Artwork Image Credit: Bryana Bibbs

Class fee includes kit required for the class. 

Kit includes: 

• 6” x 13” cardboard loom

• Yarn

• Yarn Needle

SUPPLY LIST:

• Bring items related to architecture or your favorite place (ie, curtains / keys)

About Bryana Bibbs:

Bryana Bibbs is a Chicago-based artist and educator who works at the intersections of textiles, printmaking, painting, and community-based practices. Her work is deeply informed by her personal lived experiences of trauma, grief, and loss, Bibbs earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the founder of The We Were Never Alone Project - a weaving workshop for victims and survivors of domestic violence and serves on the Surface Design Association’s Education Committee.

Recent solo exhibitions include Places (Edition 1) curated by Debra Kayes, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago, IL (2023); Changes, Chesterton Art Center, Chesterton, IN (2024); Unforeseen, 21c Museum Hotel, Chicago, IL (2024); two hundred and fifty-one days, curated by Elise Butterfield, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (2025); and Moment to Moment, The Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN (2025).

Recent group exhibitions include A More Human Dwelling Place curated by Myron Beasley, George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME (2023); Sustenance, Portland Library, Portland, ME (2023); A Love Supreme McCormick House Reimagined curated by Norman Teague & Rose Camara, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL (2024); Newcity Breakout Artists 2024 Exhibition, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL (2024); Museum of Science & Industry Black Creativity, EXPO Chicago - Booth 183, Chicago, IL (2024); piecemeal, curated by darien hunter golston, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL (2024); Beyond: Tapestry Expanded, curated by Erica Warren, The Richard E. Peeler Art Center - Depauw University, Greencastle, IN (2024); All Fiber Show, Art Center of Burlington, Burlington, IA (2025); and No One Knows All It Takes curated by Christopher Jobson and Grace Ebert, The Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI (2025) .

Awards and residencies include The Weaving Mill - Remote W.A.R.P Residency, Chicago, IL (2020); Chicago Artists Coalition - HATCH Residency, Chicago, IL (2021/22); The Lunder Institute for American Art - Summer Residential Fellowship, Waterville, ME (2022); Surf Point Foundation - Artist Residency, York, ME (2022); and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts - Winter Pentaculum - Fiber, Gatlinburg, TN (2023); Breakout Artists: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers, Newcity Magazine, Chicago, IL (2024).

Her works has been reviewed and featured in publications including, Warp & Weft Magazine, The Coastal Post, The Strategist in New York Magazine, TATTER Journal, New Visionary Magazine, Newcity Magazine, Artdose Magazine, CBS 2 Chicago, Sixty Inches from Center, LUXE Interiors + Design - Chicago, and Colossal.

Recent commissions include Three H for NeoCon 2024, The Design Museum of Chicago, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Collections include Delta Airlines, Inc. and private collections.

Bibbs has taught with organizations and institutions such as, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Awakenings Art, Chicago, IL; The Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL; The Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago, IL; The Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME; and The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL.

Bibbs lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.