Spotlight: Tau Lewis

Tau Lewis’s works channel ancestral memory and advocate for collective healing through labor-intensive artistry. Her sculptural practice weaves together recycled textiles, quilted and dyed fabrics, leather, and found objects to create immersive, layered forms steeped in ancestral resonance and environmental consciousness. Each piece—such as Opus (The Ovule) from the imagined world of T.A.U.B.I.S—fuses the human, botanical, and spiritual within richly textured, gender-fluid structures. Through her meticulous craftsmanship, Lewis channels African diasporic practices of material reuse while envisioning utopian futures of love, healing, and justice. Her installations evoke lineages of Black storytellers and cultural makers, animating space with embodied narratives that transcend traditional sculpture.