SHENEQUA

Holding Space: Five Years of a Creative Return | Thursday, February 12, 7 PM EST

SHENEQUA is an Afro-Caribbean multidisciplinary artist, Teaching Artist, and founder of Weave Your Dreams Into Reality Studios LLC. She shares her stories with the world, one thread at a time, through the traditional craft of weaving, her familial background, conversations with others, and her experiences in Ghana. She has collaborated on the Identity Column III with Germane Barnes: Columnar Disorder at The Art Institute of Chicago museum in Chicago, IL and exhibited her works Wove at 108 Contemporary in Tulsa, OK, in Continuum at Textile Center: Joan Mondale and Mary Giles Galleries in Minneapolis, MN, and UNCONVENTIONAL: THE LEGACY OF JOSEPH BEUYS at Goethe Pop Up in Kansas City, MO to name a few. SHENEQUA’s professional achievements include being a 2022 For Freedoms Fellow from For Freedoms in New York, NY, and a Center for Craft Career Advancement Fellow from the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC. She has also been recognized as a Featured Artist for Ties that Bind in American Craft Magazine.