Jas Mardis

Fabric & Leather Portrait Artist-Writer-Poet-Editor-Orator-NABJ GRIOT AWARD-PUSHCART PRIZE. Installations-Exhibitions-2014 Texas Literary HOF – 2026/27 Poet Laureate Lewisville,TX

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2026 New Poetry
A Portfolio
Ancestral Sea Rising In Depth
Available
Behind Our Quilts
Buy_This_Art
Candleholders
Commission INFO
Contact
Events page
Exhibition June 2024 Lewisville Grand Theater Let The Tablecloth Speak
Fire
First Squares & Old Crowns
FSP_workshop
Gees Bend Response
Home
INTHESUN_NOMA2025
Jas Mardis
Jas Mardis Art Events
JasMardisArt_NOMA
Journey Show List
Key Fobs
Leather Burned Portraits
MADEAR_NOMA2025
MardisArt940
Memory Workshop & Exhibition
newsletter
New_Fabric
Press
RaceQuilts
Satchels
Small Sculpture Series
Sons In Depth
Storytime
Supporter
Techniques
Texas Baptist Exhibition
Truck
video
WHEREFROMHERE_NOMA2025
Wishlist
Workshop: Assemblage Art Do-Over
YOUREFUNNYMISTER_NOMA2025
Series: Let The Tablecloth Speak-The Embedded DNA Storytelling in Heirloom Linens

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Jas Mardis’ 20-plus year background in broadcast radio and journalism informs his poetry/storytelling/oration, allowing him to create immersive visual installations. Mardis identifies as a "Cultural Artist" with a mission to promote Black Humanity. By embedding narrative text into permanent materials like quilting, leather and assemblage, he ensures that stories of the African Diaspora cannot be easily erased or forgotten. Mardis elevates "practical" folk crafts—like quilting and leatherwork passed down by elders—to the status of high gallery art, bridging the gap between community heritage and formal institutions. His work acts as a "documentary for the living," using art to address contemporary social issues like racial violence while celebrating cultural symbols like the "Just A Crown" series

Assemblage Art

*Originally created for "Beyond The Bar" event 2025 and now available to exhibit or collect

"Clouds On The Water" ebony wood wedge engraved

Let The Tablecloth Speak_Lewisville Grand Theatre

*Available Exhibition Sizes

Constructing Change Workshop @ Nasher Sculpture Center

Available Workshop and Team Builder

14”x14” Hanger Art Available

2014 Inducted Texas Literary Hall of Fame

Who is Jas. Mardis

Christian. Father. 2026-2027 Poet Laureate of Lewisville, TX. 2014 Inductee to The Texas Literary Hall of Fame. 2000 Pushcart Prize-Poetry. Awarded Poet & Commentator, Educator, Quilter/Narrative Tapestry Maker

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