Sylvia Hernandez

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Born on the Lower East Side and raised in Williamsburg Brooklyn, Sylvia Hernandez’s love affair with art dates back to high school, when she discovered a talent for drawing and painting while attending the High School of Art & Design in NYC.

Today as a celebrated and self-taught master quilter, she is able to pinpoint how illustration brought her to her current fascination with fabric and sewing machines. Sylvia creates timeless, handcrafted works that address community and human rights issues. She has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally as a part of a number of high profile art exhibitions including Brooklyn Quilts Show, the Made in New York Quilt Show, the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Journey of Hope in America: Quilts Inspired by President Barack Obama, and most recently in We Are the Story: A Visual Response to Racism and currently in Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories. Her work has appeared in multiple publications including the New York Times.

She is currently the president of the Quilters of Color of NYC and the former co-president of the Brooklyn Quilters Guild. She is also a member of the Women of Color Network and is currently a teaching artist at El Puente Academy of Peace and Justice HS. She has quilts in the private collection of Spike Lee, Dr Carolyn Mazloomi, and the Fine Arts Museum of Boston. She works out of her home studio in Williamsburg; where she currently resides with her husband, Miguel.