Journey to Self Series: Unidentified Slave Women (L) Unidentified Slave Man (M) Harriet Tubman (R) Frederick Douglass (FR) 2008, Mixed Media Quilted Sculptures, approximately 5ft tall by 12 inched wide

Brown's work examine ways African Americans throughout a complicated yet consequential history in the United States employed the practice of quilt making and Negro spirituals to prevail over depressed conditions. Through processes that include painting, quilting, sculpting, printing and the use of spirited text Brown addresses -- while making use of family photographs, African American and Art history -- the human long-established ideas for survival and triumph in the face of racism, sexism and poverty.