Biography: Myrah Brown Green was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Since relocating to Brooklyn, New York in 1976, Myrah has become an Art Historian, Fiber/Surface Designer, and a Professional Quilt Artist.  In 1991 Myrah became the principal of a private day school that she founded so that she could personally educate her four children. 

Her quilts are in a number of private collections including the homes of personal collectors and academic institutions.  Myrah’s quilt exhibitions include a one woman shows at the Cacciola Gallery in New York, New York and the Back Room Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Other shows include the national traveling exhibit Threads of Faith, at the American Bible Society, Open House at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, Parallel Threads at the New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts, Six Continents of Quilts through the American Craft Museum at the Payne Weber Gallery in New York City, Quilt Inc.’s, I Remember Mama:  The Hand that Rocks the Cradle and Fine Focus 04’. 

In addition, Myrah teaches both art and history within a variety of art programs and academic institutions. She also teaches foundation piecing, piecing curves by machine, machine quilting and embroidery, color design for quilters and landscape quilting privately and in local quilts shops.  She is a docent at the Brooklyn Museum of Art where she performs tours in the galleries of Africa, Native America, 18th and 19th Century period rooms and American and European painting. Myrah’s quilts appear in a number of quilt publications. Dancing at the Tree of Life III appears in Fiber Art Magazine, Khemetic Paradise appears in Dr. Carolyn L. Mazloomi’s, Spirit of the Cloth: Contemporary African American Quilts.  And a Time to Dance appears in Mazloomi’s Threads of Faith.  She is also the author of African Rhythms, a chapter included in the book Rodale’s Successful Quilting Library: Choosing Quilting Designs. 

Myrah has a PhD in Art History focusing on:  The Presence of African Symbols in
Modern Art.  She created a lecture entitled The Presence of World Symbols in Quilt Making which was presented at the 2002 Storytellers in Cloth Conference, Connecticut, the Museum of the American Folk Art, New York in 2005 and Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York also in 2005.  Myrah is a member of the Quilter’s Guild of Brooklyn and Co-Chairperson of Women of Color Quilters Network, Inc., New York Chapter.