crystal bi (she/they) is a multimedia artist working in the public realm. Her participatory art projects explore themes of imagination, creative archiving, and belonging. Her practice includes creating space for dreaming in public, engaging with archival materials, weaving with natural materials, designing printed media, installing interactive sculptures in public space, and sewing translucent fabrics to float on bodies of water. As a public artist, professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, former Boston Public School art teacher and Creative Civic Design Lead with Design Studio for Social Intervention, crystal works with others to design interventions that practice possible futures. She is currently fulfilling a dream to build a Department of Public Imagination, which creates infrastructure for horizontal dream work in Boston.
Find out more at www.crystal-bi.com and www.departmentofpublicimagination.com
Photo credit: Tarik Bartel