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Biographical Sketch |
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Gloria Gipson Suggs, a native and resident of Marshall
County Mississippi, attended Henry Elementary School near Slayden and
graduated from St. Mary’s High School in Holly Springs, Gloria’s career as an educator was
brought to a sudden halt after several accidents. So, she turned to
performing, writing and drawing. These were the things Gloria loved doing as
a child. Collectively called The Reflection Series, the folk art
drawings provide movement and imagery to poetry in Gloria’s book
called, Reflections in Black and white with Shades of Red, Yellow, and
Brown. These images relate to everyday landscapes and people of yester
year. Old churches, home sites, and
schools that Gloria remember from childhood, heard about or saw in
photographs at reunions and gatherings, act as inspiration in her work.
Crayon is the primary medium and primitive impressionism is the style used in
her folk art drawings. Gloria likes to do things the old-fashioned way. Her
African and Indian ancestors used pigments from plants and the earth as their
media and cloth, wood, and brown paper as their canvases. Crayon produces the
same natural and vibrant colors when mixed with other media on paper in her
art. Radio
and television stations, newspapers, and magazines have interviewed Suggs
about her work through out the southeast. Channel 9 of Tupelo, Fox 13 of
Memphis, WMC TV of Memphis, and WURC of Holly Springs, MS. Gloria’s
work has been exhibited in Ida B. Wells Museum and Marshall County Museum of
Holly Springs, MS, Martin Luther King Civil Rights Museum, The Black Arts
Gallery, D. Edge Art Gallery in Memphis, TN, and the DuSable Museum in
Chicago, IL. Gloria has participated in arts and crafts festivals in Chicago,
IL, Nashville, TN, Carthage, MS, Corinth, MS, Holly Springs, MS, Senatobia,
MS, South Haven, MS, Germantown, TN and the Pink Palace Museum Craft show of
Memphis, TN. The Commercial Appeal, The South Reporter, and The Busy Bee have
written about Suggs’ work. The B.J. Chain Public Library in Olive
Branch, MS hosted Suggs’ work. Oh yes, Gloria was a movie extra in The
Client in 1990.Gloria’s work is registered under the business name of
GGS Gloria's work is marked under the name of GGS |
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Copyright © 2006 GGS