Kali Cañedo (pronounced KAY-lee CAN-yeh-doh) is a queer, Filipina-Chinese-American artist and writer originally from Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her BFA in Fine Art, with a concentration in Fibers, from Arizona State University. During her undergraduate career, Kali served as the Vice President of Recruitment and Vice President of Finance of the Delta Xi Chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta, and she was a member of the Fiber Arts Network.

Her fibers-based art practice draws upon traditions, materials, and symbols from her heritage combined with contemporary methods, techniques, and aesthetics. In her visual work, Kali explores narratives both personal and communal, ancestral and immediate, to better understand her own identity as a queer person of color and child of immigrants to the U.S. 

Kali’s writing practice, working in both fiction and poetry, is deeply informed by relationships of all kinds, whether they be interpersonal or intercultural. Often drawing upon her personal experience combined with elements of magical realism, Kali’s writing tends to focus on themes of love and loss, loyalty and betrayal, joy and grief. Through the written word, she communicates widely impactful truths, emotions, and narratives that inspire empathy and catharsis.

A lifelong advocate for human rights, Kali is passionate about social movements and causes that call for the liberation and equity of all peoples. She believes in soulmates with an “s”, the connection between all beings, resistance as the highest form of love, and a better future for all.

May her work speak to you in some way.