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Curated by Annie Chen Ziyao and Jing Pei

"Threads of Connection" is a captivating textile art exhibition that showcases the innovative responses of young artists to contemporary societal issues. Featuring current students and alumni from the MFA Textile program at Parsons School of Design, this exhibition demonstrates how emerging artists use their craft to engage in meaningful dialogue with the world around them.

Visitors will experience a diverse array of textile techniques, including weaving, dyeing, crochet, knitting, felting, embroidery, and cutting-edge biomaterials. Each piece reflects the artists' commitment to sustainability, with many works incorporating natural dyes, recycled plastics, and other eco-friendly materials.

This exhibition not only highlights the technical mastery of these young artists but also their deep awareness of environmental concerns and their ability to address complex social issues through their art. "Threads of Connection" invites viewers to explore the intricate ways in which textile art can weave together creativity, sustainability, and social commentary.

Exhibition Time: September 19th - 29th, 2024
Opening Night: September 19th, 6:00 PM

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Jing Pei is a textile artist known for her innovative approach to embroidery and commitment to sustainability. With a focus on zero-waste techniques, Jing creates exquisite textile pieces that not only highlight the intricate beauty of embroidery but also emphasize environmental consciousness. Her work often explores connections with water purification, showcasing her dedication to merging art with ecological responsibility.

With a passion for fostering artistic collaboration, Jing is organizing a textile art exhibition featuring her work alongside pieces by other talented artists. This event aims to celebrate the beauty and diversity of textile art, providing a platform for artists to share their unique visions.

Ehxibition

During New York Textile Month 2024, four graduate students from the Swedish School of Textiles—spanning both the Bachelor’s and Master’s programs—are proud to present their innovative degree work. This exhibition showcases the intricate craftsmanship and deep knowledge required to create textile pieces in an increasingly digitalized world. As emerging designers, they share a commitment to sustainability, recognizing the vital role it plays in shaping the future of design.

In a time when the digital realm often overshadows the tangible, these textile designers emphasize the importance of staying grounded in our craft and environment.

Their works draw inspiration from their surroundings, telling stories and conveying awareness through textile techniques. Each artist in this exhibition integrates sustainable practices into their creative process, making deliberate choices that reflect a deep respect for the environment and a desire to influence the future of design positively.

The exhibition will be open daily from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

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The artists for this show are four graduate students from the Swedish School of Textiles: Boukje Kemper Hedda Lundström, Josephine d'Avis and Marije Dijkstra.

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For Textile Month, Padina will be presenting a surreal collection of art and fashion, produced with groundbreaking textiles that redefine sustainable design. Her initiatives integrate traditional craft into technology, modernizing existing tools and techniques to develop new sustainable systems in textile production.

Through her practice, she has developed many proprietary tools and systems the most notable being a spindle that spins LDPE (aka garbage bags) into a range of monofilament yarns that can be used for domestic or industrial textile production.

The plastics used in this process are sourced from street waste bins. This 0-waste process produces minimal secondary pollution and is more energy efficient than the industrial alternatives. This versatile yarn can be knit, crocheted, laced, woven, braided, and even sewn in a variety of garments, accessories, or framed art.

Inspired by early anatomical, botanical, and entomology imagery; used to build a narrative that explores the impact of plastic pollution on the human body and the environment. Padina's mission is to establish new industry standards, create with purpose, and harness the power of design to contribute to a bright, sustainable, and impactful future.

Visits by appointment only!

www.padinabondar.com

@padinabondar

Padina Bondar is a fashion designer, textile artist, and all-around maker with a passion for beauty and sustainability. In an average week, her work consists of diving waist-deep in recycling bins, felting human hair, dumpster diving, sterilizing tampon applicators, building electronics, designing tools, spinning, weaving, knitting, lacemaking, or simply drawing. She renders “waste” with beauty and value, giving it new life and stopping it from ending up in landfills and oceans. Some notable materials in her portfolio include tampons, cardboard, human hair, straws, wrappers, food waste, and more. Subscribe your trash is her treasure! Join her on her mission to save the planet and change the fashion industry, one plastic bottle at a time.

