Bio/Press | Crystal Bi

Works

Community Voices Phone

Shape of Belonging

Plaza of Dreams

Chinatown Story Cart

Dream Chinatown Mural

Internal Resonance

Ginkgo Leaf Zine

Chinatown Residence Lab

About

Crystal Bi Wegner (she/they) is a multimedia artist working in the public realm. Her participatory art projects explore themes of radical imagination, storytelling, and belonging.

As a public artist, former Boston Public School art teacher and Creative Civic Design Lead with Design Studio for Social Intervention, Crystal works with communities to design creative interventions that imagine alternative futures. Her local and national work with Design Studio for Social Intervention focused on designing tools for co-creating a more equitable, beautiful, and welcoming public. As part of her work with ds4si, Crystal worked on the Core Imagination Team - the organizational and curatorial team - for inPUBLIC Festival + Summer Series at Downtown Crossing in 2021 and 2022.

Photo by Tarik Bartel.

Crystal is a member of the 2022 Olmsted Now Parks Equity and Spatial Justice cohort for the project Wilderness in collaboration with Dzidzor Azaglo. She was a member of the Creative City cohort through New England Foundation for the Arts, Transformative Public Art Program through the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, and Live Arts Boston through The Boston Foundation for her work on the community archiving project Chinatown Story Cart. Crystal earned her MFA from the Dynamic Media Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Get in touch: crystal.bi.wegner@gmail.com

Grants & Residencies

Emerald Necklace Conservancy - Olmsted Now Parks Equity and Spatial Justice Grant, 2022

The Boston Foundation - Live Arts Boston Grant, 2020-2021

New England Foundation for the Arts - Creative City Grant, 2020-2021

Mayor’s Office of Arts + Culture - Transformative Public Art Program Grant, 2020

Residence Lab with Pao Arts Center and AsianCDC - Artist in Residence, 2019

Selected Exhibitions & Performances

Boston City Hall - Exhibiting Muralist, 2022

Office of Arts and Culture, Boston

inPUBLIC Festival - Curatorial Team Member & Exhibiting Artist, 2022 + 2021

Design Studio for Social Intervention, Boston