Gibbs Street Residency

LaChaun Moore

LaChaun Moore is a DMV native, ethnographic fiber farmer, interdisciplinary artist, and designer. She founded nnia farm (pronounced “knee-ah”) on Johns Island, Charleston, SC, growing heirloom varieties like Indigofera suffruticosa, naturally colored green and brown Sea Island cotton, and gourds—work informed by her grandfather, a sharecropper who fled Georgia with his brothers. LaChaun earned a BFA in Integrated Design from Parsons, The New School for Design, specializing in Alternative Fashion Strategies and Social Practice. Her grant-funded research at Parsons—“Perceptions of Cotton and Agriculture within the African American Community”— continues to shape her work. After graduating, she earned a certificate in holistic farming and business planning while deepening her agricultural and fiber practices. In 2018, she launched the WEAVE Podcast series Contextualizing Textiles, interviewing fiber farmers and textile artists. In 2021, she completed the “Rising: Climate in Crisis” residency at A Studio in the Woods and held a solo exhibition LaChaun Moore: 17845 at The Hilliard Museum in Lafayette, LA. In 2023, she joined the inaugural Braiding Seeds Fellowship, became an active member of the International Center of Indigo Culture to help build a regional dye initiative, and joined the board of the Surface Design Association. She has currently made her way back to the DMV area in hopes to build her farm there to be closer to her family. Her work integrates creative fiber-making with deep plant and cultural research—an aesthetic “living archive.” LaChaun is developing a farm-to-fabric brand prioritizing environmental sustainability, social and historical equity, and ancestral knowledge.