The Artist Project: Sheila Hicks

Artist Sheila Hicks reflects on The Organ of Mary, a prayer book by Ethiopian scribe Baselyos in this episode of The Artist Project.
From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"This is the kind of art you take home with you, metaphorically. You take it into your life; it becomes yours."

Artist Sheila Hicks reflects on "The Harp of Praise," a prayer book by Ethiopian scribe Baselyos in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Sheila Hicks, born in 1934, is an American textile artist.

A textile by the artist Sheila Hicks made of silk, wool, and razor clam shells

Sheila Hicks (American, born Hastings, Nebraska, 1934)

Écailles, 1976

Silk, wool, razor clam shells; unframed: H. 9 1/4 × W. 8 1/4 in. (23.5 × 21 cm), framed: H. 24 × W. 16 7/16 × D. 1 1/2 in. (61 × 41.8 × 3.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Melvin Bedrick Gift, 1989 (1989.29) © Sheila Hicks


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Icon Triptych: Ewostatewos and Eight of His Disciples, Wood, tempera, cord, Amhara peoples
Amhara peoples
late 17th century
Prayer Book: Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary), Baselyos (The Ground Hornbill Master)  Ethiopian, Parchment, pigment ink, wood, leather, fiber
Baselyos (The Ground Hornbill Master)
late 17th century