Compton Quashie

Compton Quashie (they/them) is a Black, queer artist, designer, educator, and cultural worker whose interdisciplinary practice engages the intersections of fashion, performance, and diasporic studies. Grounded in both material research and community-based methodologies, their work examines how Black diasporic communities utilize textiles, fashion, movement, and sound as technologies of cultural preservation. Born and raised in Chicago’s Hyde Park, their practice is shaped by Black cultural spaces as sites of knowledge production, autonomy, and collective care. Their research investigates how aesthetics, craft traditions, and embodied practices circulate across the African diaspora, operating as mechanisms for cultural continuity and socio-political resistance.