Kimberley Pierce Cartwright

Join dìèdìè as we host quilt maven, Kimberly Pierce Cartwright on Sat. Apr. 25th for a half-day of slow, Black hand-quilting. Learn more about our teacher below or here: https://kimberleypiercecartwright.com/

Bio:

Kimberley Pierce Cartwright is an art quilter and educator whose work transforms reclaimed textiles into richly layered narratives about memory, resilience, and the African American experience. Working primarily with repurposed fabrics, paint, and found embellishments, Cartwright creates quilts that read as intimate histories—bringing personal and communal stories into dialog through texture, color, and stitched mark-making.

Her work has been shown at the Nasher Museum at Duke University, Hayti Heritage Center, and North Carolina Central University, among other regional and national venues. She has completed artist residencies with the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South (2022–2023) and Cassilhaus (2024), where she expanded her practice and led community projects that bridge art-making and social connection. In 2023 and 2025 Cartwright served as director of Kindred Spirits: A Convergence of African American Quilters in Durham, NC—an exhibition and convening that garnered coverage by The New York Times.

An experienced teacher and organizer, Cartwright leads workshops and public programs that emphasize sustainable materials, intergenerational storytelling, and creative reclamation. Her quilts are held in private and institutional collections and continue to be shown in exhibitions that center craft as cultural testimony.