AUArts Alum Simone Elizabeth Saunders, BFA '20, Fibre has been named one of twenty compelling Calgarians by the Calgary Herald.
Simone graduated with distinction from AUArts in 2020 and is a textile based artist. Her colourful textiles highlight motifs and iconography from her Jamaican heritage and engage with socio-cultural factors reclaiming power from oppressive ideologies. She explores themes of the diaspora, ancestorship and Black womanhood.
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