Textiles

Museum as Forum, 2024, acrylic and viscose yarn. Displayed in "Co-Crafting Democracy" exhibition at the Women's Hall of Fame.

One of the tenets of a functioning democracy is the availability and distribution of public goods. New York City-based museums, which already produce educational programming, have grown increasingly aware of their responsibility as democratic forums and as providers of non-educational public goods, particularly in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. One such institution, the American Museum of Natural History, volunteered the Hall of Ocean Life as a vaccination site in April 2021. To this day, the Hall’s iconic full-scale blue whale model sports a Band-Aid, itself a fabric, proudly representing the AMNH’s efforts in mitigating New York City’s public health crisis. This tapestry, an abstracted depiction of the blue whale, features a curling bandage, a call for museums to continue following institutions like the AMNH’s example of supporting and providing accessible services to its public.

Untitled, 2024, wool, silk, cotton, viscose yarn

April Aglow II, 2024, acrylic, wool, silk, cotton, viscose yarn

April Aglow, 2024, acrylic, wool, silk, cotton, viscose yarn

Untitled, 2024, acrylic, wool, silk, cotton, viscose yarn

Improvisation II, 2024, acrylic yarn

Horizon, 2.18, 4:17 PM, 2024, acrylic yarn

Improvisation I, 2024, acrylic yarn

Patterns

Illustration based on props and costumes from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, 2020, gouache and digital art

Illustration based on props from Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, 2020, gouache and digital art