Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier

Senior Consultant Artist

Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier has been documenting the American South and the American experience since 1989 and works both figuratively and abstractly. She researches and collages photography, painting, and writing, with primary source documents from diaries and letters, which she incorporates into her image-based mixed-media quilts, 2-D and 3-D sculptures, and mixed media works. With an aim of re-examining and re-framing historical figures, she engages her subjects through dialogue focusing on their life stories and historical incidences attached to place. She is inspired by African-American and indigenous cultural traditions as well as stories from people that she has met during her travels, which include international residencies. Her vibrant paintings explore personal investigations into movement and transformation often drawn from concepts surrounding ancestry, memory and written language. In 2011, her “Unravelling Miss Kitty’s Cloak” large quilted installation work, developed in collaboration with diverse descendants of Emory University’s enslaved and free communities of color, was the centerpiece of the welcoming home for the descendants of Miss Kitty/Catherine Body, at the university’s Slavery and the University conference.