Jillian Mumley
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For Them
The history of female and gender-non-conforming makers is a history of women pushing boundaries and blurring lines to carve their own paths in the world, of women coming together and curating community in order to survive. This is my lineage, a little-known but mighty line of female woodworkers, textile artists, and craftpeople.This body of work is for them. It is a quiet, rhythmic, resting place for every woman whose hard work benefits me. A place to honor their quiet labor. A monument that recognizes what was long overlooked, the domestic and artistic work that still often goes unnoticed.
It is for the strangers who forged the paths I walk today, as well as the women who raised me. They oriented the frame from which I see. They shaped my view of myself and the world around me. Each of them is a little piece of the village that made me, the support system that carries me through the world.
Bio
Jillian Mumley is a wood worker based in Portland, Maine and raised in coastal Massachusetts. Mumley will receive her Bachelors of Fine Arts in wood working and furniture design from Maine College of Art & Design in May of 2026. Working in nontraditional furniture forms allows Mumley to explore her feminine and queer identities as she creates work that portrays life in her twenties. Mumley brings joy to woodworking and furniture by experimenting with shape, color, and material. She infuses her work with the playful and emotional parts of herself and the people she loves.