Cyrah Dardas is an eco-romantic artist based in Detroit/Waawiyaatanong, Anishinaabe territory. Their work is informed by experiences as a mother, educator, childcare worker, plant grower, and member of artist cooperatives, as well as through an ongoing relationship to land and ecological systems. Working across sculpture, textiles, natural dyes, installation, and participatory public programming, Dardas creates work rooted in ritualized art making as a tool for grief composition, sensuous repair, and collective healing.
Their practice explores embodied memory, interdependence, and processes of ecological and cultural restoration. Through community-rooted projects, gardens, workshops, and installations, Dardas uses art as a way of engaging with the world relationally—creating spaces for collective learning, reflection, and care. Their finished works function as archives of continual seeking, somatic remembering, and reciprocal exchange with place and community.
Dardas has presented work with the College for Creative Studies, The Shepherd, and MDW Fair. They have participated
in residencies and collaborative projects with Sidewalk Detroit, Newlab, Room Project, and BULK Space.
PRESENTATION DETAILS
Panel discussion with Carole Harris, Cyrah Dardas, and Taylor Childs
Thursday 04/29/27: 4:00pm (Cranbrook Auditorium)
In this panel, the Head of Fiber at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Joey Quiñones, will moderate a discussion between artists Carole Harris, Cyrah Dardas, and Taylor Childs. These artists have deep connections with the city of Detroit, and all use fiber and quilting in their work as a way to connect, heal, and preserve stories.
