Rackie Diankha works in textiles and images based on the representation of weaving, since lines are omnipresent in the environment. She also works for worked for several years in mastering the techniques of integrating African traditional lioncloths (pagnes), that she has integrated various kinds into her paintings.  These loincloths represent various phases of life; bridal loincloth, birth…  She is interested particularly in the small loincloth, the béthio, an essential element of seduction of the Senegalese women which is used in intimacy and weaves the lives of the couples together.  Ms. Diankha, was born in 1974 in Dakar.  Since completing her education at the Ecole des Beaux arts in Dakar in 1995, she has had exposure in both national and international exhibitions in France, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Spain and the United States.  She frequently collaborates on design for cinema and animated films.  Rackie has a new studio situated in the Village of the arts where she has initiated young women artists into painting and the technique of textile fraying.  She now resides in Virginia.