I’ve failed to create a mini series for February, but I have been busy making art and teaching and building my business!
What I've been up to:
I started teaching an online art program at KAPPA international school for the Center for Urban Pedagogy
I took photos with me, my art, and a sofa for a collaboration with the Brooklyn Space. Photograph above is by Sean Patrick Watters.
I finished a garment via the Garment Weaving class I took at the Textile Art Center taught by Isa Rodrigues.
I finished some new work (below) and am working on my first official textile art commission.
I got rejected for a lot of things (including the MFA program at Hunter), but also accepted for an upcoming art book by Jen Tough Gallery and the Fantastic Fibers art show at Yeiser Art Center in Kentucky!
I released a few new episodes of my podcast/video series First Coat.
I started a new semester of NYC Crit Club and a drawing class.
I've been helping to organize the new DSA Latinos Socialistas
I've been running my business Distill Creative and helping my clients bring more art to their spaces
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Ok, I'm off to the studio! Better late than never.
-Stephanie
Some new work:
24” x 36” x 4”
Oil and wool on canvas.
Part of my Toto with Moon series that explores the erasure of indigenous cultures as a result of colonization and capitalism, including the assimilation of my Chicana family, both in central Mexico and more recently in Los Angeles, California, and Phoenix, Arizona. Drawing inspiration from Huichol art and mythology, Zapotec weaving, my own memories, family research, and literature, I create imagery that helps me reclaim and understand my mestizo heritage.
42” x 36” x 7”
Wool, wire, cotton
In this piece, I am trying to shape time. The piece can be reconfigured into different shapes and forms by pressing on the weaving. You can hang it in a variety of shapes.
This work is [art of my Toto with Moon series that explores the erasure of indigenous cultures as a result of colonization and capitalism, including the assimilation of my Chicana family, both in central Mexico and more recently in Los Angeles, California, and Phoenix, Arizona. Drawing inspiration from Huichol art and mythology, Zapotec weaving, my own memories, family research, and literature, I create imagery that helps me reclaim and understand my mestizo heritage.
The final photo shown is by Sean Patrick Watters as part of a collaboration with Brooklyn Space. You can purchase the sofa at Brooklyn Space.
Photography by Sean Patrick Watters for Brooklyn Sofa’s artist partnerships series.
Huipil I was designed and hand weaved by me. Special thanks to Isa and the Textile Art Center for their support in the Garment Weaving class.