Liv Furman

Liv Furman, Ph. D. (they/them) is a Black non-binary womanist artist, curator, educator, researcher, and memory keeper currently working on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg the Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples at Michigan State University. Their work currently explores Black womxn’s everyday practices of quilt making, memory keeping, and storytelling as methodologies of resistance, sustainability, and flourishing. Their primary mediums include multimedia and digital collage, ceramics, quilt making, and the written and spoken word. Liv is also an avid urban gardener with interests in Black ecologies studies, food justice, food sovereignty, and sustainability. 

Liv is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American and African Studies, and Assistant Project Director of the Quilt Index’s Black Diaspora Quilt History Project at Michigan State University.