Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Craft Research Fund Grant
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2025
This research surveys textile artist Carole Harris’ five-decade career, highlighting her contributions to Black abstraction and textile art. Building on the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s study of Gallery 7, a famed Detroit space dedicated to Black artists experimenting with abstraction and minimalism in the 1970s, it emphasizes Harris’ innovative quilts, which challenge the boundaries between craft and fine art.
Selected works
Carole Harris, "Before or Since," 2023, commercially printed machine-pieced cottons, acrylic paint on muslin, fused cottons, cotton batting, machine quilting, and hand embroidery, 57 x 39 in.
Carole Harris, "This Side of the River," 2022, machine-quilted and hand-embroidered patterned, solid, and repurposed cottons, hand-dyed muslin, cotton batting, and fusing, 66 x 55 in.
Carole Harris, "Outside the Lines," 1994, machine-pieced and machine-quilted patterned and solid cottons, 53-3/4 x 75 in.
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