Lyza Baum

Lyza Baum is an artist residing in Providence, RI. Her textile and interdisciplinary work is dependent on the context of the place and community that surrounds her, often addressing the personal and collective relationships with our built and natural environment. Through community-engaged collaborations, textiles, photography, video and performance, she investigates the trauma, tension and complex symbiotic connections between the body and land we occupy. She earned a BFA in textiles at RISD and has participated in Land Arts of American West Program at Texas Tech University. Her book Dye Trying: Field Notes from a Textile Residency in the Philippines, published by Hardworking Goodlooking, has been on display at the MOMA Collective Imagination Room and the BARD Reading Room, and is currently archived in the SAIC Flaxman Library Special Collection. In 2020, she was awarded a public art grant from the City of Providence Department of Art, Culture and Tourism. Her collaborative public art weaving INTERLINKED is currently installed on the Woonasquatucket Greenway in Olneyville, RI.