Coulter Fussell

Water Valley, MS

Coulter Fussell was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia, an old textile town. She is the youngest family quilter, hailing from multi-generations of seamstresses and quilters. She produces boundary pushing quilt-works using old, discarded and donated textiles as her sole materials. Taught to quilt by her mother, she relies on the painterly quality inherent in used textiles to bring depth, character and story to her work. She makes quilts to experiment with the push and pull between craft’s functionality and form while addressing truths of poverty, disparity of luck, the relationship between force and power, notions of faux romanticism and false nostalgia, the physical evidence of hard work, and the miracle that is sight and touch. Walking a compositional balance, she uses the standardized and purposeful restraint of quilt patterning to self-edit what would otherwise be a full and total leap into expressionistic abstraction.



Coulter lives in Water Valley, Mississippi.⠀

Artist Website

www.coulterfussell.com