The Journey Continues
Works by Carole Harris
Coinciding with Harold Neal and Detroit African American Artists: 1945 through the Black Arts Movement, the department is honored to feature Works by Carole Harris, located on the upper level of the ELJG. Carole is this year’s recipient of the annual CFPCA Arts Achievement Award in Visual Arts.
Carole Harris earned a BFA in interior design and crafts at Wayne State University in 1966. She is the past president of Harris Design Group, the interior design firm she founded in 1976. Among the firm's many projects are the interiors of the Federal Reserve Bank in Detroit, gaming, entertainment and office spaces for MGM Grand Detroit Casino, and public spaces of the Book Cadillac Hotel and Condominiums, Detroit.
In addition to her many accomplishments as an interior designer and entrepreneur, Harris, is an accomplished textile artist. Her work in textiles and fiber arts has been published extensively and is exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in NYC, and galleries in Europe and Japan.
Seeking a Place to Land, 2021, Materials: commercially printed cottons, hand dyed hand painted and rust dyed cottons, cotton batting. Techniques: Fused and Machine piecing, hand quilted.
Straight No Chaser, 2006, Materials: commercially printed cottons, cotton batting. Techniques: Machine piecing, hand quilted.
13. Other People’s Memories, 2016, Materials: commercially printed cottons, miscellaneous recycled fabrics, acrylic paint on cotton, rust dyed cotton, with cotton batting. Techniques: Fused, machine and hand quilted.
Who Knows Where the Time Goes, 2018, Courtesy of Dick Creuger and Elizabeth Cheslock Materials and techniques: commercially printed cottons, miscellaneous recycled fabrics, acrylic paint on cotton, rust dyed cotton, discharge dyed cotton with cotton batting. Fused and Machine pieced, hand quilted and hand embroidered.
Nocturn, 2018, Materials and techniques: Discharge dyed cottons rust dyed cotton, with cotton batting. Machine and hand quilted.
8. Up Until Now, 2017, Materials and techniques: commercially printed cottons, miscellaneous recycled fabrics, acrylic paint on cotton, rust dyed cotton, with cotton batting. Fused and Machine pieced. Machine and hand quilted and hand embroidered.
Where It’s At, 1990, Materials: commercially printed cottons, cotton batting. Techniques: Machine piecing, hand quilted.
9. Motor City Blues, 2021, Materials and techniques: commercially printed cottons, miscellaneous recycled fabrics with acrylic paint, rust dyed cotton, with cotton batting. Fused and machine and hand quilted and hand embroidered.
10. Migration, 2020, Materials and techniques: Hand dyed cotton fabric, Mulberry paper using the Joomchi process (felted with water), machine stitched and hand embroidered with cotton thread
Reconstruction, 2012, Materials: commercially printed cottons, cotton batting. Techniques: Machine piecing, hand quilted.
The Past We Step Into, 2020, Courtesy WSU Art Collection, hand dyed cotton, cotton batik, repurposed ethnographic fabrics, thread, and cotton batting
Caribbean Dreamscape, 2013, Materials: commercially printed cottons, cotton batting. Techniques: Machine piecing, hand quilted.