Chanel Thervil is a Haitian American artist and educator that uses varying combinations of abstraction and portraiture to convene communal dialogue around culture, social issues, and existential questions. Visually she represents this by creating controlled chaos via the playful juxtaposition of various textures, colors, abstractions, and representational forms that result in dynamic installations, paintings, and murals. More recently, her practice has been a playground for facilitating conversations with the public as a means of cultivating communal spaces for that kind of inquiry, discourse, and reflection.