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Visionary Projects presents Fortnight, a 2-week exhibition in collaboration with Haus Incubator, global fashion innovation agency. The show happens in the heart of Chelsea where art & fashion merge for a Fortnight.

The Haus Incubator event will be held at a stunning 3700 sq ft gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan. The venue is centrally located, easily accessible, and neighboring other showrooms and trade shows, providing an ideal setting for HAUS INCUBATOR. They will incorporate modern and functional design elements to create an engaging atmosphere, including a lounge area featuring a contemporary artist to foster a comfortable and inspiring environment.

Artwork curation and opening night by Visionary Projects.

​Featuring Artists:
Agathe Bouton, Alex Wolkowicz, Bridgette Duran, Caroline Zimbalist, Emily Croteau, Fernanda Uribe, Lærke Lillelund, Marie Heléne Boone, Martina Dietrich, Roberto Godinez

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@visionaryprojectsnyc @hausincubator

Visionary Projects is a global art platform with an active community. We serve as a space for discovery, inspiration and connection. Our mission is to make the contemporary art world more accessible and approachable while working with some of today’s top emerging artists. Through art curation, membership and bespoke events we are able to bring this to life.

Haus Incubator aims to revolutionize the tradeshow and showroom experience by creating a dynamic platform for mission driven independent brands with a strong DNA to connect with industry leaders. Their mission is to provide a curated space where independent brands can showcase their innovative perspectives, foster meaningful connections, and shift industry trends.

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Mending, combining and re-configuring found and vintage textile scraps, Sue creates abstract compositions, essentially painting with fabrics. Her process is slow, deliberate, and instinctual, born of a deep love of fabrics and rooted in the traditions of quilting and mending that she learned as a child. Transforming and repurposing these common, everyday materials she asks the viewer to pause and take a closer look, to consider the histories of these fabrics and the new stories they are telling.

Various Mediums Inc. is a proud member of 1% for the Planet.

Join them in the in the shop to celebrate and view New Work by Sue Allbert of Various Mediums Inc. Refreshments will be served.

Open Hours: Tuesday to to Sunday 12:00PM - 6:00PM 

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@variousmediumsinc

Established over ten years ago, M.PATMOS designs modern wardrobe staples and sophisticated, textural knitwear meant to be passed down to future generations. Focused on high quality and minimizing our environmental impact, they’ve worked with small family owned factories and workshops for many years, merging sustainable artisan hand crafted techniques and technology to create beautiful designs in luxurious, natural fibers. They opened their shop in the fall of 2018 in Brooklyn, New York where they focus on bringing the best from like minded independent designers.

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The Beautiful Forevers

Curator: Margaret Lanzetta

Artists: Steve DeFrank, Tamara Gonzales, Joyce Kozloff, Holly Miller, Margaret Lanzetta, and Sarah G. Sharp

The Beautiful Forevers, an exhibition of contemporary painting in dialogue with historic global textiles, opens on Saturday Sept 7th from 3 -6 pm. A conversation between the artists and Leesa Hubbell, textile designer and batik expert, will be held Saturday Sept 21st at 3 pm. The Beautiful Forevers presents a visual and conceptual dialogue between six artists and textiles drawn from artist Margaret Lanzetta’s extensive collection. This collection began with the acquisition of a blue and white cotton weaving in Luxor, Egypt in 1978. Her diverse collection now includes Guatemalan huipils, African bark cloths, Malaysian songkets, and Indian tie-dyed and block printed fabrics, etc. The title, The Beautiful Forevers, is excerpted from the 2012 non-fiction book by Katherine Boo, chronicling the lives of slum dwellers in Mumbai. These slum dwellers, like many textile artisans, toil anonymously; rarely credited for their work or talents. Yet, like textile artisans, they create works that are beautiful forever. Each artist has an affinity to a significant aspect of textiles: color: Steve DeFrank, symbolism: Tamara Gonzales, politics: Joyce Kozloff, pattern: Margaret Lanzetta, materiality: Holly Miller, and thread: Sarah G. Sharpe.

