Dail Chambers

Dail Chambers (she/her) is a post medium artist, appraiser and cultural land steward. Her practice is an exploration in storytelling and social, environmental art. Chambers is the founder of Yeyo Arts Collective, a small grassroots organization that has stewarded arts and crafts through advocacy, gallery operations and community programming for sixteen years.

Chambers creates food forests, relates to the river and grows seed on Osage/Illini land known as Saint Louis, Missouri and Clarksdale, Miss. She is a mother, circle keeper and doula. She operates Coahoma Orchards and directs Coahoma Orchards Community Research Institute; A resident and grower-led approach to social science and agriculture.

Her work has been featured in NY Times, BBC Arts Hour, Missouri Historical Society, PBS, and with the Smithsonian at the Historic Phyllis Wheatley YWCA and at the Association of African American Museum Conference. She has been a part of Women’s Earth Alliance, National Women’s Caucus of Art, Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute, Ella Baker Institute and YesWorld. She teaches ethical seed topics with Ira Wallace Seed School and Ujamaa Seed Cooperative.