Lauren Stichweh is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines the entanglement of intimacy, labor, and power through material and embodied gestures. Working across weaving practices, objects, and performance, she explores how affective and physical economies shape the ways bodies encounter one another. Her practice often navigates thresholds, between visibility and concealment, tension and release, and the necessary endurance of maintaining these states of in-betweenness. Through these shifting dynamics, Stichweh’s work investigates the politics of care and control and seeks a language for what resists legibility: the slow, sensual labor of being in relation.

​She is currently a 2nd year MFA candidate in Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.