Regular Opening Hours 1- 6 pm

Sunday Sept 8

Friday Sept 13

Sat Sept 14

Sunday Sept 15

Friday Sept 20

Sat Sept 21 Panel Talk 3 pm with Leesa Hubbell

Closing: Sunday Sept 22

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@lanzetta_studio

In my work, I investigate cross currents of world decorative traditions in relation to contemporary cultural, political, and environmental narratives. I combine the structure of patterned textiles with painting, silkscreening and digital technology to create tactile, layered works that explore conflicting references with centuries-old decorative motifs.

The Beautiful Forevers exhibition presents a dialogue between historical global textiles from the collection of Margaret Lanzetta and six contemporary artists. Artists include Steve DeFrank, Tamara Gonzales, Joyce Kozloff, Holly Miller, Margaret Lanzetta, and Sarah G. Sharp

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‘1/2 Flex' is a three-day exhibition, September 6-8, hosted by Rag Rug Study Group (RRSG) that includes fresh-off-the-loom rag rugs by New York-based artists Mariah Smith and Mae Colburn and invited guest artist, Francesca Martinazzi from Italy. All three use scraps of worn, surplus and discarded fabric to create complex, meaningful compositions that refer to this medium’s domestic function while examining its aesthetic and narrative possibilities. The exhibition title, combining the terms 1.5-bedroom and 2-bedroom flex, refers to the flexible, improvised nature of NYC apartment living. If an apartment can be transformed from a 1-bedroom to a 2-bedroom, why can’t a 1.5-bedroom become a gallery? For this exhibition, RRSG is transforming Smith’s bedroom into an exhibition space to create a viewing environment and discursive context specific to this ‘flexible medium’ of rag rugs. ‘Flexible medium’ is Martinazzi’s interpretation of the title, ‘1/2 Flex,’ translated from English to Italian to English. She points out that this interpretation also evokes Anni Albers’ phrase, ‘pliable plane’.

Register to attend the opening party and / or visit the gallery during open hours.* We will send you an email with address and details.

*During open hours, we invite visitors to bring reworked textiles in all techniques to be documented for RRSG’s digital archive.

Opening Party on Friday, September 6, 6-8pm

Open Hours on Saturday, September 7, 12-6pm

Open Hours on Sunday, September 8, 12-6pm 

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Rag Rug Study Group is a research project that facilitates dialogue about textiles produced using worn, surplus, and discarded materials. They advocate an expansive definition of ‘rag rug’ that includes reworked textiles in all techniques including weaving, knitting, quilting, embroidery, crochet, mending, and sewing. They have a mailing list, host in-person events, and manage an online archive of the work they study. Rag Rug Study Group is a collaboration between New York-based artists and researchers Mariah Smith and Mae Colburn.

This event is FREE.

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Taking time to write down morning notes has been a habit for Tzu Li since 2021. Using words to record everyday life, experiences, emotions and feelings, became a way for Tzu Li to sort out her mind and talk to herself.

One day at the beginning of this year, Tzu Li came up with the idea of translating these morning notes into small pieces of textiles, where her passion always sits in. Furthermore, she’s attracted to the idea of regularly recording something for a while. She found a series of simple and direct, just day-after-day records, can be so powerful, so intriguing.

Inspired by each day’s deepest thoughts or feelings, Tzu Li translated these messages into her textile languages among knitting, weaving, quilting, mending, and many other techniques. Being familiar with playing with colors and textures, Tzu Li used left-over, recycled, or vintage yarns and fabrics she collected over time, and manipulated with different techniques to represent her 50 days of morning notes.

www.tzulihsu.com

@t.z.u.l.i.l.i.h

Tzu Li Hsu is a knitwear designer and textile artist graduated from Parsons School of Design. In 2016, Tzu Li launched her knitwear label, to create and bring yarns and knits to more of those who share the same value of cherishing quality and details.

Over the past few years, with her fashion background, Tzu Li has developed from single medium of clothing to further interpretations in terms of textile throughout her creative journey. Having lived in New York, London and Taipei, Tzu Li embraces diverse cultures and experiences, which shapes her visual sensibility on textiles. Her work revolves around personal experiences and narratives in life, and continuously conveys the same context of colors and textures in diverse forms through different textile elements.

This event is FREE.

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Loop of the Loom is pleased to invite you to the exhibition "YOROKE-ORI: Ondulé Weaving" by Yukiko Yokoyama, one of Japan's leading contemporary hand weaving artists.

