional resonance carried through textile processes. These gestures foreground domestic and fiber traditions addressing social complexity, resilience, and material memory.
Outside of her studio practice, Brooks is an educator and has lectured on textiles practices in Europe, Asia, and North America while exhibiting work in solo, group, and juried exhibitions nationally and internationally. Brooks has had work in exhibitions at the Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw, Georgia), Greenville Museum of Art (North Carolina), Hangaram Museum (Seoul) the Textile Center (Minneapolis), Kent State University Museum (Ohio), Textile Quilt Museum (San Jose, California), and the New England Quilt Museum (Lowell, Massachusetts).
Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, Brooks Harris Stevens (b. 1973) lives and works in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Stevens has been published in Artistry in Fiber, Vol. 2: Sculpture, Ruminate Magazine, Surface Design Journal, Fiber Art Now, CREATE! Magazine, and many others.
Selected works
Landscape mending. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Landscape Mending at Peninsular Paper Company site in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Action of built environment mending in Leh Ladakh, India, a disputed land between Afghanistan, India, and Nepal. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Mending performance on “When Will It Be Enough,” adding more gold thread to mass shooting locations in the United States. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“When Will It Be Enough (detail with brass bullet casings).” Photo courtesy of the artist.
Action shot of mending two people’s hands together. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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