Nadia Wolff is a Haitian-American artist, designer, poet, and maker who shares creative inspirations and influences.

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Miami native Nadia Wolff is a Haitian-American artist, designer, poet, and maker whose work beautifully blends culturally significant themes of gender, sexuality, race, and identity. As a senior at a magnet high school, Wolff was a 2016 YoungArts winner in Visual Arts and Design Arts, as well as a 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Currently, Wolff is pursing a five-year dual degree (BFA + BA) focusing on textile arts at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) and Africana studies at Brown University. In this week’s Friday Five we learn more about the fine artist’s creative inspirations and influences. Photo by Nadia Wolff
1. Light/Color/Pattern

The way that I move through the world is incredibly influenced by light, and I am incredibly drawn to vibrant color and pattern. This is definitely an inheritance from the cultures I claim, having grown up in Miami, Florida raised by Haitian immigrants. I?m constantly noting color, light, and pattern in architecture, textiles, nature, crowds of strangers.

2. Poetry

Poetry is constantly on my mind?from the poets I follow on Twitter, to the daily poem in my inbox each morning, to the objects and motifs I gravitate towards in my writing, art, and design work. One collection of poems that struck me recently is LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs? ?TwERK.? She is also an in...