ancestors and “the countless others that had no voices…” The stories she tells reflect starkly upon our shared cultural history. These pieces are part of the series Lift Every Voice and Sing, a song she listened to while working on this series. A sociologist by training, Magee began making quilts as gifts for her two daughters as each left home for college.

“I see myself as a culturally committed artist, all of my narrative work to date is a representation of some aspect of the African American experience, historically or present day. I feel that far too many African American youth have little or no knowledge of their culture, of their heritage, of what has gone before.”

“My relationship to community is on a number of different levels because it is through the art that I seek to cross and to eradicate many boundaries, to promote remembrance and learning, and to create a vehicle for dialogue.”