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Davana Rodedee (b. 1986) is an artist whose practice centres on large scale indigo drawings and fibre art installations. She grows and extracts her own indigo dye from a small garden, grounding her work in cycles of cultivation and labor.
She is the former director of Quilting by the Lake, one of the oldest art quilt conferences in the country and is a committed advocate for the communities that surround fibre-based art making. She was part of the American Craft Emerging Artist Cohort 2024, is a NYSCA 2025 Artist Awardee, serves on the board of the Schweinfurth Art Center and the James Renwick Alliance for Craft.
Her work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions nationwide including Biformity at Buffalo Art Studios, As Above, So Below at 3S ArtSpace in Portsmouth, NH; The Instability of Nothing at Riverviews Art Space in Lynchburg, VA; In a Moment — Between Dreams at Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland; The Divergence of Light at Curfman Gallery, Fort Collins, CO; Revival at AC Institute, New York, NY; Asymptote at Thompson's Point, Portland, ME; and Climates at View Art Center in Old Forge, NY.
She has participated in residencies at Weissensee School of Art in Berlin, Kimmel Harding Nelson in Nebraska City, Penland Winter Residency in Asheville, NC, and as fibre artist in residence at Gael Roots Farm through Catskills Artspace in Livingston Manor, NY. She received an M.F.A from Syracuse University and a B.A. from Southeastern Louisiana University.
She lives in Syracuse, NY with her partner and black cats.
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YouTube interview by Craig Stover at ArtShow
