Biography: Myrah Brown Green has been teaching textile arts for twenty years and all levels of quilt-making for more than a decade. An art historian, fiber/surface designer, and professional quilt artist, Myrah’s quilts are part of a number of private collections including the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Museum in Washington, D.C. Her quilt exhibits include a one-woman show at the Cacciola Gallery in New York and the Parlor Gallery in Brooklyn, the national traveling exhibit titled Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American Quilts, and other shows titled Textural Rhythm: Constructing the Jazz Tradition and Threads of Faith at the American Bible Society, Open House at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Parallel Threads" at the New England Quilt Museum, Six Continents of Quilts at the American Craft Museum at the Payne Weber Gallery, and Cultural Continuum: From African Art to African-American Quilts at the Nathan Cummings Foundation in New York. Myrah was one of forty-four quilters asked to exhibit a quilt in celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. entitled, Quilts for Obama: An Exhibit Celebrating the Inauguration of our 44th President.

Her quilts also have appeared in numerous publications. Myrah has contributed to several books including author Carolyn Mazloomi’s Textural Rhythms: Constructing the Jazz Tradition and Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American Quilts. Pieced Symbols: Quilt Blocks from the Global Village written by Myrah is currently in press, published by Lark/ Sterling, and will be released in November 2009.

Myrah holds a PhD in Art History focusing on The Presence of African Symbols in Modern Art. She presented a lecture entitled “The Presence of World Symbols in Quilt Making” at the 2002 Storytellers in Cloth Conference, Pratt Institute in 2005, Medgar Evers College in 2007, and the Museum of the American Folk Art in 2008. She is a member of the Quilters’ Guild of Brooklyn, the American Quilt Study Group, Studio Art Quilt Associates, and the Women of Color Quilters Network, Inc., New York chapter. In 2007, Myrah co-founded Tell Mama Now, an educational program for girls and young women interested in the arts and art history. Currently, Myrah holds the title of Distinguished Lecturer of Art and Advisor to the Dean of Arts and Humanities at the City College of New York.