Leah Ra'chel Gipson
Leah Ra’chel Gipson is a multidisciplinary artist born in Florida and based in Chicago. Her work facilitates hyperlocal community projects that draw on Black culture and imagine critical “call and response” environments. Her work explores issues of race and gender through family history, popular media, and archives. She uses images, sound, textile, and installation rooted in traditions of Black feminism and the Black church. Her work has been featured at the South Side Community Art Center, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Project Row Houses (Houston, TX). She served on the Philadelphia Museum of Art advisory group for the 2022 exhibition, Elegy: Lament in the 20th Century, and is currently a member of the advisory group for the Chicago Arts & Health Pilot for Creative Workers.
Featured Artworks
"Black Girlhood Altar," Project Row Houses
"Black Girlhood Altar," Project Row Houses
Leah Ra'chel Gipson has crowd-funded a project with 3AP
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Staring at the Dark is a socially engaged documentary film and community project about Black ancestral and contemporary landscapes in the age of environmental catastrophe. Incorporating oral histories, digital projections, and sculptural installations of rebuilt sites now lost, this project …
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