Karen Hampton

"As an artist of color, I have made a life long commitment to creating artwork that responds to the lives of my ancestors. My lens is anthropology and I study my own genealogy. I travel in my ancestor’s footsteps, I walk the roads where they lived, explored the plantations where they were enslaved, I am the storyteller. As their medium I provide a vehicle for my ancestor’s spirits to transcend history and remain as historical memory. My medium is cloth -- whether digitally printed, hand woven or aged linens -- pieces are imbued with the hopes and visions of African American lives, telling their stories from a maternal perspective." - Karen Hampton, 2014

Source: https://www.kdhampton.com/about

Listen to this podcast featuring Karen Hampton, produced by Heritage Future as part of Wilkinson College's Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Environmental Justice.

Link: https://public-podcasting.simplecast.com/episodes/411-karen-hampton