With a weaving experience spanning 50 years, Yokoyama founded her textile studio Dream Weaver (夢織りびと) in Japan in 1977 and has since opened classes in three cities, nurturing numerous students. As she explored through teaching, Yokoyama has been particularly captivated by the allure of yoroke-ori, and has developed her unique techniques one after another combining them with dyeing techniques. "Yoroke" is the weaving that is characterized by wave-like patterns created by altering the spacing of warp threads using specialized fan-shaped reeds, and Yokoyama is one of the few Yoroke weavers in the world.

This solo exhibition in New York, after a hiatus of 8 years, aims to present a culmination of her yoroke-ori work to date, bridging it to the next generations. The artist, Yokoyama, will bring her works and passion from Japan to attend the event and hopes that many people will have the opportunity to see and learn about yoroke-ori. Loop of the Loom will host her weaving and dyeing workshop during New York Textile Month.

This exhibition is a rare opportunity to admire Yokoyama's breathtaking textile artworks, combining her yoroke-ori with warp dyeing, leaving a profound impression on all who visit.

Reception party: Thursday, October 3, 6pm - 8pm

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@loopoftheloom

Loop of the Loom is a wonderful retreat for those seeking relaxation through textile art. It allows participants to unleash their infinite creativity using looms and various textures. Since 2005, we have offered "Zen weaving" a free-spirited approach to weaving with SAORI's weaving philosophy that breaks away from traditional weaving concepts.

At our two weaving dojos, we sell Japanese natural dyes, organic yarns, and SAORI looms, carefully curated with sustainability and wellness in mind and suitable for environmentally conscious crafters.

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Gallery 1923 presents the exhibition Monuments, featuring artists Natasha Boycko and Elisa Lutteral. Their work engages in a dialogue on structures, constructions, and temporality, exploring the spaces these concepts inhabit.

Natasha Boycko is an artist from Moscow, Russia, currently living and working in NYC. Her work is centered around the relationship between concrete and textiles. In this work she thinks about the paradoxes of static bodies and static images, especially as they relate to material memory.

Elisa Lutteral is an artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina, currently living and working in NYC. Her work encompasses soft sculptures and installations, primarily employing textiles. In recent years, she has integrated performance and film into her practice. This body of work explores symbols of permanence, questioning the traditional association of power with materials that resist the passage of time.

Opening: 09/06/2024, 5:00 - 8:30 PM
Exhibition Dates: Open until 09/15/2024
Visits: By appointment only

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@elilutteral

@natashaboycko

Elisa Lutteral (born 1992, NY, U.S) is an Argentinean multidisciplinary artist based in New York, U.S. Lutteral attended the University of Buenos Aires (FADU, 2015), where she later worked as a lecturer and teacher (2016). She holds an MFA in Textiles from Parsons, The New School for Design (2023). Elisa has participated in the Sakata Orimono residency in Hirokawa, Fukuoka, Japan, the Emma Kreativzentrum Pforzheim Residencya, Pforzheim, Germany, and the NYLAAT residency program, New York, U.S. in 2024 . Lutteral has recently received the VSC/Windgate Artist Fellowship and will be attending the Vermont Studio Center residency, in Johnson, Vermont, U.S., and the HDTS residency, Joshua Tree, U.S. in 2024. Her work has been exhibited at Talente in Munich, Germany, Laguna Mexico during Mexico Art Week and Super Gallery, Vienna, Austria. Her work has also been exhibited at L Space Gallery, Picture Theory Gallery, 1923 Gallery, and PTM Contemporary in New York, U.S.

Natasha Boycko (born 1998, Helsinki, Finland) is an artist from Moscow, Russia, based in New York. Boycko holds a BA in Philosophy and Visual Art from Brown University (2021) and an MFA in Textiles from the Parsons School of Design (2023). She has been exhibited at 81 Grand, Gallery 1923, Arte Morbida and AREA in New York, NY, as well as David Winton Bell and List Gallery in Providence, RI.

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Tempest gallery presents the exhibition Welcome Stranger.

