“I am drawn to Judeo-Christian archetypal imagery such as pilgrimage, lamentation, betrayal, and rebirth because I feel compelled by their mythic and consuming drama. I want to "bear witness" to the dispossessed and marginalized within our own midst. Through my imagery, I hope to disrupt complacency and bestir compassion.

Constance Pierce was awarded a Hoffberger Fellowship for MFA graduate study at the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore. She has served on the fine art faculty of St. Bonaventure University (NY) and has exhibited regionally, nationally, and in Japan.

Her sketchbooks were twice exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC) and her art resides in their collection, as well as in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art (DC), the National Gallery of Art rare book collection (DC), the Yale Center for British Art prints and drawings archives (CT), and Spike Lee Filmworks Headquarters (NYC) among many others.