Jewel Edwards is a public school art teacher and visual artist based in Greenville, SC. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and is an alumna from the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, SC.

As an interdisciplinary artist, Edwards uses photography, video, screenprinting, and painting to explore her self-identity and its relation to Black identity and womanhood.

​She has exhibited at Friday Arts Project, Art Fields, Lyndon House Arts Center, and several times in the Rutledge and Lewandowski Gallery at Winthrop University. Throughout her time at Winthrop University, Edwards has received several awards including Outstanding Achievement in the Department of Fine Arts Award, Outstanding Accomplishments in Printing Making and Expanded Media, and 1st and 3rd place at Winthrop’s Undergraduate Juried Exhibition.

-Theresa “Reese” Nguyen