About

Gracie Jeffers is a multidisciplinary artist from and based in Brooklyn whose practice investigates Black and Afro/Afro-American cultural identity through archival research, material history, and ancestral memory. Coming from both Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean heritage, Jeffers draws from personal and collective histories to explore the ways cultural transmission and identity are carried across generations.

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Working across mediums, Jeffers engages institutional archives alongside family archives, oral traditions, storytelling practices, and inherited forms of making to examine how histories are documented, interpreted, and carried forward. Central to her practice is the belief that art itself functions as an archive: a living site capable of holding memory, reimagining historical narratives, and preserving the present for future generations to inherit and contribute to.

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Through processes rooted in what she describes as “ancestral labor,” Jeffers revisits and recontextualizes mediums historically connected to her forebears, including metalwork, quilting, and other craft-based traditions, while also interrogating the historical and social status attached to disciplines such as painting and drawing. Her work considers how acts of making become acts of preservation, resistance, and cultural continuation.

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By bridging traditional practices with contemporary artistic inquiry, Jeffers creates works that honor lineage while contributing to the ongoing and evolving history of Black diasporic life and existence.