Ambrose

In residence:

Jacksonville, Florida – October 10– November 10, 2020

Ambrose is an emerging artist from Western North Carolina with roots in Florida. She is a self-taught painter and seamstress who received her BA in African-American Studies from Yale College concentrating in arts & culture. Much of her artistic practice lends itself to experimentation: Painting and cutting up, making, undoing and re-making. She creates tactile, multi-layered and mystical scenes as a method to sew herself and the stories that she grew up hearing, reading, witnessing and imagining into the fabric of our collective consciousness. The figures she incorporates into her work morph into ancestors or angel figures weaving their stories into large-scale, quilt-like pieces with materials like silk, lace, and cotton. Her experience in liberation movement and social justice spaces across the South continues to inform her praxis as a Black, queer, southern artist who strives to create work that heals, transforms and makes tangible impact for Black and Indigenous people of color and our communities.

She recently completed a year-long residency at the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production in Utica, MS as their inaugural Artist-In-Residence. Ambrose has received numerous grants and awards for her work as an artist and in-community, including Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Gordon Grand and Cohen Public Service Fellowships, SpiritHouse Inc. Sankofa Cultural Alchemist
Award, and most recently, Alternate ROOTS Project Development Grant.

GRANTS & AWARDS:
2020, Alternate ROOTS Project Development Grant to support artistic practice
2019, Sankofa Cultural Alchemist Award from SpiritHouse, Inc. Durham, NC
2018-19, Cohen Public Service Fellowship, Yale Center for International & Professional
Experience (CIPE)
2018-19, Gordon Grand Fellowship, Yale CIPE
2017, Alternate ROOTS Project Development Grant to support youth-led organizing
2017, Interdisciplinary Arts Award, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts & Media
2014, US Presidential Scholar in the Arts and YoungArts Visual Arts Winner
June 10th 2014, City of Asheville Proclamation of “ Liana Murray Day ”

RESIDENCIES:
Artist-in-Residence, Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
Mississippi Museum of Art, Center for Art & Public Exchange, Jackson, MS
Inaugural Resident Artist and Teaching Artist, Mississippi Center for Cultural
Production with Carlton & Brandi Turner, Utica, MS

EDUCATION:
BA African-American Studies, Yale College, New Haven, CT
Study Abroad Fine Art XD, Central Saint Martins, London, England

Artist's Website: https://lianaambrosemurray.com/about