“The study & practice of craft is [] a form of material resistance against ethnic cleansing, genocide and occupation.”-Jenna Hamed

“The stranger, on the other hand, can also easily become and already is each one of us, as we exist as both subjects to ourselves and objects to others in the world.” -Laurel V. McLaughlin, “As Strangers And Refugees: Olu Oguibe’s Performing Monument” in Monument Lab.

For September 2024 NY Textile Month, a group of artists will present new work on layette pincushions. Titled Welcome Stranger, the group show will focus on amuletic craft and Palestinian steadfastness.

The current genocide and displacement of Palestinians stands in discussion with the hopeful beauty and labor inherent in these objects. We see layette pincushions as a punctum of resourcefulness, resilience, and evidence of a gifting culture amongst a community that supported each other through the serious mortal threat that childbearing and birth could be. Currently, giving birth in Gaza is more dangerous than it was for the Victorian women sewing layette pincushions in the 1800s. 

The threads tying Victorian layette pincushions to Palestinian resistance are imaginary, but we are interested in the way material culture and especially amuletic or emotionally charged objects can widen our lens with which to see current events.

Research on the themes in Welcome Stranger by Lauren Bradshaw & Jenna Hamed will accompany the exhibition.

Please visit to see works by Taesha Aurora, Amir Badawi, Lauren Bradshaw, Katherine Earle, Francisco echo Eraso, Gigi Gruenburg, Jenna Hamed, Clare Hu, Vandana Jain, Ayqa Khan, Amalya Megerman, Theo Trotter, Defne Tutus and Natasha Vega.

Regular gallery hours: Wed-Sat 1-6pm

@tempest.gallery

At TEMPEST, we want to talk about art in a maelstrom. We invite artists to be unafraid to broach difficult conversations and address colonial structures of violence through their practice in textiles, sculpture and installation. Through our programming and events, we aim to create community and a space for gathering, presenting work and building relationships in Ridgewood Queens.

We are open to scheduled visits outside of regular hours, please direct message us on instagram @tempest.gallery

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NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST

Peter Knapp unites the world with his Fashion photography

Curated by Joji Mita

Hideo Yamakuchi Presents Textile Art in Tribute to Peter Knapp’s North South East West Exhibition

Peter Knapp is the legendary Swiss artistic director and influential photographer who unintentionally but indelibly inspired Japan’s media landscape with his pioneering fashion photography. In 1959, Hélène Lazareff, founder and editor-in-chief of French Elle, entrusted Knapp with the artistic direction of the magazine. Knapp’s innovative approach to applied fashion photography captivated the public and left a lasting impression in Japan, leading to the launch of an an / Elle JAPON in March 1970 by Heibon Shuppan, Co., Ltd. (now Magazine House, Ltd.), as a licensed extension of Elle in Paris. 

Growing up in a renowned textile weaving family, Hideo Yamakuchi developed a passion for fashion and photography inspired by an an / Elle JAPON. The image chosen for his tapestry features the work of KENZO, aka designer Kenzo Takada, who, like Yamakuchi, is an alumnus of Bunka Fashion College. This intergenerational connection underlies their collaboration.

As Peter Knapp pioneered applied fashion photography, Yamakuchi invented photo-weaving, integrating personal “memories” into his textiles using unique weaving techniques. Traditionally, tapestries are limited to themes like religious paintings or picturesque landscapes. By merging this craft with digital technology, Yamakuchi enables weaving personal memories into his textiles. 

Yamakuchi’s artistic theme, “encounter daily memories through woven memory,” is a tribute to Peter Knapp’s remarkable contributions to applied fashion photography 

Open Hours

Wed – Sun: 11am – 6pm

Closed: Mon – Tue

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Born in 1962 in Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture, Hideo Yamakuchi is the third generation in his family’s weaving business. After graduating from Bunka Fashion College in 1988, he blended traditional weaving techniques with digital technology in 1990 and launched his artistic career in 1992.

Yamakuchi is an artist who portrays images through textiles, with “memory” as the central theme of his works. He likens the weaving process with warp and weft threads to the mechanism of memory in the brain, weaving his own photographs into textiles. In 1997, his book “Weaving Memories” attracted the attention of Jack Lenor Larsen. President of the American Craft Museum (now the Museum of Art & Design) in the U.S., leading to a solo exhibition at the Larsen Foundation’s Long House Foundation Gallery.

