page_title: Ebony Patterson
hierarchical_section_title: Ebony Patterson
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of the Artist
context_page_description: Ebony G. Patterson is a Jamaican-born visual artist and educator. She is known for her large and colorful tapestries created our of various materials such as, glitter, sequins, fabric, toys, beads, faux flowers, jewelry, and other embellishments, her "Gangstas for Life series" of dancehall portraits, and her garden-inspired installations.
  She has taught at the University of Virginia, Edna Manley College School of Visual and Performing Arts and is a tenured Associate Professor in Painting and Mixed Media at the University of Kentucky. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Jamaica, the United States, and abroad.
context_section_description: Ebony G. Patterson (born 1981, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican-born visual artist and educator. She is known for her large and colorful tapestries created our of various materials such as, glitter, sequins, fabric, toys, beads, faux flowers, jewelry, and other embellishments, her "Gangstas for Life series" of dancehall portraits, and her garden-inspired installations.
  She has taught at the University of Virginia, Edna Manley College School of Visual and Performing Arts and is a tenured Associate Professor in Painting and Mixed Media at the University of Kentucky. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Jamaica, the United States, and abroad.
caption: Patterson in 2010
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