miela foster is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice of visual poetics gives form to the unseen. grounded in the belief that images carry the weight of language, emotion, and spirit, she weaves abstraction, pattern, and texture into layered visual languages that function like poems. viewing poetry as an experiment in revealing deeper truths, her work explores the interplay between perception and memory, with each piece serving as a portal: a space to return to for reflection, transformation, and expansion.

she expands this ethos through foster the studio, a cultural design house and living archive grounded in the principles of visual poetics. drawing from the lineage of experimental Black aesthetics, the studio is both sanctuary and laboratory, where material, spirit, and story converge. through garments, objects, curated shows, prints, and ephemera, foster the studio creates artifacts & experiences that make cultural memory tactile, distilling emotion and memory into form, and offering new textures for how we see, feel, and imagine.

her work has been featured in Canvas Rebel, the SF Bayview Newspaper, a KQed Review and exhibited in galleries across California, including Root Division Gallery and NeueHouse Hollywood.