Mary Edna at TedXCharleston: CurrentsFebruary 19th, 2019
Mary Edna's artwork will be featured as two 16' x 12' backdrops for the upcoming TedXCharleston: Currents, an all-day event including live talks, performances, and workshops, happening April 10th, 2019 at the Charleston Music Hall...
Recent PressJanuary 28th, 2019
"We live in a time where, like Newton's, fact is questioned and scoffed. Perhaps the images will help open windows into minds presently shuttered. Education enlightens and our future depends on honest conversations based in empirical reality." -MEF in E-Squared Magazine, Issue #4 "Aestivus" 2018 [Image: Hurricane Katrina 50.75" x 53.75" batik on silk]
Winter Studio Gathering with Charleston Waterkeeper & Audubon SCDecember 3rd, 2018
Mary Edna invites you to view new oils, batiks, silk rugs and scarves, as well as sculpture by fellow artist Jeff Kopish. Rock & roll with Grey Area Band and enjoy offerings from Clammer Dave's, Holy City Brewing, plus chili, wine, fire and fun! Tuesday, December 4th, 5-9 PM @ 1723 Oak Point Road, Charleston, SC 29412 (Park across the street at Harris Teeter and follow the twinkling lights...)
SPIN @ Arrowmont with Reba FraserOctober 26th, 2018
Reba Fraser is my new assistant and talented daughter. As a colorist and designer she helped students at the Silk Painters International Festival understand batik. We will be teaching together in Australia 2021!
Silk Painters International workshops at ArrowmontOctober 18th, 2018
It was a blast teaching two classes of "Mapping Your Personal Landscape" batik on silk at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN, for the Silk Painters International Festival, October 5th - 12th...
Two Talks Next WeekAugust 10th, 2018
Mary Edna Fraser Celebrates Belle’s Birthday @ Hobcaw Barony Discovery Center; Thursday, August 16th from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm; $50 / Person. Limited to 90. Climate Change Lecture: How Art Can Inspire Change with artist Mary Edna Fraser @ One Hundred Miles Savannah Office, 2424 Drayton Street, Unit B, Savannah, GA 31401; Friday, August 17th at 6:30; Free, but donations help to support OHM’s education and advocacy programs.
Family TiesMay 14th, 2018
The Southern gallery and The Vendue Art Hotel are pleased to present "Family Ties," an exploration of the interconnectedness of a family of makers: the matriarch, batikist, printmaker, and oil painter, Mary Edna Fraser, younger daughter and multimedia artist, Reba West Fraser, and elder daughter and performance artist, Labanna Babalon. This is their first exhibition as a family.
The Magic DolphinApril 4th, 2018
Mary Edna Fraser is quoted on the jacket of The Magic Dolphin: A Young Human's Guide to Beaches, Sea Level Rise and Living with the Sea, by Charles Pilkey with Orrin Pilkey.
On the CoversMarch 20th, 2018
Mary Edna is pleased to contribute her artwork to appear on the jackets of two recent publications. The first is Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine DeLucia (Yale University Press,) featuring "Narragansett Bay" (batik on silk, 66" x 46".) The other is On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt, by Aimée Israel-Pelletier (Indiana University Press,) featuring "Nile Delta Desert Islands" (batik on silk, 52" x 36".)
Museum of the Earth exhibition extendedFebruary 23rd, 2018
The exhibition Mapping the Planets in Silk and Sound at the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY has been extended until the first week of June. The show has been a big hit and we are pleased with the response!
