About the Artist

Chason Adjoa Nana Yeboah-Brown (she/her) is a Ghanaian-Trinidadian, Toronto based self-taught textile sculptor, full circle doula, community worker and workshop facilitator. Working primarily with crochet, her work challenges conventional distinctions between craft and fine art, using fiber as both material and metaphor to explore themes of ancestry, diaspora, human connection, hybridity, energy transference, sexuality and the like. The black body and the human(oid) figure has been central to their practice often reflected as nude, allowing the body to exist as a site of shared humanity and ancestral continuity. Her work has been exhibited at the Textile Museum, La Musée Nationale des Beaux Arts de Quebec, Nuit Blanche, Aresenal Gallery, and she has facilitated crochet workshops at the 519 community centre, UofT Scarborough, TDSB, Nia Centre for the Arts, Wildseed Centre, and more. As a workshop facilitator she uses  crochet as a tool for healing, connection and mindfulness. Having over twenty years experience working with youth, families, and varying communities Chason’s works stands at the crossroads of art, education and collective healing.