Unboxed: How Fiber Artist Chelsea Billingsley Weaves Black Stories Into Fine Art

Essence Magazine:

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Some people pivot onto new >an unconventional life is what they’re meant for.

Chelsea Billingsley, 29, has always been drawn to art. Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, she was a track and field star: fast, focused, and disciplined. But it was a seemingly ordinary moment in her high school homeroom class, when her teacher decided to teach students how to crochet,

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