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Levon Kafafian is a weaver working the narrative threads of costume, artifact, ritual and installation into stories about possible worlds and potential futures. Treating woven cloth as portals into these other worlds, Kafafian generates texts infused with future ancestral practice, hybridity and magic.

Their current work channels the world of Azadistan out of the Armenian diasporic imaginary toward the forthcoming graphic novel Portal Fire.

Based in Detroit, Mi, Kafafian holds a BFA in Fiber from the College for Creative Studies and a BA in Anthropology from Wayne State University in 2014. They co-led a 7-week public educational weaving program in partnership with Trapholt Museum for Moderne Kunst, Denmark, in 2022, and regularly lecture and teach workshops across the U.S. Kafafian has notably exhibited their work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI; the University of Michigan, Stamps Gallery, MI; and the Arab American National Museum, MI. They are the recipient of numerous grants including the Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum Grant (2021), Creative Armenia Spark Grant (2021), the Red Bull Arts Microgrant (2020), the Rauschenberg Foundation SEED Grant (2016) and the Knight Art Challenge Award (2016). They have participated in the International Studio and Curatorial Program Residency (2023) and the Arab American National Museum Residency (2019).