The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been in the minority… It will take such a small committed minority to work unrelentingly to win the uncommitted majority. Such a group may transform America’s greatest dilemma into her most glorious opportunity.
Background
Visual activist, public artist, historian, educator, lecturer, and poet is Executive Director of Creative / Strategic Planning for SPOKE Arts Inc. She was formerly Director of Education and Interpretation for the Museum of African American History, Boston/Nantucket. Frazier is a member of AAMARP, African American Artist in Residence Program at Northeastern University and is a life-long member of The Women of Color Quilter’s Network (WCQN). Frazier serves as a resident history advisor to the classical music organization, Castle of Our Skins. She is a 2025-2026 MLK Visiting Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) previously co-teaching a course. on textile texts. Frazier’s innovative art focus supports social and reparative justice and the quest for civil and human rights through the lens of five hundred years of Black and Indigenous history. She is a Boston Foundation Brother Thomas Fellow. Recently she was awarded a 2025-2026 Wagner Arts Foundation Fellowship. She is a mayoral appointment to City of Boston Reparations Task Force and a gubernatorial appointment to the State of Massachusetts Art Commission. Frazier’s residencies in Brazil, Taiwan, Costa Rica, Africa, France, and Cuba feature public community projects. Her permanently collected works are in the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery, the White House, Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design. She is a recipient of the 2023 Boston Celtics “Heroes Among Us” Award. Her selected interviews include Claudia Rankine, Dr. Margaret Burnham, Ibrahm X. Kendi, Patrisse Cullors, Tamara Payne, Robert Freeman and other literary and visual artists. Her poetry is now published in a volume, Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters Anthology, edited by City of Boston Poet Laureate, Danielle Georges.