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Addoley Dzegede is an artist and educator from South Florida, currently based in Pittsburgh. Her work investigates how trade histories between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas have shaped individual and communal identities. Specifically, her work incorporates how the Dutch textile industry has heavily informed African fashion and adornment—a cross-continental connection belonging to the broader narrative of how postcolonial ties impact quintessential signifiers of self-expression. Dzegede received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She was a 2022-2023 Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands for Craft. In recent years, she has been in residencies at ALMA|LEWIS x Frick Pittsburgh, AiR Green at Søndre Green in Norway, and was Artist Researcher in Residence at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.