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- Engagement 8%
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About Hope Wang
Hope Wang (@hopeless_hope) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Music & Artists and Business & Utility Services. The account has 5,502 followers and 1,498 published posts. Recent posts average 433 likes and 16 comments, an engagement rate of 8%.
Hope Wang belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Hope Wang follows 3,212 accounts, so the audience is roughly 1.7 times the size of the list followed. Hope Wang uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Hope Wang under 3 categories, led by Artist and followed by Music & Artists and Business & Utility Services.
The Instagram bio for Hope Wang runs to 13 words across 3 lines. The bio mentions @lmrm_chicago. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Hope Wang dates from August 2024.
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1,498 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Hope Wang, 7 are carousels and 3 are videos. That mix leans toward carousels. Hope Wang has built a substantial archive of 1,498 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 3.7 followers for each post published. Hope Wang also keeps 3 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 228 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include lmrm, loom, work, space and workshop.
Hey divas, this is your friendly Studio Manager and Loom Technician, Tali, taking over the LMRM Instagram to introduce our killer dream team.
First up is the one and only, our founder, co-director and fearless leader: ๐HOPE ๐. A visionary fueled by spite, she worked her butt off to fill a void in the modern weaving world. As just a young babe, she created this ambitious maker space, defying expectations and refusing to compromise her values and morals while doing so. Donโt be distracted by her style and beauty, she is a freakishly brilliant business person while simultaneously balancing a successful arts career.
โท By far the biggest hater on the entire LMRM team.
โท Somehow managed to staff her business with all her nosiest fans.
โท Fueled by Chinese soap operas and no sleep due to her rascal cat, Tofu
โท Works approximately 1 billion hours a week
โท Makes very cute noises like a cartoon character
โท Cult leader-esque
โท You are probably pronouncing her last name wrong
โท Tofu and Lu and Junโs cat, Ace, are in a gay relationship
๐ธby!
Hope Wang is an artist and creative entrepreneur based in Chicago, IL. Her practice explores memory, loss, and longing in the ever-shifting architectural landscape. Through handweaving, photography, poetry, and printmaking, she develops what she calls (American) Midwest Melancholy as a visual language. In her work, she dwells on what is often already disappearing: the last seconds of the sun setting against a factory wall, the shadow of a locked gate cast by streetlights, or the wavering space between an open storefront and a vacant one.
Hope is also the founder and co-director of. โloom roomโ is a project space fostering opportunities for art-making, research, and community programming around digital weaving. She is invested in equitable conditions for working artists, resource sharing, and moving at the speed of trust. She is a two-time recipient of an Artists Run Chicago Grant (2024 & 2025) from the Hyde Park Art Center for LMRMโs contributions to the cityโs art community. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout the US, which includes The Hole, NYC; the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago, IL; The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in Milwaukee, WI; amongst others.
Follow along with and on Instagram and see her works tomorrow, Saturday, May 23 at Entry Point. RSVP link in our bio.
Images:
the traffic still rushes in the distance, 3, 2020
multi-layer screenprint on paper, screen-printed mat board embossed with asphalt texture
14 x 16 x 2 in
Humpty Dumpty, 2022
Screenprint on fiberglass mesh, collaged embossed paper
53 x 32 in
LMRM Workshop | Sept 5-7
Hope Wang
Attendance Fee: $700
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ด๐ถ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ต ๐
Bring your grand visions and half-baked ideas. Bring your courage. Letโs make weavings!
This beginner-friendly course is designed for those interested in translating a specific project into a piece woven at the TC2 loom. Led by LMRM founder and co-director Hope Wang, we will utilize the studio resources (one 2W TC2 Loom, textile art books, weaving sample library, shared warp) to produce sample blankets, test files, and a final mock-up file for a textile project.
Attendees will explore yarn materials, digital tools, and weaving equipment available at LMRM to refine their technical and conceptual design process. This is designed for someone who is looking for technical support but has a defined conceptual and/or visual focus.
No experience required, but handweaving and Photoshop experience helpful!
โง
Reminder that we are fundraising for our ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป + ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ป๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐๐ to guarantee at least 2 artists in each Visiting Artist Workshop this year! Help us reach our goal by March 15! Learn more at ๐
Thursday, March 12, 6-8pm
Free w/ RSVP, in person or virtual
No one is naturally good at writing grants. It is a learned skill.
