Wolfie E. Rawk
Wolfie E. Rawk was born in Teaneck, NJ. He obtained a BA Degree in Studio Arts at Hampshire College where he organized a Queer Artists Caucus. He moved to Philadelphia, PA in 2008 and currently works for the Mural Arts Program as an art educator.
In the spring of 2010 he worked with his students and other artists to create a by-youth for-youth resource guide in an edition of 5,000, street art and student videos revolving around the topic of safe space for youth. He is currently facilitating a series of collaborative queer quilting bees with fellow queer, transgender and allied folks in West Philadelphia with the help of a Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant. He uses fabric and embroidery to discuss the body, transgender identity, disability and trauma and healing in his work.
Awarded Grants
2009
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
Related grantees
Overview
Wolfie will lead a series of quilting bees geared towards local women, queer, and transgender artists that will create and preserve community dialogue, by fostering collaborative art making and skill-sharing. The quilts will be organized around themes of race, disability, queerness, transgender experience, and classism with an emphasis on resisting dominant oppressive social and institutional systems. These collaborative community bees will create personal and group healing, culminating in an exhibition of the work.
