Coulter Fussell (b. 1977, Columbus, Georgia) is a visual artist who lives and works in Water Valley, Mississippi. Her practice spans quilting, upholstery and mixed media works that intersect photography and sculpture. Working across these forms, she produces dream-like objects that blur perspectives of love, violence and place in a rural world. Coulter integrates textile materials donated by friends and strangers with crowd-sourced video and photography, creating forms that compare global conflicts, both historical and current, with interpersonal psychodramas.

Experimental optimism, humor and the philosophy that Craft is the beginning and end of all Art guides her work. Coulter learned to quilt from her mother and make dolls from her grandmother. The rest she learned from YouTube.

Coulter spent two decades as a career diner waitress while raising her children in rural north Mississippi. During that time, she won numerous awards including the 2017 ArtsSouth Southern Prize Finalist, a 2019 United States Artist Fellowship, the 2021 Jane-Crater Hiatt Fellowship from the Mississippi Museum of Art and 2024 funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation of Visual Arts Exhibition Support Grant. Her work has been featured in 2024 art-book publication New Women’s Work: Reimagining “Feminist” Craft in Contemporary Art and Art In America. Coulter’s first solo show in New York City will take place at MARCH Gallery in June 2025. Having exhibited in numerous institutions and galleries across the South and New York City, Coulter is currently a full-time studio artist.