Window Craftivation March 2025: Jeanne Medina Le

The Craft in America Center is launching Window Craftivation, a dynamic art showcase series placing more craft in the public eye, spotlighting local craft artists and organizations through our readily visible and universally accessible streetfront display windows. This accompaniment to our regularly rotating exhibitions provides an opportunity to present selected works by additional artists, easily seen at any time of day, even from outside our Third Street location. We invite passers-by to look, stop, ponder, admire, take inspiration, and enjoy the work of the diverse Craftivation artists we feature. Window Craftivations range from artwork displays, to performances and demonstrations. 

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 and inherent behaviors. She weaves large-scale works she calls “body objects” performed with and on the body.

This weaving, Prayers for Estela Crudo, was created during a time when Jeanne’s grandmother was bedridden after a stroke, and Jeanne could not be with her. It is woven from thousands of rug knots made of synthetic rayon raffia, whose physical presence evokes an emotional heaviness, laden with hours of prayers and the labor required to complete the work. When the work is not being interacted with in performance, it is displayed on a steel armature.

Prayers for Estela Crudo, 2018, organic handspun natural cotton weft, synthetic black rayon raffia knots, black linen warp