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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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Techniques

old-sam-inkodye

old-sam-inkodye

Image Printing with a light sensitive and reactive Dye

Pyrography Portrait on Leather

Leather pyrography

Fabric and leather art

Thread Painting

Heirloom Linens

Leather Pyrography

Tie-Dye

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"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"

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  • 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
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  • Jas Mardis Art Events
  • JasMardisArt_NOMA
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  • Key Fobs
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  • MADEAR_NOMA2025
  • MardisArt940
  • Memory Workshop & Exhibition
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  • RaceQuilts
  • Satchels
  • Small Sculpture Series
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  • Supporter
  • Techniques
  • Texas Baptist Exhibition
  • 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 MardisArt

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

African Twins Luck
The Hummingbird
The Walking Man
"She Is Forgetting Her Beauty"
"Clouds On The Water" ebony wood wedge engraved

Let The Tablecloth Speak_Lewisville Grand Theatre

*Available Exhibition Sizes

Let The Tablecloth Speak_1

Constructing Change Workshop @ Nasher Sculpture Center

Available Workshop and Team Builder

Nasher Sculpture Center
Nasher Sculpture Center

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

My BLOG: 3daysinthecity http://wp.me/p4CBHv-fp

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