Contemporary Art

148: Soft Gather, Quiet Flame with Aliana Grace Bailey

In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Aliana Grace Bailey, an interdisciplinary fiber artist, designer, and care worker whose practice combines art, healing, and social impact at Vibrant Grace Studio.

Episode 146: Exploring Ancestry Through Art With Sobia Ahmad

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In this weeks episode LaChaun speaks with Sobia Ahmad, an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores how our deeply intimate struggles of belonging can inform larger conversations about migration, the tenuous notions of home, personal memory, and cultural porosity.

Episode 145: Weaving Skies with Kesiena Onosigho

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In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with one of our artists in residence Kesiena Onosigho. Kesiena's thought-provoking mixed-media collages and installations are informed by her lived experiences, curiosity, and the historic influence on arts & crafts from people within the African Diaspora.

Episode 144: New Farm and Fiber Beginnings with Michelle Brooks and LaChaun Moore

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In this week's conversation, LaChaun is switching roles to be interviewed by Michelle Brooks. LaChaun gives and update on her fiber and farming journey as well as some insights into her experieces in fiber and how they relate to Michelle's experiences as well.

Episode 135: Weaving Journals and Personal Life Struggles with Bryana Bibbs

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Bryana is a Chicago-based textile artist, painter, and art educator who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Episode 134: Weaving Monuments As Memory Signifiers with Carolina Jimenez

Contemporary Art Personal Storytelling Weaving

Carolina Jimenez is a Mexican-American textile artist and designer living in Brooklyn New York. In Carolina’s weaving practice she makes monuments as memory signifiers, and vessels into which the past is poured, molded or reshaped (woven, unraveled, or stretched).