As an artist-run space, LMRM is deeply familiar with how grant funding can impact your ability to utilize resources in our studio for ongoing projects. So on March 12, weโre partnering with Bustling Spaces to bring you Grant Lab!, a free hands-on workshop focused on building clear budget narratives for real applications.
Grant Lab! will be tailored to how LMRM can provide these items to help you create specificity in your grant applications:
โง project narrative strategies
โง ways to assess alignment
โง letters of support
โง pricing quotes
โง upcoming program information
Not required for attendance, but we encourage you to bring ideas in progress or upcoming applications youโre preparing!
Attend in person or join us virtually via livestream. Weโll record the workshop and leave it up for 30 days after the event. Registration is mandatory to receive the recording. In-person capacity will be limited to 20 attendees.
(โ ๏ฝฅโ ฯโ ๏ฝฅโ )โ ใคโ โโ (โ ๏ฝฅโ ฯโ ๏ฝฅโ )(โ ๏ฝฅโ โโ ๏ฝฅโ )โ โ \โ (โ ๏ฝฅโ โกโ ๏ฝฅโ )โ /
We have worked really hard on every little detail of LMRM and I am incredibly grateful to have a community so invested in what felt like a pipe dream 5 years ago. In our first team photoshoot, I didn't want to be humble about this work - it's often taken 200% of everyone's efforts to make this happen, and I never want to forget that. Chicago artists are familiar with these kinds of spaces being built as your second or third job, designing impactful programs with a much smaller budget than you could imagine. Everyone who has lent their encouragement, time, curiosity, advice, and labor has sharpened what LMRM can do and represent.
Thus, "Glam & Unrelatable" was the assignment for the vibe and needless to say, crushed it!
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ด๐ถ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ต ๐
And weโre introducing our ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป + ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ป๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐๐!
LMRM Workshop/Rental Hybrid | May 16
Meagan Smith
๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฑ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด: ๐๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ
Visiting Artist Workshop | June 20-21
Jovencio de la Paz
๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฑ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ: ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ต & ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ
Visiting Artist Workshop | July 11-12
Janice Lessman-Moss
๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ง๐ต: ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ต & ๐๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ
Visiting Artist Workshop | Oct 10-11
John Paul Morabito
๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ค
LMRM Workshop | Sept 5-7
Hope Wang
3-๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐๐2 ๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ท๐ฆ: ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ-๐ถ๐ฑ
Fundraising for our ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป + ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ป๐ฑ:
Our goal is to guarantee at least 2 ALAANA artists in each Visiting Artist Workshop this year! Each package pairs one workshop seat with two rental sessions for six ALAANA artists, giving them time, space, and tools to put ideas into practice. By donating, youโre not just funding workshop seatsโ๐๐ผ๐โ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ต๐ฒ๐น๐ฝ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐พ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ณ๐.
โง $600 is the value one Learn + Weave Package
โง $2,000 is the value of three Learn + Weave Packages
โง $3,300 is the value of three 3-day TC2 intensive tickets
โง $4,000 is the value of six Learn + Weave Packages
Learn more at the ๐๐ฒโ๐ป
เผโโกโธโธ๐โนใยฐหโด
Chicago Artist's Coalition
Tuesday Feb 24, 6-8pm
In person and online
$10 to attend!
Organization doesn't kill creativity.
๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต๐ด is part of CAC's professional development workshop series and my proposal to artists that organizational systems can generative (and fun)!
During this workshop, we will explore different examples for project tracking, budget building, and creating maps of the pre-existing resources at our fingertips. It's easy to fixate on what we donโt have and how thatโs keeping us from our goals, instead of seeing the merit of what resources are already available to us. By meticulously documenting and making visible the invisible costs that sustain artist practices, can we consider the budget spreadsheet or the planning document as a love letter to our ideas?
I'll be sharing systems that work for me or my peers, and how that logic can be tailored to your own process. I will also be bringing some favorite books of mine for data visualization and diagram ideas for in-person browsing:)
See you then!
Complex weaving has been around for thousands of years. I barely know anything about weaving. But as an artist, I know that this tool reignites peopleโs curiosity and motivation to hand-weave in ways that other looms have not. This is a special thing, to bring people back in front of the loom and reacquaint ourselves with the skills and knowledge that human ingenuity brought forth thousands of years ago. It is a special thing for this tool to get people to fall back in love with making cloth by hand, and it is a special thing for us to witness people follow that thread of curiosity and fully immerse themselves in this at LMRM.
