L'Merchie Frazier

{{short description|American textile artist}}

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L'Merchie Frazier (born 1951 Jacksonville, Florida){{cite web |title=L'Merchie Frazier |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/lmerchie-frazier-27853 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=25 March 2025 |language=en}} is an American artist, educator, and poet.{{cite web |title=National Day of Racial Healing - Lecture by L'Merchie Frazier: “Reparations: Is There a Black Aesthetic?” |url=https://events.newark.rutgers.edu/event/lecture_by_lmerchie_frazier_reparations_is_there_a_black_aesthetic |website=Rutgers University-Newark |access-date=25 March 2025 |language=en}} She is best known for fiber art.

Frazier studied at the City College of New York, the University of Hartford, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.{{Cite web |title=Museum of Fine Arts Boston {{!}} Boston's Art Museum |url=https://www.mfa.org/ |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=www.mfa.org |language=en}}

Frazier is a past director of education at the Museum of African American History, Boston/Nantucket and the artist in residence for the city of Boston.{{cite web |title=L’Merchie Frazier |url=https://www.boston.gov/government/cabinets/equity-and-inclusion-cabinet/lmerchie-frazier |website=Boston.gov |access-date=25 March 2025 |language=en |date=22 November 2019}} As the Art Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, she is part of the Massachusetts Senate Art Committee.{{Cite web |title=Press Room |url=https://malegislature.gov/PressRoom/Detail?pressReleaseId=173 |access-date=2025-04-23 |website=malegislature.gov}} She is also the Executive Director of Creative and Strategic Partnerships at SPOKE Art.{{Cite web |date=2025-01-21 |title=Art gallery located in New York, NY and San Francisco, CA |url=https://spoke-art.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopY_kv-69q4KyI9tVRocYI4553NWE6CZwMTK3x3RHDj3X0RN2lr |access-date=2025-02-27 |website=Spoke Art |language=en}} Her work was included in the 2020 exhibition We Are the Story presented by the Textile Center and the Women of Color Quilters Network in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as well as the 2021 exhibition Freedom Rising: I Am the Story at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.{{cite web |title=Freedom Rising: I Am the Story / L’Merchie Frazier |url=https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/freedom-rising-i-am-the-story-lmerchie-frazier |website=Minneapolis Institute of Art |access-date=25 March 2025}}

She has taught at Pine Manor College, Wesleyan University, Bunker Hill Community College and MIT.

Frazier was the 2024 artist-in-residence at the Mississippi Museum of Art.{{cite web |title=Artist Talk: L’Merchie Frazier |url=https://www.msmuseumart.org/event/artist-talk-lmerchie-frazier/ |website=Mississippi Museum of Art |access-date=25 March 2025}} The same year her work was included in the exhibition Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women at the Renwick Gallery.

In 2025 her work was included in We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists at the Renwick.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists |url=https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/we-gather-edge-contemporary-quilts-black-women-artists%3Aevent-exhib-6766 |website=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=25 March 2025 |language=en}}

Frazier's quilts are in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art{{cite web |title=Barricades: I Am The Story (CAUTION/CUIDADO), L'Merchie Frazier |url=https://collections.artsmia.org/art/138185/barricades-lmerchie-frazier |website=Minneapolis Institute of Art |access-date=25 March 2025}} and Smithsonian American Art Museum.