My artistic practice draws from my personal experiences and cultural heritage. Born in the United States to parents who immigrated from the Dominican Republic, I have often found myself in‐between cultures and identities. Because of this my work has been concerned with blurring boundaries, representation and the collective community, while centering those ideas around black and brown epistemologies. My sculptural work combines sewing with photography to create soft sculptures and masks that function as portraits that cut across racial and gender boundaries. From 2012 to 2019, I engaged directly with my artistic community to create “The Supper Club”, a multi‐faceted art project that brought together over 500 artists, scholars and performers of diverse diasporic cultures, through portraiture, food and dialogue to examine race and culture in the U.S. The project was published as a book, titled “Elia Alba: The Supper Club” in 2019 (Hirmer).