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