Presenting Stephanie Santana, a textile and print artist who draws from African diasporic traditions, weaving together fragments of memory and history to challenge silences and rewrite forgotten stories.

Stephanie Santana’s textiles and prints are acts of quiet defiance—gathering memory, history, and myth into layered works that reclaim and reimagine. Rooted in African diasporic quiltmaking and inspired by artists like Betye Saar and Emma Amos, her practice honors Black women’s legacies of resistance and storytelling. Born in Los Angeles and based in Brooklyn, Santana builds her pieces from archival materials, paint, and print, creating tactile maps of identity and ancestral knowledge. Her art doesn’t just recall what’s been lost—it repairs, reclaims, and insists on new ways of knowing, where memory and selfhood remain alive, layered, and evolving.