Destiny Garner
Preferred Pronouns: She / Her / Hers
MFA Socially Engaged Art
Artist Statement
Destiny Garner is a multidisciplinary problem solver born and raised in Philadelphia. In 2019, she received her BFA from Moore College of Art & Design with a major in Fashion Design and a minor in Business. Throughout her years studying fashion design, she pushed and questioned the boundaries and ideologies within the fashion industry.
Destiny is now a graduating MFA candidate in Socially Engaged Art at Moore College of Art and Design. Within her work, you'll see passion for community change, engagement and the enlightenment of social and environmental problems. Common key terms that present themselves in her work are community, resources, material and upcycling, artist-social worker, and creative problem solving. The work she produces explores and questions social and political systems that disrupt the living and lifestyle in Black neighborhoods. As a result, she aims to provide neighborhoods and affinity groups with resources to help foster and enhance the relationship that residents have with their environment. She is currently exploring the ways in which fostering creative environments and art making can provide Black communities with more options and opportunities to thrive in their lived experience.
IMAGE GALLERY: MAPPING VACANT SPACE
Click through to enlarge and view individual artworks from Destiny's MFA thesis project.
