Photo credit by Tarik Bartel. You can find out more about their work here: www.tarikvbartel.com
crystal bi (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist working in the public realm.
Her participatory art projects explore themes of imagination, creative archiving, and belonging. Her practice includes creating space for dreaming in public, weaving with natural materials, installing interactive sculptures, and sewing translucent fabrics to float on bodies of water.
As a public artist, professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Practicing Methodologies Lead with Design Studio for Social Intervention, and former art educator at Boston Public Schools, crystal works with others to imagine and design new rituals for remembering and envisioning in public space.
crystal has received grants for her public art projects through the Public Art for Spatial Justice and Creative City cohorts at New England Foundation for the Arts, Transformative Public Art Program through the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, Live Arts Boston through The Boston Foundation, Parks Equity + Spatial Justice cohort through Olmsted Now and more.
She is currently fulfilling a dream to build a Department of Public Imagination, which creates infrastructure for horizontal dream work in Boston.
Find out more at www.crystal-bi.com (here) and www.departmentofpublicimagination.com
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