“LMRM: Failure as a Bridge” with Hope Wang

Hope Wang is an artist and creative entrepreneur based in Chicago, IL. Her practice explores memory, loss, and longing in the ever-shifting architectural landscape. Through handweaving, photography, poetry, and printmaking, she develops what she calls (American) Midwest Melancholy as a visual language. She often jokes that she creates geo-cache of public places she has cried in.

Hope is also the founder and co-director of LMRM “loom room,” is a project space fostering opportunities for art-making, research, and community programming around digital weaving. She is invested in equitable conditions for working artists, resource sharing, and moving at the speed of trust. She is a two-time recipient of an Artists Run Chicago Grant (2024 & 2025) from the Hyde Park Art Center for LMRM’s contributions to the city’s art community. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout the US, which includes The Hole, NYC; the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago, IL; The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in Milwaukee, WI; amongst others. She is also a 2025 recipient of the Re/Match Artist Award and Creative Accelerator Fund from the Illinois Arts Council. 

ARTIST WEBSITE: https://www.hopewang.com