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Leah Ra'chel Gipson

Interdisciplinary Artist & Scholar
2022 Make A Wave
Visual Arts

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

  •  Leah Ra'chel Gipson artwork "Black Girlhood Altar," Project Row Houses
  •  Leah Ra'chel Gipson artwork "Black Girlhood Altar," Project Row Houses
  •  Person surrounded by wooden structure hangs window like panes
  •  Person paints paper on the sidewalk with a roller brush
  •  Six images sit in windows. Each image has a different colorful pattern.

Leah Ra'chel Gipson has crowd-funded a project with 3AP

  • Staring at the Dark

    • $9,348 raised of $6,000 goal
    • 0 Days 0:00:00 LEFT
      • 3Arts matched
      • 156% funded

    STRETCH GOAL! Thanks to the caring and generous support of the community, we have secured our first milestone goal! With a new stretch goal of $20,000 we will be able to continue film production in June. All contributions to reach …

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