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Remembrances of Plano’s Historic Black Douglass Community

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  • Commission INFO
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  • Exhibition June 2024 Lewisville Grand Theater Let The Tablecloth Speak
  • First Squares & Old Crowns
  • FSP_workshop
  • Gees Bend Response
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  • Key Fobs
  • Leather Burned Portraits
  • MADEAR_NOMA2025
  • Male Note Cards
  • MardisArt940
  • Memory Workshop & Exhibition
  • New_Fabric
  • Press
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  • Satchels
  • September_Art
  • Small Sculpture Series
  • Sons In Depth
  • Supporter
  • Texas Baptist Exhibition
  • 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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Lewisville Library Fall Exhibition

Let The Tablecloth Speak_Lewisville Grand Theatre

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Constructing Change Workshop @ Nasher Sculpture Center

Nasher Sculpture Center
Nasher Sculpture Center

Dallas Love Field: Jas Mardis – Home

Quilted Fabric Art: Sons of Her Thunder-Not Another Boy Harmed
Quilted Fabric Art: Sons of Her Thunder-Not Another Boy Harmed
Three Crown Statues
Three Crown Statues
Leather Pyrography Free Standing Portraits
Leather Pyrography Free Standing Portraits
Suspicions__Sculpture
Suspicions__Sculpture
Dallas Love Field 2nd Exhibition June 1-July 30, 2020
Dallas Love Field 2nd Exhibition June 1-July 30, 2020
All items for 2nd Exhibition

Dallas Main Library 2020: “Let The Tablecloth Speak”

Exhibition Poster
Exhibition Poster
Jas. Mardis
Jas. Mardis
"Old Man's Cotton" Jas. Mardis
“Old Man’s Cotton” Jas. Mardis
Artist/Visitor
Artist/Visitor
Visitors1
Visitors1
Visitors2
Visitors2
Visitors3
Visitors3
Visitors
Visitors
"Folks From The WhatNOT Shelf"
“Folks From The WhatNOT Shelf”

Written & Witnessed Exhibition 2019

Entry
Entry
Window Panel
Window Panel
Guests
Guests
Guests
Guests
Artists
Artists
"The Forgotten" Jas. Mardis Sculpture
“The Forgotten” Jas. Mardis Sculpture
Andrea & Guest
Andrea & Guest
Visitors
Visitors
Guests
Guests
Guests
Guests

The Holocaust Museum of Houston exhibiting: “Am I Human to You Yet? : The Return of the African Dodger”

Artisit
Artisit
Exhibition Intro
Exhibition Intro
Description for my Piece
Description for my Piece
Conversation at the piece
Conversation at the piece

In Private Collection after the Tour: Quilting The World’s Conscience

Cruelty Comes For Us All
Cruelty Comes For Us All
Curator, Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi and Jas
Curator, Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi and Jas
Poster for Exhibition
Poster for Exhibition
Details of Lynching hands
Details of Lynching hands
Austin, TX Exhibition 2/21/2019
Austin, TX Exhibition 2/21/2019
Exhibition Narrative for "Cruelty"
Exhibition Narrative for “Cruelty”

2014 Inductee of The Texas Literary Hall of Fame

Speech
Speech
The 2014 Inductee Award
The 2014 Inductee Award
Program
Program

Who is Jas. Mardis

Christian. Father. 2014 Inductee to The Texas Literary Hall of Fame. Awarded Poet & Commentator, Educator, Quilter/Narrative Tapestry Maker

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