Sam Fields

Sam Fields grew up in Brockton, south of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 

Her work is influenced by her lower-middle-class roots and expressed through her choice of materials, process, and content. Craft is a philosophy for Sam which acts as both resistance and a model for change, a tool for pushing against current structures of inequitable power.. She uses the language of textiles to create sculptures, performances, and spaces of engagement.She is drawn to the language of cloth because of its complicated, often disturbing, and yet, deeply empowering history; for its involvement with every aspect of humanity, from origin stories to the support or subversion of political structures; how it informs our economic systems, technology, personal history, and identity. 

Sam received her MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and her undergraduate degree from Massachusetts College of Art; and is currently a Lecturer of Sculpture at The School of Museum of Fine Arts |Tufts University. She has been supported through grants from the Now + There Accelerator program, the City of Boston Transformative Public Art program.