Gracie Jeffers is a multidisciplinary artist from and based in Brooklyn whose practice investigates Black and Afro-American cultural identity through archival research, material history, and ancestral memory. Drawing from her Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean heritage, Jeffers explores how cultural identity is transmitted across generations through family histories, oral traditions, storytelling, and inherited forms of making. Working across mediums, she engages both institutional and personal archives to examine how histories are documented, interpreted, and preserved, approaching art itself as a living archive capable of holding memory, challenging historical narratives, and creating records for future generations.

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Grounded in what she describes as "ancestral labor," Jeffers revisits and recontextualizes artistic traditions historically connected to her ancestors, including quilting, metalwork, and other craft-based practices, while interrogating the social and historical hierarchies that have shaped disciplines such as painting and drawing. Through these material investigations, her work considers making as an act of preservation and cultural continuation. By bridging traditional practices with contemporary artistic inquiry, Jeffers creates works that honor lineage while contributing to the evolving histories and futures of Black diasporic life.