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SHENEQUA is an Afro-Caribbean multidisciplinary Artist and Teaching Artist who received her Master of Design in Fashion, Body, & Garment at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago under the mentorship of Nick Cave. Founder of Weave Your Dreams Into Reality Studios LLC, she shares her stories with the world one thread at a time using the traditional craft of weaving, her familial background, conversations with others, and her Ghanaian experience.
She has collaborated on the Identity Column III with Germane Barnes: Columnar Disorder at The Art Institute of Chicago museum in Chicago, IL and exhibited her works Wove at 108 Contemporary in Tulsa, OK, in Continuum at Textile Center: Joan Mondale and Mary Giles Galleries in Minneapolis, MN, UNCONVENTIONAL: THE LEGACY OF JOSEPH BEUYS at Goethe Pop Up in Kansas City, MO, Deep, Far, Home at Epiphany Center for the Arts in Chicago, IL, and Performing Labor at Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, CA to name a few.
SHENEQUA's professional achievements include being a 2022 For Freedoms Fellow from For Freedoms in New York, NY, and a Center for Craft Career Advancement Fellow from the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC. She has also been recognized as a Featured Artist for Ties that Bind in American Craft Magazine. Her work has been acknowledged in the Kansas City Star, where she discussed her process of weaving synthetic hair about the African-American hair Experience. Notable lectures include the Distinguished Artist Series at James Renwick Alliance For Craft, the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, the Surface Design Association, and the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. She was 2014's Windgate Fellow of the Center for Craft and 2017-2018's recipient of the inaugural YoungArts Daniel Arsham Fellowship, presented by the Ridinger-McLaughlin Family.
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