STORYTELLING IN TEXTILE with PERFORMING ARTIST KAREN E. GRIFFIN /ART BY. E LEWIS

Home-grown textile and performing artist Karen E. Griffin. The E stands for empowered, educated, excited, and engaged while growing up could never imagine that her mother and ancestors would become her greatest and sweetest inspiration. She is the owner of the production line, Jazzy K Productions and doing business as Art by. E Lewis. Her studio is located inside of an art gallery in Kansas City at the Bunker Center for the Arts, giving the artist a workable studio /gallery in her own space. It’s inside this studio that the artist creates, defines and then lets go of her inner textile explosion. As a textile and performing artist, Griffin is honored to be given the torch to carry and run along the path of creativity that ran through the veins of those who came before her. When she takes on the entity of Ida B. Wells, Zora Neale Hurston and her newest library addition, Elizabeth Betsy Coleman, she does so in the spirit of cultural and ethnic contribution. It also gives her an instant palette while having a