Quincy Harding

Spring Breeze Collection

The Artist

Quincy Harding is a Black and Wampanoag illustrator, designer, and emerging multidisciplinary artist based in San Diego County. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design to receive her BFA in Illustration. Working across fashion, textiles, illustration, and community art, Harding explores identity, vulnerability, healing, and transformation. Harding describes this visual style as “Moody Glamour,” bringing beauty and emotional storytelling to experiences that are personal, imperfect, and relatable. Nature and cycles of renewal are recurring influences, reflected in Harding’s Native name, Spring Breeze. Raised in a family of artists, Harding approaches materials with resourcefulness, often using thrifted and repurposed objects. Projects include a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women awareness billboard, a Wampanoag cultural coloring book, and artwork installed in rehabilitation spaces. Work within Wampanoag and San Diego Native communities has deepened Harding’s commitment to cultural connection, Indigenous representation, and creating opportunities for others to see themselves reflected in art.

Quincy Harding

The Project

Quincy Harding will create the Spring Breeze Collection, a body of wearable artworks connecting contemporary fashion and illustration with traditional Native artistic practices. Rooted in Harding’s reconnection with Wampanoag heritage, the project will explore how clothing can carry identity, history, and cultural knowledge. Harding plans to learn directly from Native artists and cultural knowledge holders, exploring beading, weaving, textile work, and wampum—the carved and polished shell beads used in Wampanoag cultural traditions. These teachings will inform designs that incorporate Harding’s “Moody Glamour” style, combining fashion, beauty, storytelling, and emotional expression. Reclaimed fabrics, reworked textiles, and natural materials will be used whenever possible. Photographs, sketches, and written reflections will document the process of learning and developing the collection. The finished pieces will be presented in an immersive exhibition, potentially alongside illustrations and larger artworks. Planned hands-on craft stations will invite visitors to explore selected techniques that informed the work. By sharing both the collection and its development, Harding hopes to increase Indigenous visibility, encourage cultural connection, and show how traditional knowledge can inspire contemporary creative expression.

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