It is important for you to know that weaving cannot be simplified. It can be made more efficient, but it cannot be simplified. It can be made more efficient, at a cost of other things. Working on this particular loom means that you are signing up for something a little less efficient than you think, and more labor intensive than you think. You are signing up to work in front of the loom and weave, by hand, line by line. You are signing up for the power to stop the loom and make new decisions at any moment. That power is electrifying as it is exhausting at times. You are signing up for repetitive actions until you learn through muscle memory at what angle must you flick your wrist with what amount of strength to send a shuttle flying from one end of an open shed to the other. Your focus isnโt yards and yards of material made in a fever dream frenzy that leaves your body aching for days, if not months.*
Your focus is spending enough timeโforgiving, pleasurable timeโwith the material and the tools and your body to intimately listen and let to the process teach you something. It is learning to collaborate with all these parts and considering yourself as one of the many variables guiding the direction and energy of the work, rather than the one bending all other parts to your will.
When does the clock start? I've changed my answer to this over many conversations. Much of my creative process begins with quick phone camera photography. It is a quotidian practice of looking. My process also often involves writing poetry, or crying frequently in my car. But does it only start when I'm physically at the loom, throwing a shuttle back and forth to form the first line of cloth? Does it start with the first or third or fifth try before you get it right? Does it start when I'm photographing my subjects years in advance, over and over again until it gains critical mass? Does it begin when my heart breaks again?
And when it's materialized, is it still the same thing as when it first began? When you say something aloud, does it remain the thing that it was inside your mouth?
๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ด ๐ฃ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ช๐ณ 1 & 7 (image 3&4)
I donโt know when I started paying attention to the peripheral details of my surroundings. I have always loved story-telling, and for me, the smell of a memory, the taste of an emotion, and the sounds of time passing were structural to how I recalled those stories.
Change in physical spaces is an inevitable promise - even though my memories are archived with these unwavering sensory details, spaces as physical artifacts will continue to live many accumulated lives before and beyond the moment I converge with it.
I often reference this transmutation in my work by recalling a particular moment many years ago. I met someone for the first time in an unremarkable diner, and they lived a few blocks east of it. I never recorded their address, always mapping their apartment from the diner - I could not tell you the street name or the number of blocks away or the look of the building, even though I usually file away this kind of information effortlessly. It was a time in my life where I didnโt feel entirely tethered to my body, and every walk to their apartment was a path that only my feet knew.
Many months after my brief interactions with this person evaporated, I almost walked past the diner without registering it. Water-stained brown paper was taped up against all the windows, a โfor-rentโ sign indicating its fate. My reflection in the glass, that was now rendered opaque by the paper, shifted like a lingering ghost.
This person never played a momentous role in my life. But it was the physical erasure of an artifact and the unsettling glitch I felt standing in front of the glass, that seared keenly into the fabric of my memory. That sense of loss, the inevitable life of a new business that would write over this space, serves as a locator beacon for a time I floated behind myself. And I suppose, I continue to record the palimpsests around me as a symptom of living many lives as well.
Hope Wang's engagement
Hope Wang's engagement rate on Instagram is 8%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 13 followers. An average post collects 433 likes and 16 comments, close to 27 likes for each comment.
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Hope Wang (@hopeless_hope) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Music & Artists and Business & Utility Services. Hope Wang uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Hope Wang runs to 13 words across 3 lines.
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Hope Wang has 5,502 followers on Instagram (5.5K). Hope Wang follows 3,212 accounts, so the audience is roughly 1.7 times the size of the list followed. Hope Wang has built a substantial archive of 1,498 posts.
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Hope Wang's engagement rate on Instagram is 8%, over 6%, more than 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 13 followers. An average post collects 433 likes and 16 comments, close to 27 likes for each comment.
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Flinque files Hope Wang under 3 categories, led by Artist and followed by Music & Artists and Business & Utility Services. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Hope Wang, 7 are carousels and 3 are videos. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Hope Wang repeatedly use the words lmrm, loom, work, space and workshop. Hope Wang writes those captions mainly in English. Hope Wang keeps 3 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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