His works are part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Art & Design, and other museums. Yamakuchi has also produced numerous public works in Japan, including an official tapestry portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand and a portrait of the Otocho of Sensoji Temple.

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The exhibition "Tentacular Threads" delves into the intricate relationship between hybridity, the experience of everyday, and the process of making to explore how desperate elements converge to create new narratives and experiences. Featuring artists Natalie Adgnot, Frid Branham, Rina AC Dweck, Kathie Halfin, Yudit Katz, Elizabeth Tolson, the show investigates the concept of tentacular thinking—a term coined by scholar Donna Haraway to describe a holistic approach to consciousness. Tentacularity acknowledges the multiplicity of converging and expanding threads of sentience that co-exist together, much like tentacles that allow organisms to sense, feel, and interact with their environment.

These artists explore "Tentacularity" through diverse materials and tactile experiences to connect with one another and the world around us, re-imagining the possibilities and forms of fiber art. Adgnot contrasts objective facts with cognitive biases through sculptures inspired by bird-related idioms and includes materials such as horse hair and thermoplastic to mark chapters of her life. Branham highlights the marks and flows in our environment left by nature and community through the practices of crocheting and drawing. Dweck's hair sculptures are intertwined with juxtapositions, braiding together organic and synthetic materials to reflect everyday diversity, while Halfin's woven sculptures re-establish a connection with diverse life forms through activation of human senses. Katz’s weavings evoke the architecture of the human body, inviting contemporary connections in fiber art, and Tolson creates ceramic looms threaded with delicate textiles to explore themes of fertility and motherhood. 

The exhibition celebrates diverse forms of making, with artists communicating their hand-woven, sewn, braided, and crocheted narratives through haptic labor. Utilizing materials such as paper, raffia, human and animal hair, clay, discarded items, and found objects, they build bonds with their everyday surroundings. Through their work, these artists collectively emphasize the interconnectedness of lived experiences, natural environment and cultural narratives, creating a rich tapestry of sensory and conceptual engagement that bridges gaps in understanding of contemporary fiber art.

Opening event: September 5th 5-8pm

Open Hours:

September 7th 12-4 pm 
September 12th 12-4 pm 
Or by appointment during the week

Closing event: September 19th 6-8 pm

Exhibition: September 5th to 19th

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@eclectic_body

Kathie Halfin was born in Crimea, Ukraine and raised in Israel. She is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and educator working in fiber media, installation and performance art. Halfin earned her Masters with honors in Fine Arts from the School Of Visual Arts, (NY) and Bachelors from Shenkar College in Israel. Halfin presented her work in group exhibitions at the Bronx Museum AIM Biennial (NY), The Immigrant Artist Biennial, (NY), AIR Gallery (NY), NARS Foundation (NY), and Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, NY. Halfin had a solo show at the Ely Center Of Contemporary Art, New Heaven, (CT).

Halfin presented her performances at the Immigrant Artist Biennial: Contact Zone, Itinerant Performance Festival in Smack Mellon ( NY), Knockdown Center: Sunday Series, (NY), Art In Odd Places Performance Festival, (NY) among others.

Halfin has been an Artist-in-Residence at The Icelandic Textile Center and SIM Residency in Iceland . She was an AIM fellow at the Bronx Museum Of Art (NY) and received a full Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. Halfin had two months of full Educational Fellowship at Wassaic Project Residency (NY) and was an artist in residency at A-Z West (CA) and Cha North Residency (NY).

This event is FREE.

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Towards the Path of Totality features works by the 15th cycle of Textile Arts Center’s Artist In Residence program, curated by Romina Schulz.

“Over the past nine months of residency, the artists of AIR15 have tended to their personal histories while caring intimately for their present communities.They have honed in on their processes and found them to be unstill, in transition, seasonal, and in many cases, rejecting any singular resolution by which to define their practices.

Towards the Path of Totality situates the artist as maker and mender, amid shifts of time. They follow the remnants of buried knowledge and behold what may only be found through their own explorations. When established knowledge falls short, they bend and distort to illuminate new realities. 

Through burning, warping, dyeing, burying, forging, sewing and felting, the artist's work traverses passages of healing and rebirth, emerging as vessels forged from a shared ground of intimate discovery. 

