We are pleased to feature our next maker, Coulter Fussell (coultyalo), for this installment of Makers in Their Spaces. Fussell, a quilter who runs her studio from Water Valley, Mississippi, creates elaborate works from used textiles that merge ideas of craft and traditional arts. Her works have been exhibited across the country, including at the Mississippi Museum of Art in 2018-2019, and was a 2019 United States Artists Fellow in Craft. Step into her space through our next video release on August 29 at 10 AM and join us on Monday, August 31 at 6 PM for an interactive conversation with Fussell on Instagram Live.
“Makers in Their Spaces,” is an online offering in which MMA’s virtual participants are invited into the creative space—physical, mental, social, or otherwise — of a maker, thereby giving them unique insight into how that particular artist draws inspiration from their surroundings during this time.
Bio: Coulter Fussell, a quilter, was born in Columbus, Georgia, an old textile town on the Chattahoochee River separating Georgia from Alabama. As the daughter of both a museum curator and a prolific seamstress, Coulter’s artistic path and creative practice is a continuation of that combination; a merging of the ideas of what is considered finer arts with the tried and true craft methods of traditional arts. Coulter runs an experimental textile studio in the small Hill Country town of Water Valley, Mississippi, where she lives. There, she makes boundary-pushing quilts from the donated clothes, quilts, and textiles left in bags at her studio door; donations entrusted to her by fellow townspeople. Coulter has exhibited work across the country from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to Bridget Donahue Gallery in New York City to The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, South Carolina. As a craftswoman trained only by watching her mother sew, Coulter is proud to have been the Finalist for the 2017 SouthArts Southern Prize, the 2019 Visual Arts Inductee into the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and a 2019 United States Artists Fellow in Craft.
This video was edited by Blake Barnes. Music by Jake Xerxes Fussell.
