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I’ll be selling work from the 1000 Actions project tonight at @melt_fest_events’ Voices United community fundraiser

100% of sales will be split to support @unrwa + @opinorg’s legal defense fund
‘I could find traces of you anywhere’ for 16 portals 🌀
 
I said this to Summer a few months ago when I started making flying geese blocks from the scraps of their recent solo exhibition. they were working on the body of work for their sh
❤️‍🔥 all empires will fall ❤️‍🔥

I had four embroideries up for auction in the second Voices United benefit for @opinorg’s Emergency Legal Defense Fund, organized largely in part by my buddy Lyle (@begiebing_17). I also took part in t
phx pride weekend ❤️‍🔥
I have two embroidery + zine bundles available in the Voices United Phoenix art auction, a grassroots campaign to support the Emergency Worker Legal Defense Fund

led by @opinorg, @puente.az, and @poderinaction, the fund supports local workers impact
FUCK THIS I & II, solarfast on cotton
recent cyanotypes of an art action from January 2024

part of 1000 Actions, a personal effort to create and distribute a thousand art actions in support of Palestine and the broader Land Back movement

wheat-pasting materials from @againstapartheid.a
part of 1000 Actions, a personal effort to create and distribute a thousand art actions in support of Palestine and the broader Land Back movement
lesbian visibility day 🖤

recents from @summyraine
mae martin, jenny holzer, kara walker
things I made while feeling very disconnected from myself as an artist this year 🙃
selected works from @udhrquilts by US-based artists (for obvious reasons) 🕊️⛓️‍💥
no pathos, no fatalism
16 people freed in Navalny’s name
🥀 for pride ~ 10 yrs of my gay art 🥀 

my artwork and queerness have always been inextricably linked. i started taking my practice seriously shortly after coming out, so embroidery has quite literally been my queer journeyyy / emotional safe space
‘no holy place from which we were absent,’ 2024

Sappho reaching out to herself
Faith Ringgold, 1930 — 2024

“I don’t think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have to feel good about who you are and that you could do something to change things.”

1. &ldq
my grandma’s best friend loves this photo of me
“these bastards will never see our tears” — @yulia_navalnaya 

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i. ‘no pathos, no fatalism’, embroidered portrait of Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia Navalnaya. 2023.

Navalny was held in solitary confinement for the
NO BORDERS, NO WALLS /
PEOPLE NOT PRISONS

more patches from the solo craftivist project I started in October 2023. all of the patches I’ve made for this series are stitched and finished by hand.

the above sentiments are meant as much for 🍉 a

illuminate | steph dunlap

© steph dunlap, 2020 — 2026

I acknowledge the O’odham nations (the living descendents of the Hohokam people) as the rightful owners of the land on which I live and work. I pay my respects to the original caretakers of this land and to their descendants past, present, and emerging.