Crystal Bi Wegner

LEAD FACILITATOR, AESTHETIC JUSTICE CREATIVITY LABS

Crystal Bi Wegner is a Lead Facilitator with DS4SI’s Public Kitchen and Dance Court Cohort. Crystal is a multimedia artist, community artist, and educator. Her participatory art projects explore themes of radical imagination, storytelling, and community care. 

As a public artist and former Boston Public School teacher, Crystal works with community members to co-design creative interventions that address community issues and imagine alternative futures. She brings to DS4SI her experience in creative facilitation and community engagement, her sound and video design expertise, as well as her passion for working with young people. Her local and national work with DS4SI focuses on designing tools for co-creating a more equitable, beautiful, and welcoming public. 

Crystal’s on-going work as an independent artist include being a member of the 2020 Creative City cohort through New England Foundation for the Arts, Transformative Public Art Program through the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, and Live Arts Boston through The Boston Foundation for her work on the project Chinatown Story Cart. More of her work can be seen at www.crystal-bi.com.