Conversations in Patterns, Textiles, Figures and Portraits

Conversations in Patterns, Textiles, Figures and Portraits: JAMILLA OKUBO AND IFY CHIEJINA is an exhibition that speaks to the process of art by Kenyan American artist Jamilla Okubo and Nigerian American artist Ify Chiejina.

Jamilla Okubo is a Kenyan-American artist who is a DC Native who lived in New York City. She is a graduate of Parsons the New School for Design with a BFA in Integrated Fashion Design, concentrating on Fine Arts as an integration of fashion and surface pattern design. Her work explores cultural identity and black culture, and aims to use her interdisciplinary concentration as a medium to address topics within her culture while focusing on redefining the stereotyped narrative of the African…