“Quilts are how I honor my ancestors, my family and friends. Making quilts keeps me alert, active and interacting with the world. I hope you enjoy looking at my quilts as much as I enjoy making them. Quilting is my life.
I use my hand dyed, printed, and painted fabric to make quilt portraits of black life. I use different art methods to add designs to my work, including raku fired ceramic masks, retro photochemical processes (like cyanoprint,) and etching/burning fabric to create complex surface design.”
Lauren Austin
Quilt Artist. Storyteller. Art Instructor.
QUILT COLLECTION
"Paid for Pain", 2022
'Sky Watcher,' 2020
The Ancestors named you Horus, 2020
"Owl Boy and Tula/Merlin", 2020
Our Vision of his Transition, 2020
"Holding onto Hope", 2020
'Yemanja and Her Osprey,' 2019
'Garden Flight,' 2020
"Forest Watcher," 2020
Day Garden, 2019
'Florida Wild with Owl,' 2019
Becomes a Bird, 2019
Reading with Cranes, 2018
A Belated Thank you for Leah Tutu, 2016
Night Garden, 2019
"Yemanja/Mami Wata" 2017
At The Yellow Table, 2010
To Old Freetown's Shores, 2009
The Mask in Hand, 2007
MOST RECENT EVENTS
FEB 22, 2024
My Journey Through Art
Quilting: Public Lecture
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
FEB 21, 2024
Make Story Artbooks Workshop
February 21, 2024
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Sept 9, 2022
Black Pioneers
Exhibit curated by Carolyn L. Mazloomi
The James Museum: Western and Wildlife Art
St. Petersburg, FL
Time: 10:00am - 8:00pm
+special artist panel Sept 10, 2022 - 1:00PM
Nov 12, 2022
Lauren Austin: Life In Quilts
Polk Museum of Art
at Florida Southern College
Lakeland, FL
*Exhibit runs until: March 12, 2023
