About

Tiersa Nureyev is a multidisciplinary artist and designer, who has costumed for film, theater, dance and performance art. She is the co-founder of the sustainable, fashion accessory design studio Stella Fluorescent, has been a teaching artist with the San Francisco Arts Education Project (SFArtsED) since 2006, and has led art direction in the creation of textile-based elements, murals, and props for exhibitions, and devised theater.

Tiersa is a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts-funded residency “The Lineal Project” via SFArtsED at the Minnesota Street Project. The project used the formal analysis of line as inspiration for an iterative body of work that included drawings, garments, fiber art, and a collaboration with a choreographer and dance company, that explored the conceptual nature of line as it pertained to lineage via the African Diaspora. 

Tiersa is currently producing Soft Spaces For Hard Times: A Community Quilting Project, funded by the SF Arts Commission. This project engages San Francisco youth in the creation of an ambitious, super-sized textile collage and accompanying installation with a social practice component. Tiersa roots her artistic practices in her commitment to environmental and social justice.

Tiersa lives in San Francisco with her husband, daughter, and many cats.