In the Spotlight
Residencies, Exhibitions, and Media Highlights
Tramando is a workshop series by Taller Puertorriqueño created to explore traditional textile arts, preserve cultural heritage, and foster economic opportunities through creative collaboration.
Community Art Installation:
These workshops will culminate in the creation and installation of a public textile-art piece to be permanently hosted at Taller Puertorriqueño.
Tramando Visiting Artist Workshops:
Trama Antillana: Natural Dye Techniques & fiber Spinning
Trama Textiles: Backstrap Weaving from an all women’s collective from Guatemala
Carmen Arteaga: Mundillo Lace making from Puerto Rico
Inspired by Mort Garson's beloved 1976 album of the same name, Plantasia features 11 Philadelphia-based artists focusing on flora and the organic world. Like the album, COMMONWEAL’s exhibition of fun and earthy works explores how art nurtures the cycles of growth within us ensuring that nature’s constant rhythm encourages the potential for new development and change. COMMONWEAL, like Garson, believes in the nurturing capacity of art as a reminder of our incredible resilience.
Featuring 20 Philadelphia-based artists paired in ten teams of two, this exhibition of all new collaborative artworks focuses on how artists find common ground and inspire others to work together and cooperatively arrive at their goals.
Collaboration with: Isabella Akhtarshenas (Ceramicist) & Richie Lopez (textile Artist)
Crafted Earth: Fire and Fibers (Collaborative Artist Statement)
Crafted Earth is the collaborative body of work by ceramicist Isabella Akhtarshenas and textile artist Richie Wilde Lopez. In our process, we celebrate the beauty of earth-derived materials and what they can provide, combining the ancient traditions of ceramics and textile making to create new and exciting objects. Rooted in their shared commitment to craftsmanship and culture, their work invites you to explore the intimate connection between the handmade and the natural world. Each piece is designed with intention to find its place within the sanctuary of the home.
Target: Mas Que Latino Heritage Month Artist 2023
Selected artist to design merchandise for Target stores nationwide. Inspired by Puerto Rican themes of Nature.
Items include:
Set of 2 journals (Notebooks)
Coffee Mug (Cafecito Mug)
Floral Garment/Shirt
Selected as one of four artists for a remote residency, I was chosen to create a community arts installation funded by Gist Yarn. This project involved collaborating with the youth of the Norris Square Neighborhood Project in Philadelphia.
About the Project:
In collaboration with the youth from the NSNP, we explored the significance of public art and what it means to contribute to a piece that will reside in their neighborhood.
Over six weeks, students learned to weave on rigid heddle looms, creating their own textile art pieces.
Using these pieces, we discussed the significance of "home" as the main theme. The students then helped design and create a textile art installation. This installation, made of wood and featuring their textiles, was constructed in the "Raíces Garden" in Norris Square as a public work of art.
LUX surveys cutting-edge visual language by Philadelphia designers whose incisive, playful and innovative approaches to materiality and function help define contemporary tastes locally and beyond. Featuring lighting, clothing, furniture, tapestries, illustrations and more, LUX delights with unique objects that reframe and enhance how we experience the spaces we inhabit
Love Embroidery Magazine: Issue 28 2022
Highlight Feature: Meet the Maker
*Duende Textiles was formerly known as “Brujologie”
Marshfield School of Weaving: Scholarship Recipient 2021
Awarded a scholarship to participate in a Barn Loom weaving workshop where we made this Irish Wedding blanket
Weaverhouse: Weaving Apprentice 2021 + Illustrator for Weaving Guide
Studio Weaving apprenticeship
Find the Illustrations for the Weaving Guide HERE
