Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, her rooted heritage spans back to the Propino/Proctor family in the nation's oldest city St. Augustine, Florida and the Gullah Geeche of South Carolina.

Lisa holds a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University as well as a Master in Educational Leadership from the University of Central Florida. She became an elementary teacher, where she developed a true love of history and storytelling. Naturally, she was drawn to the art of quilting, as it is the oldest tradition of storytelling.

Rooted in her Gullah Geechee ancestry and family lineage in St. Augustine, Florida, she is a heritage quilter who transforms repurposed textiles and objects into works that preserve memory, culture, and legacy. Her quilts honor the hands that built, labored, and nurtured everyday life while exploring themes of home, migration, and belonging.

Each piece is composed of recycled garments and found materials—objects that might otherwise be discarded—reimagined into works that carry memory, resilience, and meaning. Her work traces the places her ancestors inhabited, from waterways and homesteads to historic towns, grounding each work in lived experience, cultural continuity, and ancestral geographies.

Currently, she is a 2025–2026 Studio Artist at the Art & History Museums of Maitland in Maitland, Florida, a National Historic Landmark in Central Florida known for its rich artistic and cultural legacy.

Education

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Master of Education in Educational Leadership

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL

Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education

Art Residency

2025 - 2026

• Art and History Museums of Maitland

Exhibitions

2025

• Zora Neale Hurston Inaugural Summit, Barnard College, New York City

• Eatonville History Preservation Project / Orlando Memory - Permanent Display

  www.orlandomemory.org

• Tide to the Land - Bluffton Heritage Center - Bluffton, SC

2024

• Cultural Sustainability and Legacy Planning for Craft Artist Project,Orange County Regional History Center / Smithsonian Museum for Folklife

• Orlando Science Center - Art Speaks: A Celebration of Black Artist

2023

• Atlanta Quilt Festival- Atlanta, Georgia

• Facets of Freedom - A Celebration of Juneteenth

• Eatonville Library - Women's History Month “You Gave Me Wings: Inspirations of femininity, womanhood, strength and resilience

• Orlando Science Center - Art Speaks: A Celebration of Black Architectures, Artist and Designers

• Lake Sumpter State College - "A Taste of Culture

• Hannibal Square Heritage Center - The Story Quilters of Hannibal Square

2022

• Hannibal Square Heritage Center - I Am Enough - Curator

• Orlando Science Center - Art Speaks: A Celebration of Black Architectures, Artist and Designers

• City of Orlando - Black History Month Art Exhibit -Quilts, Photography & Folk Art: Intergeneration

• Orlando Museum of Art - Onija

2021

• African American Museum of the Arts - Deland

Teaching

2025

Campbell-Wright Interns -Quilt Workshop

Penn Center

St. Helena Island, SC