About

Frances Bradley-Vilier is a multidisciplinary artist, community activist, social entrepreneur, and educator. She earned a BFA in Illustration from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and is a candidate to earn an Executive MBA for Arts Innovation from The Global Leaders Institute. 

Bradley-Vilier has worked for the Murals Arts Program and as an Exhibition Coordinator at The African American Museum in Philadelphia. Her artwork has been featured in publications such as Ghubar Magazine of Paris, France; The Guardian, Black Art in America and has exhibited in galleries nationally and internationally.

In 2010, she created the art series, Womanhood or Woman’s-Hurt: The Art of Healing, an autobiographical, visual testimony of surviving sexual assault. Frances served as a delegation member to attend the Conference of Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) with Brooklyn-based, civil and human rights organization, Black Women’s Blueprint at the United Nations of Geneva, Switzerland. She was requested to present one of her pieces from her WHWH series as the visual representation of what sexual violence looks like in America. 

She has taught at schools and organizations such as: New College of Florida, The University of Michigan-Flint’s Theater and Dance Department, The American Tap Dance Foundation, The Brooklyn Waldorf School, Mark Morris Dance Group, Black Girls Rock!: Year Round Program, Black Girls Rock! Queen’s Camp of Leadership and Excellence; Carol Morgan School of Santo Domingo, Dunyah Zaidam Dance School of Brazil, Charlotte Brookson Academy of the Performing Arts (SXM), Sister Magda Primary School (SXM), St. Maarten Montessori, Art Saves Lives Foundation and the National Institute of Arts (SXM). She now serves as the Artistic Director of Tapology, Inc., Michigan’s nationwide community based arts organization, and is thrilled to serve as the R.E.A.C.H. Learning and Development Facilitator at The University of South Florida’s Center for Partnerships for Arts Integrated Teaching.