CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART GRADUATE DREGREE EXHIBITION 2025  
GRADUATES \\ WORK \\ ABOUT \\
SAVANNAH
FAITH
JACKSON
DEPARTMENT
FIBER
 My artistic practice is a research-based visual and material exploration of the innate spirituality embedded in Black women's everyday experiences. Through photography and fiber arts, I examine contemporary communal narratives of Black women, weaving connections to historical traditions and lived experiences. Photography serves as an archival tool, capturing and allowing for repetition of centuries-old practices like hair braiding and homemaking, while situating them firmly in the present moment.

Fiber arts is my means of traversing temporal and spatial boundaries. By incorporating materials laden with historical significance—indigo dye, cowrie shells, and Spanish moss—I investigate the profound legacy of the Atlantic Slave Trade, exploring my personal connection as a Black and Gullah Geechee American woman.

Black hair emerges in my practice as a central motif, both as a photographic subject and a physical material. Braiding represents a deeply ritualistic and communal process, a knowledge passed matrilineally through generations. Like the natural dyes, weaving, and embroidery in my work, hair braiding embodies labor, care, and intergenerational wisdom.

I explore domestic bliss not through the lens of patriarchal expectations, but as a radical womanist act of creating sanctuary. My work manifests this concept through furniture, installations, and framing, utilizing domestic spaces as metaphorical sites of resistance and love. These varied mediums and materials articulate the multilayered experiences of Black womanhood—resilient, complex, and beautifully nuanced.

My work is a testament to survival, memory, and the profound spiritual richness of the Black women's quotidian.  



Mantel Piece
2024, Archival pigment prints, stone fireplace 72" x 84"
Untitled
2024 Wool, synthetic braiding hair, Spanish moss, Variable dimensions
Untitled (self-portrait)
2024 Wool, synthetic braiding hair, cowrie shells, found wood frame, Variable dimensions
Untitled
2024, Wool, synthetic braiding hair, cowrie shells Variable dimensions