Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953) is an American artist who works with text, fabric, audio, digital images, and installation video but is best known for her work in the field of photography. Her award-winning photographs, films, and videos have been displayed in over 50 exhibitions in the United States and abroad and focus on serious issues that face African Americans today, such as racism, sexism, politics, and personal identity.

She has said, "Let me say that my primary concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and place of Afro-Americans in our country." More recently however, she expressed that “Black experience is not really the main point; rather, complex, dimensional, human experience and social inclusion ... is the real point.”

From 1991 to 1993, Carrie Mae Weems participated in the Fabric Workshop and Museum’s Artist-in-Residence Program. During that time, she experimented with several projects which culminated in the production of a folding screen, The Apple of Adam’s Eye, now part of The Fabric Workshop and Museum’s permanent collection. This work became the centerpiece for a room-sized installation of variable objects, including several series of photographs, the medium for which the artist is best known.