Draft:LaShawnda Crow Storm

LaShawnda Crow Storm is an American artist based in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is known for quilting scenes of historic lynching and violence against African Americans. She is most well known for her quilt of the lynching of Laura Nelson.

Life and Education
Crow Storm went to University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where she received her Bachelors of Arts in English / Creative Writing. She also went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her Masters in Fine Arts.

She works at the Community Engagement Director at the School of Liberal Arts Indiana University Indianapolis with Spirit & Place.

Art
LaShawnda Crow Storm started The Lynch Quilts Project, which is a community of quilters that work together to depict Lynching of African Americans throughout time by sewing quilts.

Selected Works and Exhibitions

 * Her Name Was Laura Nelson, 2013
 * Play Station, 2015
 * Keeper of my Mother's Dreams, 2017
 * Work from The Lynch Quilts Project at Butter, 2021
 * RECLAIM, 2022
 * redLines, 2022


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Indianapolis/Indiana_Underrepresented_Artists