Mercy Hawkins received her MFA in Art Studio at University of California, Davis in 2021. She received her BA in Art Studio from California State University Sacramento in 2018 with a minor in History. Presently she works at the Before Columbus Foundation in Oakland, CA, a non-profit promoting multicultural literature for fifty years. She works in painting, sculpture and fiber, exploring craft-based manipulation of materials. Her work seeks to bridge and reconsider the relationship between the human world and the natural world. Recent drawings and sculptural work investigate patterning, rhythmic repetition, drawing on characteristics of script to explore vibrational pulses of the natural world. She is currently a graduate fellow in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito and her work will be featured in New American Paintings, MFA Annual.