Bryana Bibbs is a Chicago-based artist who tells life stories through weaving. Here, she talks about how she turned to weaving after initially studying painting, how her early works were made to process the trauma of domestic abuse, how she established the We Were Never Alone workshop project to help other abuse victims, the fibres she uses, how environmental sustainability has been a theme of a series of works, the Journal series in which she weaves a visual diary, and about her close relationship with her late grandparents that spawned her current exhibition.
Bryana Bibbs talking with Bob Chaundy
Accompanying images on consideringart.com
That Bad Space
Numb
After
Alone Against It All
Two works dedicated to Bryana’s grandparents at her Two Hundred and Fifty One Days Days show
All images are © Bryana Bibbs
Two Hundred and Fifty One Days is showing at The Chicago Cultural Center until 18 May 2025
Music: Ibiza by MBB | https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial