Jeanne Medina Le

Jeanne Medina Le uses weaving to make sculptural textiles and fashion. She is interested in textiles as architecture for the body and their ability to embody memories and identity. She works with her materials as collaborators—moved by their aesthetics of the Earth and inherent behaviors. She weaves large-scale works she calls “body objects” performed with and on the body.

Medina Le is an Assistant Professor in Fiber at California State University Long Beach. She received her BFA in Fiber & Material Studies (2001) as well as a Post-Baccalaureate in Fashion, Body and Garment (2009) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and her MFA in Fiber (2013) from Cranbrook Academy of Art where she was awarded the Toby Devan Lewis Award. The award enabled her to pursue research in Antwerp, Belgium at the ModeMuseum (MoMu), and to work with fashion designer, Christian Wijnants. In 2018 she was awarded the Fountainhead Fellowship in Craft & Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). There she worked with the Highland Support Project and fair-trade weaving organization, Pixan, in Xela, Guatemala to develop textile designs with indigenous Mayan weavers. Her collaborations include costume design for choreographer, Rebecca Bryant as well as a 2019 Bessie Award-winning project with choreographer, Sage Ni’Ja Whitson. Her forthcoming fashion project, Tomorrow, Asteroid, is a collaboration with designer, Lap Le, and produces graphic design, fashion, and lifestyle projects. She is currently working with traditional, hand-woven Filipino textiles and collaborating with Zapotec silk work growers and spinners in Oaxaca for the upcoming release.