Occupation: Environmental Artist, Craftsman Media: Batik, Monotype. Born Fayetteville, NC, Mar 20, 1952.
Education E Carolina Univ, Greenville, NC, BS (textiles & interior design), 74. Arrowmont Sch Crafts, Univ Tennessee, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 75-76. Univ Georgia, Surface Design Southeast, 77, with Chungi Choo. private study with Fred Andrade & Dr Orrin Pilkey.
Teaching Positions Instr batik, Textile Mus, Washington, DC, summer 84 & 96; instructor, World Batik Conf, Boston, 2005; instructor, Gibbes Mus Art, Charleston, South Carolina, 2006; instructor, The Australian Forum for Textile Arts, Horsham & Orange, New South Wales, Australia, 2007.
Business and Professional Positions Design consultant, City Charleston; lectr, AATCC Symp, Smithsonian Institution; plus numerous lectures at museums & conferences.
Commissioned Works Charleston Waterways (74yardsx36" silk sculpture), Charleston Int Airport, South Carolina, 89; Ridges & Rivers (60"x144" & two 3'x16' drapes silk sculpture), Symmes Libr, Greenville, South Carolina, 90; Charleston Coastline (5'9"x18'9" batik on silk), Charleston Visitors Center, South Carolina, 91; East Coast USA & West Coast USA (7'x4' batiks on silk), America Embassy of Thailand, Bangkok, 95; Global Perception (876 sq ft silk sculpture), CSC HQ, Columbia, South Carolina, 99; Beyond Fort Johnson (three 21'x3' panel silk sculpture), Hollings Marine Laboratory, Charleston, South Carolina, 2002; and others.
Public Works Smithsonian Institution, Nat Air & Space Mus, Washington; Nat Aeronautics & Space Admin, Washington; America Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand; George Washington Univ; New England Aquarium; NASA; First Union Nat Bank; Charleston Int Airport; Roper Hosp.
Exhibitions Solo exhibs, Islands from the Sky, Surroundings, New York, 82, Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, 85, Islands from the Sky, Gibbes Mus Art, 89, A Celebration of Barrier Islands, Duke Univ Mus Art Nat Science Found, 99 & Nat Acad Sci, 2001, Naturescapes, Massachusetts Audubon Visual Arts Center, Canton, Massachusetts, 2005, Silk Tableaus, Peabody Essex Mus, Salem, Massachusetts, 2005; Group exhibs, Batik Exhib, Donnell Libr, New York, 85; Earth Views, Nat Air & Space Mus, Washington, 86; Contemporary Batik Artists, Southern Ohio Mus, Portsmouth, 90; Aerial Inspirations, Nat Air & Space Mus, Washington, 94-95; Fashion is a VERB, Mus Fashion Inst Technol, New York, 95; Wax Eloquent, Massachusetts Coll Art, Boston, 2005; Celebrating Women Artists of the Lowcountry, Wells Gallery, Kiawah, South Carolina, 2005; Naturescapes: Silk Batiks by Mary Edna Fraser, Univ NC, Charlotte, 2005; Deltas, Barrier Islands & Beyond, Univ Oklahoma, Norman, 2006; Silk Perspective, Hersham Regional Art Gallery, Australia, 2007; Mapping the Territory, Craft Alliance, St Louis, Missouri, 2007; and others.
Bibliography Hank Burchard (author), A Seamless Show of Fabric, Washington Post, 9/9/94; Diane M Bolz (author), Lofty Perspectives: The Silk Batiks of Mary Edna Fraser, Smithsonian Mag, 11/94; Aida Rogers (author), Spiritual Link: Artists Join to Save the Earth with their Shared Creativity, Chicago Tribune, 12/17/97; Susan Haynes (author), Artist With an Altitude, Coastal Living Mag, 9/2000; Bijal P Trivedi (author), Flying Artist Preserves Beauty of Shifting Barrier Islands, Nat Geographic Today, 6/2003; Turner Studios (TV), Batik Artist, Southern Living, Episode 517, 10/2003; Harold Palmer (author), A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands, Oceanography, 8/2004.
Publications Contribr, Artcraft, 80; Art with architecture in mind, America Inst Architects, 2/91; Textile Designs: Ideas and Applications, PBC Int, 92; Women & Flight, Bulfinch Press, 97; contributor, A Celebration of the Worlds Barrier Islands, Columbia Univ Press, 2003; coauthor, What the Water Gives Me, BookSurge Publ, 2004.
Honors and Awards Third Place, Nat Air & Space Mus, 86; Third Place, Eros Data Center, 98; South Carolina Art Coun Fellow, 98.
Memberships Surface Design Association.
Areas of Interest Music, poetry, sculpture, science & travel.
Address Post Office Box 12250 Charleston South Carolina 29422
