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Drone Stories Embroidery Circle with Sabba Elahi

  • 1925 South Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60616 (map)

Join artist Sabba Elahi in a communal embroidery project to honor the names of women and children who died in US drone strikes in Pakistan.

About the artist:

Sabba S. Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who grew up in a Pakistani household in the Midwest.  Elahi received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is recipient of artist residencies at the Chicago Artists Coalition, Ragdale, and a finalist for the Mother Art Prize (2020).   Her art across fibers, drawing, performance, and installation, resists dehumanization and cultural erasure, intersecting narratives of self, community, and structures of power. She is a current recipient of the Jackman Goldwasser Residency at the Hyde Park Art Center and teaches in the Philosophy & Humanities Department at Oakton College.