Xenobia Bailey

Xenobia Bailey (b. 1955, Seattle, WA, USA) is an American fine-artist, designer, fiber-art pioneer and cultural activist whose practice re-imagines everyday materials, craft traditions and Afro-diasporic aesthetics through an aesthetic she terms “Fun(k)tional Design.”  She began her career designing crocheted hats and wearable art before scaling up to monumental hand-crocheted mandalas, large-scale installations, public mosaics and immersive environments. Her work fuses textile craft, urban design references, African cosmological motifs and a vibrant, layered palette of color and texture. Bailey’s mission extends beyond making art to creating visual languages of empowerment, visibility, joy and connection rooted in Black homes, households, and community spaces.