Photograph of dail chambers and megan singleton during artist talk of “kernals of culture exhibition” at the missouri botanical gardens, 2024

 

Chambers creates place based, community art projects and intensely explores through research, ethnographic inquiry and oral tradition. Her public art themes are ecology, migration and plant design.

She has worked with Memphis College of Art, Memphis Black Arts Alliance, Saint Louis Art Museum, The Dusable Museum of African American Art, Missouri History Museum, Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis; Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Carnegie Museum of Art, Counterpublic, Missouri Botanical Garden, and with a plethora of organizations bringing art, healthy living and agriculture to youth and families.

Her community art practice is deeply dedicated to the mission of Yeyo Arts Collective. Yeyo Arts Collective is dedicated to the creative empowerment of women and families. www.yeyoarts.com

For over a decade, Chambers worked with Bread and Roses, Missouri as the inaugural lead teaching artist and program coordinator of the Youth Initiative.

Chambers is also the sister, daughter and niece of fellow fine artists, Darnell and Naomi Chambers, Delbert Chambers and John Chambers of Ohio, respectively. The family creates and exhibits in collaboration.

 
 
 

Sankofa: A Collective Mythology by Dail Chambers, Sarah Paulsen and sound by David A.N. Jackson

Missouri history museum, saint Louis mo.

collaborative mural by dail and darnell chambers, Missouri history museum, saint Louis mo.

Angad Arts hotel, saint Louis Mo.

Angad Arts hotel, saint Louis Mo.