Briena Harmening uses text to explore autobiography, politics, and southerness. Employing sewing and quilting techniques, Harmening transforms everyday materials like quilts, tablecloths, and yard tarps into canvases for her screen-printed narratives and commentary. Harmening is a Florida Gulf Coast University alumna and later received her MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2010. Recently, her work was included in Aesthetics of Power at Arc Gallery in Chicago, Coined in the South: at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC and several works are included in the exhibition, In her place at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TN. Currently, she resides and teaches art at James Lawson High School in Nashville, TN.