Like dreams and memories ever evolving, these works seek to be understood in new ways. Embrace them fully as they are and ask how they came to be.” - Julie Clapton

TAC AIR15: Hera Ford, Carter Shocket, Lovisa Axén, Jimmy Zhao, Audrey Cibel, Nana YaaSerwaah Akuoku, Julie Clapton, Shawna Tang.

Opening Reception: September 5, 6:30pm-9:30pm
Artist Talk: September 10, 6:30-8:30pm

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@textileartscenter

Textile Arts Center (TAC) is a NYC-based resource facility dedicated to raising awareness and understanding of textiles through creative educational programs for children and adults. At TAC, we unite and empower the textile community and advocate for the handmade by providing accessible, skills-based classes that reinvigorate engagement with traditional crafts. Techniques like weaving, sewing, and dyeing are practical, connective, and process-driven—common denominators around the world. They are part of our collective history and vital to our ongoing expressions of design, art, and culture.

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MoMA PS1 presents the first major solo museum presentation of fourth-generation Navajo weaver Melissa Cody (b. 1983, No Water Mesa, Arizona) spanning the last decade of her practice, showcasing over 30 weavings and a major new work produced for the exhibition. Using long-established weaving techniques and incorporating new digital technologies, Cody assembles and reimagines popular patterns into sophisticated geometric overlays, incorporating atypical dyes and fibers. Her tapestries carry forward the methods of Navajo Germantown weaving, which developed out of the wool and blankets that were made in Germantown, Pennsylvania and supplied by the US government to the Navajo people during the forced expulsion from their territories in the mid-1800s. During this period, the rationed blankets were taken apart and the yarn was used to make new textiles, a practice of reclamation which became the source of the movement. While acknowledging this history and working on a traditional Navajo loom, Cody’s masterful works exercise experimental palettes and patterns that animate through reinvention, reframing traditions as cycles of evolution.

@codyedgewater

Melissa Cody is a Navajo textile artist and enrolled member of the Navajo nation. Cody grew up on a Navajo Reservation in Leupp, Arizona and received a Bachelor’s degree in Studio Arts and Museum Studies from Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe. Her work has been featured in The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (2022); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2021); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2019–2020); Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff (2019); SITE Santa Fe (2018–19); Ingham Chapman Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (2018); Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock (2018); and the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe (2017–18). Cody’s works are in the collections of the Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; and The Autry National Center, Los Angeles. In 2020, she earned the Brandford/Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber Art.

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Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other, highlights thirty years of artmaking dedicated to the Black experience in America. The exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of the communal artmaking projects that form the heart of the artist’s pioneering creative practice. Accompanied by a selection of Clark’s photographs, prints, and sculpture, the exhibition will feature five of Clark’s large-scale, collaborative projects, including her barrier-breaking The Hair Craft Project (2014) and the ongoing performance initiated in 2015, Unraveling.

Working with a wide range of emotionally resonant materials and everyday objects—from cotton cloth and human hair to school desks and bricks—Clark encourages audiences to confront the country’s historical imbalances and racial injustices through material transformation. At the same time, Clark celebrates the complexities of the Black cultural experience. The uses of traditional craft materials, her applied knowledge of global craft techniques, and the communal collaborations that are integral to the integrity of her art are among the many ways Clark represents and honors the legacies of the African diaspora in Black life.

madmuseum.org/exhibitions

@madmuseum

The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) champions contemporary makers across creative fields and presents the work of artists, designers, and artisans who apply the highest level of ingenuity and skill. Since the Museum’s founding in 1956 by philanthropist and visionary Aileen Osborn Webb, MAD has celebrated all facets of making and the creative processes by which materials are transformed, from traditional techniques to cutting-edge technologies. Today, the Museum’s curatorial program builds upon a rich history of exhibitions that emphasize a cross-disciplinary approach to art and design, and reveals the workmanship behind the objects and environments that shape our everyday lives. MAD provides an international platform for practitioners who are influencing the direction of cultural production and driving twenty-first-century innovation, and fosters a participatory setting for visitors to have direct encounters with skilled making and compelling works of art and design. For more information, visit madmuseum.org.