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Vincent Tiley: Fiber, Fashion and Performance
Blending fiber, fashion, performance, painting and sculpture, artist and designer Vincent Tiley creates daring, sensitive and innovative pieces, broadening the horizons of fiber art in Brooklyn. Tiley...
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Introducing Sewing Seeds Summer Resident, Ricki Dwyer!
Ricki Dwyer is our new Sewing Seeds Artist in Residence for the summer! Ricki is a textile artist who comes to us by way of San Francisco. She started her undergrad at Pratt in Brooklyn, NY and...
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Artist Highlight: Etta Sandry
Textile Arts Center is swarming with artists creating and designing everyday. A familiar face amongst these artists is our Studio Manager, Etta Sandry. Etta is an integral part of TAC running smoothly....
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A Conversation with Melissa Lockwood
Using salvaged fabrics, Brooklyn based artist Melissa Lockwood creates innovative garments that not only utilize recycled materials, but create awareness around the tremendous waste in the fashion and...
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TWO: A Collaboration Between Artists Mariah Gillespie and Hannah Carr
TWO is a collaboration between Kansas City based artists Hannah Carr and Mariah Gillespie. They began working together shortly after graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute’s Fiber program and...
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Work In Progress: Nadia Albertini
This September, we were excited to have Nadia Albertini, a NYC based textile and embroidery designer, featured in the Work In Progress program. During her residency, Nadia set up her studio in the...
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Studio Visit with Lala Abbadon
Wave on Wave from the Meta Weave Series, Lala Abbadon. This week I had the opportunity to speak with artist, Lala Abbadon, in her Long Island City studio. Abbadon’s highly interdisciplinary works...
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Francesca Capone: Writing in Threads
I hurried my way out of the Textile Arts Center on Sunday evening so that I could stop by one of the last open days of Francesca Capone’s solo show at 99¢ Plus Gallery in Bushwick, Writing in Threads....
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Work In Progress: Karla Belinda Amezcua
Karla Belinda Amezcua, our Work in Progress resident for the month of January, is one busy artist. Karla runs two textile businesses based in Mexico City, Taller Textil Dos Coyotes and Lavanda, and her...
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Keeping Warm: The Bloom Blanket Story
This winter has been particularly chilly in New York City, and while at the Textile Arts Center we have all been trying to keep warm at our looms, it is no surprise that Bloom Blankets have caught our...
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AIR Interview: Colette Aliman
Weaving, sewing, dyeing… These are methods that immediately come to mind for most when they think textile arts. Our AIR Cycle 7 resident, Colette Aliman, practices all of these methods, but the medium...
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Devotion / Destruction: Craft Inheritance at Dorsky Gallery
Devotion / Destruction: Craft Inheritance doesn’t try to define craft nor call to question the role of craft vs. fine art. Rather, it positions itself in response to the history of craft by bringing...
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AIR Interview: Maeve Broome
Whenever I walk into Maeve Broome’s studio, I prepare to be transported. Maeve’s work often employs techniques that evoke otherworldliness. Most recently, she has experimented with mono-print marbling...
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Working with Red Velvet: The Art of Maro Michalakakos
I’ve known artist Maro Michalakakos for many years, but this was the first time I visited her studio. I wasn’t sure what she would be working on, and was more than pleasantly surprised to find the...
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AIR Interview: Alex Goldberg
The other day, I was sitting in the TAC library as a group of young students came pouring into the Oak Knit studio for an afternoon class. Several of them skipped, danced and ran between the two long...
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AIR Interview: Yunjung Kang
Yunjung Kang’s work has a tendency to knock the viewer just a little off-kilter. Her techniques often involve taking mundane household materials and manipulating them beyond recognition, stitching a...
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AIR Interview: Jamie Israelow
Jamie Israelow, one of our AIR Cycle 7 residents, has a knack for bringing out the most beautiful qualities in her materials. A weaver and designer, she makes woven items for the home for her product...
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Quilting as Storytelling
Creating quilts has traditionally been used to tell a narrative through cloth, often made collaboratively through the collection of many scraps of fabric, hand stitched or sometimes not. “Room 32″...
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AIR Interview: Fanny Gentle
Fanny Gentle, one of our AIR Cycle 7 residents, has a sensibility of history and delicacy that infuses all of her work. Fanny has a successful career in commercial illustration, and she came to TAC to...
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Work In Progress: Andrea Myers
I recently sat down with June’s Work in Progress (WIP) resident, Andrea Myers, to learn about the evolving quality of her sculptural work. Myers is a self-named ‘maker’ based in Wooster, Ohio, and...
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