Vickie Frémont is an artist, designer, and teacher with dual background –a Cameroonian mother and a French father– currently living and working in New York City. She has lived between two different cultures — African and European, two worlds, and speaks several languages: French, Portuguese, Italian and… Bambara (from Mali). Her formal education includes degrees in anthropology, language, teaching, as well as applied and fine arts.
Vickie Frémont is the Founder of My Hands My Tools, a New York organization which provides workshops for girls and women from marginalized communities. Frémont has offered her recycling art workshops to women from marginalized communities in Peru and Sri Lanka, and later to the women of Ambohitra as a way to rebuild a school and support the Island of Sainte Marie in Madagascar in the aftermath of cyclone Ivan. Since then, Vickie Frémont has developed the Hummingbird Project inspired by The Amerindian Legend of The Hummingbird that inspired Wangari Maathai, first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The goal of The Hummingbird Project is to bring everyone’s creativity out, and to provide participants with a break during which the hands regain their primary role: to create.
Her artistic practice, which utilizes recycled materials, has led her to be been exhibited both internationally and nationally in venues such as the National Gallery, Zimbabwe; Musée du Quai Branly, France; The United Nations; Museum of Biblical Art; and Bronx Museum in the United States.
Links:
- César Chelala. "My Hands My Tools: Bringing Art to the People": Read article here
