Joann Quiñones

Joann Quiñones has a Ph.D. in American Literature and is currently an Associate Professor of English at Earlham College in Richmond, IN. She completed an MFA in Studio Art from Indiana University, Bloomington in May 2019.  She has shown work at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, OH, Higher Art Gallery in Traverse City, MI, and Earlham College in Richmond, IN, among other locations, and she will show at NCECA's Annual Exhibition in Richmond, VA, in March 2020.  Combining fiber, sculpture, and ceramics, her figurative works explore the connections between history, race, gender, and sexual identity.

Seeing Lizzie

A series of nine pieces in response to the life of Elizabeth Breckenridge (1843-1910), a Black woman who lived with and worked as a paid domestic servant for the second Wylie family to occupy the home. 

Lizzie Lives Here

Myth of the Mammy

Jump: Broom: Swept

In Memory of Her Hands

As One of the Family

American Ibeyi

Topsy

Quiet As It's Kept

Lizzie Liked Stars

Images courtesy of the IU Office of the Provost (Ethan Gill).