About the Artist

ALEXANDRA BEAUMONT is a textile artist and dancer working in fabric and movement to explore personal and collective joy, celebration, and expansion. Her handmade banners reference the visual, kinetic, and metaphoric elements of dance floors through collaged cloth portraits of celebrants in movement. Her recent solo exhibition “Techniques for Ecstasy” was presented at Public Functionary in Minneapolis, Minnesota in May 2024. She is a 2024 Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Individuals Grantee, a 2023 Forecast Early Career Project grantee, and a 2022 recipient of the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council “Next Step Fund” grant. She is a member of PF Studios in Minneapolis, MN and contributes to the development team of Public Functionary, a gallery, performance space, and café supporting BIPOC and LGBTQ artists in the Twin Cities.

Alexandra Beaumont Composite 2

About the Artwork

These large-scale textile collages feature the dancing silhouettes of me, my friends, and community painted onto sheer cloth, intertwined, embroidered, beaded, and stitched together. Through the process of making each by hand, I celebrate the exuberance of dancing together and invoke the potential for revolutionary power that weaves through our bodies when we do. My work honors the dance floor as a site of embodied resistance and celebratory reclamation, a space where we can spark empathy kindled from the recognition of joy in another. As I witness and pay homage to our joy through my art making, I want to do everything I can to safeguard it, to contribute to a world that is safe for you and me to be free like this.

Website + Socials

Website: https://www.alexandrabeaumont.com/

Instagram: @anbeaumont

About the Artist

ALEXANDRA BEAUMONT is a textile artist and dancer working in fabric and movement to explore personal and collective joy, celebration, and expansion. Her handmade banners reference the visual, kinetic, and metaphoric elements of dance floors through collaged cloth portraits of celebrants in movement. Her recent solo exhibition “Techniques for Ecstasy” was presented at Public Functionary in Minneapolis, Minnesota in May 2024. She is a 2024 Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Individuals Grantee, a 2023 Forecast Early Career Project grantee, and a 2022 recipient of the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council “Next Step Fund” grant. She is a member of PF Studios in Minneapolis, MN and contributes to the development team of Public Functionary, a gallery, performance space, and café supporting BIPOC and LGBTQ artists in the Twin Cities.

Alexandra Beaumont Composite 2

About the Artwork

These large-scale textile collages feature the dancing silhouettes of me, my friends, and community painted onto sheer cloth, intertwined, embroidered, beaded, and stitched together. Through the process of making each by hand, I celebrate the exuberance of dancing together and invoke the potential for revolutionary power that weaves through our bodies when we do. My work honors the dance floor as a site of embodied resistance and celebratory reclamation, a space where we can spark empathy kindled from the recognition of joy in another. As I witness and pay homage to our joy through my art making, I want to do everything I can to safeguard it, to contribute to a world that is safe for you and me to be free like this.

Website + Socials

Website: https://www.alexandrabeaumont.com/

Instagram: @anbeaumont