Donna Haynes has an active interdisciplinary artist practice with a continuous exhibition schedule. She currently holds a professional art studio in Ft. Lauderdale, FL where her focus revolves around collage/drawing, installation, and sculpture.
Born in St. Petersburg in 1975, she received her MFA in sculpture from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 2001. Upon graduating from PAFA, she was recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally with private collections growing exponentially.
Donna Haynes also has over fifteen years teaching experience in the Broward County District and has been in the position of the Visual Art Curriculum Supervisor K-12 for Broward County Public Schools for the past seven years.
She is committed to the sustainment of the Arts in Broward County Public Schools and pushes for the health of our Arts programs. She strives to meet tangible measures to support Arts educators and each school’s ability to reach as many students through the Arts as possible.
Artist Statement:
I never knew who our distant second Cousin Jack was till a big rusty black trunk of his personal effects showed up at my childhood home. That trunk was my world that year. Every day was like an excavation as I carefully studied every treasure. Each object opened a world of wonder as I crocheted stories together weaving my own threads of fabricated narratives.
I am an interdisciplinary artist rooted in nostalgia and memory. My work stitches altered objects and artifacts into constructions that reveal new narratives.
My most current pieces work with self-portraiture. They tailor, tack, and fasten pieces of pandemic life together in an effort to repair time.
