Dail Chambers is a visual artist, creative consultant and grower. Her visual art practice is a multimedia exploration in genealogy, women’s narratives and social environmental art. She has received numerous awards and fellowships through out the United States. As a homeschooling, teaching artist mother, she has traveled internationally, creating curriculum lesson plans to enhance and motivate inter-generational learning environments.
Studio Art || Place Based, Community Art and Agriculture
itshanapa@gmail.com
2002 Birthed One Child
2005 Associates in Fine Arts, Photography, Saint Louis Community College
2007 BFA with Concentration in Ceramics, minor Art History , Memphis College of Art
2008 Postgraduate Studies in Women's Studies, University of Missouri, Saint Louis
Professional Activities
2007 Barbara Bickart Residency, When Video/Performance, Dancer, Memphis, Tenn.
2009 Community Arts Training Institute Fellow, Regional Arts Commission, Saint Louis
2010 Founded Yeyo Arts Collective, Saint Louis, Mo.
2010 Jobs with Justice Organizers Training Completion, Saint Louis, Mo.
2011 Artist in Residence, Earthdance Organic Farms, Ferguson, Mo.
2011 Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana
2012 Ella Baker Institute Fellow, University of Chicago, Chicago Ill.
2015 Artist, Toogaloo Art Colony, Toogaloo College, Toogaloo, Mississippi
2016 Birthed One Child
2016 Uzazi Village, Certified Doula
2017 Cofounded The Fannie Lou Hamer House, Belleville, Illinois
2017 Artist In Residence, Pulitzer Art Museum, Saint Louis Missouri
2020 Artist in Residency, Sybil’s Shrine, Carnegie -Mellon, Pittsburgh Pa.
2020 Cofounded Civic Arts Development Corporation, Saint Louis Missouri
2020 Beautiful, Healthy, Resilient, Public Health Research Campaign
2020 Founded Coahoma Orchards -Food Forests Project, Saint Louis, Mo./ Clarksdale Mississippi
2021 Teaching Black Wall Street, Curriculum Developer, Carter Center K-12 Missouri University
2021 Divided City Grant Recipient, Washington University, Saint Louis, Mo.
2021 Artist to Artist Fellow, Art Matters Foundation New York, New York, Ny.
2022 Neighborhood Leadership Fellow, University of Missouri Extension, Saint Louis, Mo.
2022 Resilient Communities, Permaculture Design Certification, Permaculture Inst. of Chicago
2022 Women’s Earth Alliance, Environmental + Climate Leader, Global Fellowship
2022 Yes! Jam Facilitant, Evolving and Emerging Economies, Global
2023 Robert Woods Johnson Foundation Conference, Healing Opening + Land Back and Black Reparations Facilitator
2024 Society of Ethnobiology, Communities in Ethnobiology Award, 2024
2024 Ira Wallace Seed School Student
2024 Member of the Certified Appraisers Guild, Appraiser
Teaching Artist
2006 Teaching Artist, Memphis College of Art Summer Camp
2006 Teaching Artist, Memphis Black Artist Alliance, Memphis Tennessee
2010 Teaching Artist, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis Missouri
2010-2020 Lead Teaching Artist & Curriculum Developer, Bread and Roses, Missouri
2013-2015 Lab Team Liason/Guest Faculty, Community Arts Training Institute
2018 Visiting Artist- Printmaking, Dusable Museum of African American Art, Chicago, Ill.
2019 Teaching Artist- Yeyo Arts Collective, Saint Louis, Mo.
2019 Teaching Artist in Residence, Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis
2022 Teaching Artist, Saint Louis Shakespeare Festival- Sumner High School, Saint Louis, Mo.
2022-24 Teaching Artist, Dayspring Academy, Saint Louis, Mo.
Solo Exhibitions
2009 “Works by Dail Chambers,” Nu Art Metropolitan Art Gallery, Saint Louis
2012 “Primordial” Saint Louis Community College Florissant Valley
2014 “Itshanapa’ Beverly Gallery, Saint Louis Mo
2016 “Sankofa an Ancestral Journey”, Memphis College of Art Gallery, Memphis, Tn.
2016 “Journey,” Phantom Art Gallery, Chicago Ill.
2016 Prospect 4 Satellite Site, New Orleans Louisiana
2023 “Figure Ground,” Wildfruits Project, Saint Louis, Mo.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 Women’s Caucus of Art, National Organization, Saint Louis Chapter, Saint Louis, Missouri
2006 Energy, Gallery Visio, University of Missouri Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri
2015 “Nu” Most Wanted Art Gallery, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
2015 “Pentimento,” Intersect Arts Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri
2017 “Saint Louis: #1 Civil Rights,“ Missouri History Museum and Acquisition
2017 Washington Park Cemetery, Sheldon Art Galleries, Saint Louis, Mo.
2017 ST.ART Muralist, Mural Project, Saint Louis, Missouri
2018 Featured Artist for Hotel Wall Painting, Angad Arts Hotel, Saint Louis, Mo.
2019 Art is Labor, Curator and Exhibiting Artist, Arcade Art Gallery, Saint Louis, Mo.
2020 Exhibiting Artist, Keith Haring: Radiant Gambit, World Chess Hall of Fame, Saint Louis, Mo.
2016,17,20 Exhibiting Artist, Maafa, Ashe Cultural Arts Center, New Orleans, La.
2022 Program Artist, SHRINE, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
2022 Selected Works on Paper, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
2023 Rematriated Realms, Inside Out, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
2023 Lavish Nature, Coral Green Studios, Saint Louis, Mo.
2023 General Sisters & Jen Everett Residencies, Counterpublic, Facilitator/Collaborator, Saint Louis, Mo.
2024 Kernels of Culture, Missouri Botanical Garden Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum, Saint Louis, Mo.
2024 Considering St. Louis, curated by Ciera McKissick, The Luminary Art Gallery, Saint Louis, Mo.
2024 At the Center, Sibyls Shrine, Saint Louis, Mo.
