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AIR Cycle 10 Artist Spotlight: Romina Chuls
My conversation with artist Romina Chuls ranged from stories of her father taking her on trips in the Andes and their traditional embroidery, to ideas around the decolonization of art museums and her...
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AIR Cycle 10 Artist Spotlight: Tiantian Lou
Tiantian Lou’s studio is full of small projects and samples. These are emblematic of what she has learned about herself over these last few months. She is jumping around themes and materials,...
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Work in Progress: David B. Smith
I sat down with artist David B. Smith on a Saturday after his Open Studio hours. While the open chance to come in and speak to Smith had passed, he continued to observe how people passing on the street...
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AIR Cycle 10 Artist Highlight: Dance Doyle
It was almost fate that brought Oakland’s Dance Doyle to the medium of tapestry weaving from ceramics in college. Originally a theatre major, she realized it was not what she was meant to do after a...
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Work in Progress: Kendall Schauder
It is hard to describe the enjoyment and immediate kinship you find when a Texan meets another Texan, especially when it is unexpected. Kendall Schauder is a Houston, Texas native, now living and...
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Work in Progress: Barbara Miñarro
Barbara Miñarro is originally from Monterrey, Mexico, but the January Work in Progress (WIP) resident artist came to the United States at age 11. The first place she lived as a new American was...
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Work In Progress: James Hsieh
James Hsieh’s colorful soft sculptures are deceptively childlike. There’s a playful tension between their cute forms and creepy details. At first glance, you might see a cuddly ant or flower but take a...
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Work In Progress: Erik Bergrin
Children’s laughter fills the studio when I enter the Textile Arts Center’s Manhattan location on a Wednesday afternoon. After-school programming is in full force. Yet October WIP artist, Erik Bergrin,...
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October Fiber Art Picks!
Top: Teeth, 2018, by Martha Tuttle; Bottom: No Such Luck, 2017, by Erin M. Riley Dorsky Gallery Complicated Territory feat. Alex McQuilkin, Erin M. Riley, and Martha Tuttle Curated by Bridget Donlon...
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Work In Progress: Kathleen McDermott
It is nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday when I meet Work In Progress resident, Kathleen McDermott, in the Textile Arts Center’s Manhattan studio. West 8th Street is already beginning to hum with weekend...
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September Fiber Art Picks!
This September, Parsons School of Design and Lidewij Edelkoort bring New York Textile Month to the city; a festival “designed to celebrate textile creativity and promote textile awareness.” Be sure to...
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AIR Cycle 9 Highlight: Meghan O’Sullivan
How did you first get interested in textiles and textile work? I have always been really drawn to clothing, so going to school for fashion design was the entryway into where I am now. What was your...
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TAC Summer Camp, 2018: Week 3!
In Week 3 of TAC Summer Camp, the kids visited the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum to see their exhibit, Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color. This exhibit explores the ways that...
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August Fiber Art Picks!
Lucy T. Pettway. “Housetop and Bricklayer with Bars Quilt.” Photo courtesy of Gift of Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection. History Refused to Die: Highlights from the...
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AIR Cycle 9 Highlight: Li Junyu
When did you first start working with textiles? In my undergraduate- it was all different kinds of crafts, so textile was one class in the undergraduate major. Each class would take several weeks, so...
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TAC Summer Camp, 2018: Week 2!
This week in TAC Summer Camp, the kids visited the Museum of Arts and Design to view Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro. Schapiro was an influential feminist artist who helped to make...
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Work In Progress: Hanna Washburn
Photos by Daniel Natalo-Lifton This past week, I sat down with our Work in Progress (WIP) artist for the month of July, Hanna Washburn. Accompanied by her colorful, soft sculptural pieces, we...
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Air Cycle 9 Highlight: Rhonda Khalifeh
How did you first get interested in garment making? I felt like my needs weren’t being met and that I wanted to make and design clothes for myself. I grew up in a Muslim family and I observed a dress...
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July Fiber Art Picks!
Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke, 4.24 – 6.30, 2017. Photograph courtesy of Josée Bienvenu Gallery Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke, Reweave, 2015. Photograph courtesy of Elizabeth Dee Gallery The Surface...
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Work In Progress: Emma Hasselblad
Photograph by Daniel Natalo-Lifton. Surrounded by sparkly sequins and pink yarn scraps, I recently got the chance to step into the world of our Work in Progress (WIP) artist for the month of June, Emma...
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