Kris Aman
Kris Aman is a scavenger of material & meaning, iterating towards a world where violence is unnecessary, through performance, language, sound, and design. They are the founder of Body High, a gender-expansive & size-inclusive custom bodywear company devoted to designing for liberation. Kris belongs to a lineage of Philly-area textile workers, and since returning to Philly in 2021, they have increasingly found textile work to be about repair, on many levels.
As an anti-capitalist artist making a living through service industry work, they view their new business as a way to explore the sustenance of creative labor through solidarity economics.
Awarded Grants
2024
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Kris Aman will host a six-hour event at Made Institute that brings together LGBTQ+, plus-size, and disabled designers and sewists to practice fashion as community care. The event will include a free store, stocked with fabric, sewing supplies, and clothing – with a focus on clothes that are adaptive, plus-size, and gender-affirming/dysphoria-reducing. There will be a lounge area with space to write responses to prompts on how fashion could more positively affect our lives. This project will serve as a pilot program to demonstrate the viability of developing a local fashion solidarity economy.
