Lara I. Bros (she/hers) is a queer visual artist. She works in collage and textile arts. Her work focuses on piecing together found images and text to convey complex feelings and experiences that often escape description. She explores themes of memory, the sacred, and how vulnerability (or fear of vulnerability) informs our perspectives, using her own and shared experiences.

In patchworking different mediums together, she believes that observers are enticed to not just be viewers, and to absorb the telling of these experiences. To not just hold the familiarity of shared experiences, but to participate in the telling and preservation of a story by lending their own perspectives and experiences. Lara practices art in the spirit of abolition, believing that creative practices provide us with the imagination and different modes of thinking that we need to radically re-imagine our society and relationships with one another.

Her current pieces explore elusive practices of spirituality and divinity that have been coded feminine, such as tarot reading and candle magick. Her hope is that the imagery she creates encourages the discovery of the sacred in our own relationships with others and our world, and encourages different ways of participating with art practices. She crochets, works as an abortion and postpartum doula, and loves to bask in the sun. She has a BA in Art History from Drexel University, and lives in Queen Village with her cat, Fern, and her chosen family.