Jeanne Medina Le
Jeanne Medina Le is a Los Angeles-based artist who uses textile, the body, and installation to perform artistic research. She considers her production a continuous process which attempts to learn and decolonize the fixed and fluid spaces of her filipina-american identity. She is interested in the language, meaning, and knowledge embodied in textiles that resonate in the broader ecology of human-ing. Her current projects include the Interpretive Commons for Embodied Textiles and Tomorrow, Asteroid.
Personal Website: www.jeanne-medina-le.studio
- BFA in Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Post-Baccalaureate in Fashion, Body, and Garment, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- MFA in Fiber, Cranbrook Academy of Art
- Toby Devan Lewis Award at Cranbrook Academy of Art
- Fountainhead Fellowship in Craft & Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University
Jeanne has worked with the Highland Support Project and fair-trade weaving organization, Pixan, in Xela, Guatemala to develop textile designs with indigenous Mayan weavers. She has been Artist-in-Residence at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Caldera, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Pine Meadow Ranch, and University of Oregon. Her exhibitions include Interpretive Center for Embodied Textiles solo-exhibition at the Alice Gallery in Seattle; GARB at ArtCenter Pasadena; International Fiber Art Fair in Seoul, Korea; Ancestral Offerings solo-exhibition at Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA; and Discursive at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, OR. Her work is in the permanent collection at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, MI and the Oak Spring Garden Foundation Rachel “Bunny” Mellon Collection in Upperville, VA.
