CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART GRADUATE DREGREE EXHIBITION 2025  
GRADUATES \\ WORK \\ ABOUT \\
STINA
BAUDIN
DEPARTMENT
FIBER


 
 



 With collected archives and data, I search to piece together the story of my existence through multi-layered methodologies and sourcing. I come from a family of artisans and craftspeople who have worked closely with raw materials. My mother was a seamstress, and of my many uncles, one was a goldsmith and another, a shoemaker. Their skills both supplied them with an earned income and displayed their creativity. Crafted textiles, specifically, were made visible in my home’s decor and the handmade clothing my mother made for my siblings and me. The ability to deconstruct, sew, wrap, and weave fibers is a form of artistic expression that feels ancestral.

A memory that remains vivid to me was a visit to the market in Port-Au-Prince when I was 8 years old. I was fascinated by Haitian basket weavers and wood carvers. Their agile hands and remarkable talents were on full display, creating ingenious works reflecting the richness of life in the city. These formative experiences of making influence my studio practice and are activated in the process of creation. Centering the spiral as a foundational metaphorical system (a methodology from an artistic movement that began in my home country, Haiti, called Spiralism), and moving away from structural, linear approaches, I search for meanings in a plethora of places that practice the refusal of a singular tale or way of seeing. Materially, I seek to be attentive to the hidden meanings and histories that various fibers can convey. Cotton, indigo, and linen alongside commodities like brass, copper, and salt all appear in the stories that I tell.

Oscillating between ritual and repetition, notions of truth and myth, my work investigates both form and materials to draw meanings to the relationships that have shaped the identity, geographical movements, and resistance of Black people.
 



Data Studies 2.1: We thank you to carefully examine and fit
2023, Mixed media textile, Salvaged handsewn + pulped denim, inkjet text, redacted text from inside pockets of jeans, leather labels 31" x 47"
Data Studies 2.1: We thank you to carefully examine and fit
2023, Mixed media textile, Salvaged handsewn + pulped denim, inkjet text, redacted text from inside pockets of jeans, leather labels, 31" x 47"
Ou genyen je o Ou genyen je o, cheri Pou wè tout bagay
2024, Hand beaded / hand sewn textile, satin, glass beads, sequins, cotton, 41,5" x 29,5"