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𝗦𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗵
@smither_

Fine Art Print
Time-Limited Edition
Includes COA
8 x 8 in
20.32 x 20.32 cm

LIMIT 2 PER CUSTOMER. ORDERS WITH MORE THAN 2 WILL BE ADJUSTED.

Original Artwork Description:

Some Distance, 2021
Handwoven Jacquard polyester, cotton and wool
24 x 28 inches

Available now. link in bio
[ Pre-order ] Prints will ship in 6 - 8 weeks. by @smither_

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Siena.

Chat with Artist & Teacher @smither_. Check her out!

Filmed at @greenestonestudios.

Host: Anthony (@dgt.ant)
DM us “dgt” to be featured.

#imdesigningtoday #interview #inspiration #artist #entrepreneur by @smither_

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🎉 We’re excited to announce our 2025–27 Arts & Cultural Organizing Fellow, Siena Smith (@smither_).

The Arts & Cultural Organizing Fellowship supports emerging artists and cultural organizers who demonstrate a strong commitment both to their artistic practice and to the principles of Ujima. Through this fellowship, Siena will join Ujima's Arts & Cultural Organizing community, contributing to and drawing from a network of artists, organizers, and cultural workers who are advancing new models of creativity, investment, and care.

Siena Smith is an artist who works with drawing, painting, Jacquard weaving and collage to process the complexities of everyday emotions, memories and struggles centering Black life, culture and womanhood. She earned her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Textiles and MFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Fiber and Material Studies. She is interested in how repetition, tactility, material and rhythm of 2-D and textile mediums carry the essence of Black Diasporic personal, collective and spiritual histories and futures.

💫 Join us in welcoming Sienna and learn more at www.ujimaboston.com/blog.
🌟 Check her work out at www.sienasmith.squarespace.com by @smither_

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System unloading … braided together
Jacquard woven cotton, viscose and rayon, cotton thread and pony beads, 50 x 46 inches, 2023-2025
Inspired by the craft and artistry of practitioners like @tookiedidit 🩷✨🙏🏾
Trying to figure out how we can move through this world with ways of knowing that we learn or already have access to.
What systems are causing discrimination, oppression and death?
What systems hold culture, care, growth and love?
Black braiding, hair and tactile care as wayfinding, path making, message carriers, mathematics, culture bearers and expressions …
As black people and hair are heavily policed and monitored. by @smither_

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Expanding … bombastic side eye
Jacquard woven cotton, acrylic and merino wool, 48 x 46 inches, 2025
Letting Black texture take over … by @smither_

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do not disappear … fighting against erasure
Jacquard woven cotton, wool, and acrylic, 48 x 68 inches, 2025 by @smither_

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1-3. Growing and Raging from the Roots, Jacquard woven cotton, acrylic and wool, 48 x 66 inches, 2025.
4. Poetry is Not a Luxury (excerpt) by Audre Lorde, 1985. by @smither_

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2 years ago

This Black History Month, we’ve partnered with Good Black Art to highlight four of the many remarkable artists supported by the organization—and the cultural traditions that inspire them.

“Weaving is one of the many hearts of Black American and Black Diasporic culture, expression and struggle,” says artist Siena Smith. “The warp and weft materials of my fabrics hold in tension patterns of ancestral desires, expressions, rebellions and futures. My family has nurtured the importance of blankets (to keep you warm), church hats (to arrive in style when worshipping), quilts (to tell a story about each fabric pieced together), pillowcases (to rest your head at night) and clothes (to match what's on the inside).

Working with and around the limitations of the Jacquard loom gives me the opportunity to insert Black weaving traditions and craft that I know my ancestors worked so hard to preserve.”

Swipe for a closer look at Smith’s work and weaving process. Discover more from Good Black Art at the link in our bio. by @smither_

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You got potential (Thank you Summer Walker), Jacquard woven cotton, chenille and wool, pony beads, and viscose thread, 48x22 inches, 2024

What seeds need to be planted and grown to survive a world activating and decaying? by @smither_

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Shocked but not surprised (Thank you Doechii and denial is a river), Jacquard woven cotton and wool, pony beads, viscose thread, 48x22 inches, 2024

What is spirit telling you in this moment?
Who is calling on you to attend and mend and break? by @smither_

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This is my decision (Thank you Tems), Jacquard woven cotton and wool, pony beads, viscose thread, 48x25 inches, 2024

Been thinking a lot about witnessing/processing/experiencing/resisting constant, violent systems of oppression i.e. anti-Blackness, homophobia, transphobia, colorism, white supremacy, settler colonialism, imperialism, genocide (free 🇺🇸🇭🇹🇨🇩🇵🇸🇱🇧🇸🇩🇪🇹…), racialized capitalism, commercial art market, health insurance / health care, job insecurity / unemployment, housing insecurity, gentrification, unnatural disasters —— not mutually exclusive and that’s only naming a very few.

Also thinking about loved ones, home cooking, grief, RnB, tea, Hip-Hop, rage, braiding, love, weaving, burnout and struggle,
how to be accountable, intentional and show up for each other.

Very much so inspired by @doechii and her performance of “denial is a river” and “boiled peanuts” on the Colbert show.

Sending love and care,
Siena by @smither_

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