Nacida en Portugal y radicada en Ámsterdam, Inês Queirós es una artista textil que busca rastrear las relaciones entre la tela, el color, la tierra y su gente. A través del lenguaje de los tintes naturales, las fibras y la poesía, cuenta historias y analiza los elementos que componen temas como el desplazamiento, sentido de identidad y pertenencia. La obra de Queirós acaba siendo una búsqueda continua de los espacios intermedios como forma de buscar un sentido de pertenencia a ellos. Empezó a estudiar Arquitectura Paisajista en la Universidad de Oporto (Oporto, Portugal) terminando su Licenciatura y Maestría en 2013. En 2018, completó su Licenciatura en Arte y Diseño Textil en la Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam, Países Bajos). Durante sus estudios formó parte de un programa de intercambio en el Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión (Ciudad de México, México) en 2017 y de un programa Erasmus en la Universidad Van Hall Larenstein (Arnhem, Países Bajos) en 2010. Ha participado en exposiciones colectivas en galerías de arte como PuntWG, LAb111, Framer Framed y Zone2Source en los Países Bajos. Actualmente es fundadora de una organización sin fines de lucro llamada TuYo, que tiene como objetivo rescatar y promover las técnicas textiles ancestrales mientras apoya a las comunidades locales con prácticas social y ambientalmente responsables.

We are Al-Wah'at, an artist research collective composed of Areej Ashhab, Ailo Ribas and Gabriella Demczuk, based in Palestine, Spain and the United Kingdom respectively.

We are currently working on "Wild Hedges", a three-year project looking into ecological and socio-political complexities the prickly pear cactus and the cochineal insect across multiple geographies and communities.

We have already done work in Palestine in early 2023, where we examined the recent spread of the false carmine cochineal affecting large swaths of prickly pear cactus in Palestine and did initial experiments with pigment making and weaving of dry cactus fibers.

Cochineal farming is not common in Palestine or other parts of the Mediterranean affected by the recent cochineal infestation, and the insect is rather seen as harmful. Therefore, and as part of our artistic research, we are planning to come to Mexico in spring 2024 (most probably in May) to learn about the long history of nopal and cochineal farming there and get practical insights into pigment making and dyeing. Other aspects of our project involve exploring weaving and culinary practices in relation to the cactus. Our aim is to start creating cross-cultural threads between different communities and geographies.

With a passion for design and textiles, I specialize in product development, sourcing, and creative project management. Currently, I am working on the fruition of my brand 'Nafas' ⁠—a concept project created in exploring abstract and organic creative process through hand-crafted apparel design and metalsmithing. 'Nafas' is a phrase in Arabic that translates to breathing; to desire, to esteem. Outside of work, I enjoy movement through yoga and dance. I am always honing in on my craft, whether that be through natural dyeing, metalsmithing, or illustration. In addition, I speak fluent French, Arabic, English and am learning Spanish.

https://www.stephaniemhanna.com/

I am a creative, well-traveled entrepreneur originally from San Francisco, California now living in Antigua, Guatemala. I have been involved in the design industry for 20+ years and in 2015 I founded Luna Zorro - a custom textile design studio. At Luna Zorro we partner with Maya artisans who receive a fair-trade and sustainable income weaving our original, bespoke textile designs. Luna Zorro weaves custom textiles to-order for an international clientele including private homes, interior design firms and luxury boutique hotels and spas, such as our principle client, Auberge Hotels.

My work constructs narratives of place and connections to lost bodies, through mark-making, photo-documentation and material studies that manifest as textiles and works on paper. My practice is intensely personal. I explore themes of identity politics, domesticity, land and memory access, in relation to my lived experience as a Palestinian refugee, a daughter of a disappeared casualty of the Gulf War and an artist.

I inherited from my father a Lebanese travel document for Palestinian refugees in place of a passport, some personality traits as described by others who knew him, and a letter. This letter became a cornerstone in my journey into art making and the creation of a metaphor - a pigeon - that appears and disappears throughout my work. In his writing to his family, he describes what my siblings and I are up to, in a way that feels pertinent to our adult characters or paths. Or so, I like to interpret it as. Translated from Arabic, he says “Dina (3 years old) is growing up and becoming more mature everyday, she has the tongue and intellect of an adult. Just yesterday, she was drawing a pigeon (or a dove) followed by other drawings for the family”. Touched by his words and the only tangible memory I can lay my hands on, this pigeon that is in a constant state of searching, circling and landing, became my connection to past and present, my younger self, my artist self and to him.

https://www.dinakhorchid.com/

“When I approach other textile-based artwork as a weaver, textile scholar, educator, and community creator there is an additional layer of intimacy and empathy that I bring to the conversation. Textile tools and processes transmit experience, skill, and knowledge. A maker must have an intimate and comprehensive understanding of the medium in order to implement these things. The textiles, woven by an artist with these acquired abilities, then become carriers of empathy, memory, and lived experience. Textiles are evidence of humanity.”

Edith Hernandez es tejerdora y fundadora del proyecto MadejaJaja.

MadajaJaja es una tienda, taller y laboratorio experimental de hilos y colores. Se apasionan las miles de posibilidades para crear con ellos usando nuestras manos. Les gustan compartir lo que hacen y dan talleres de diferentes técnicas textiles continuamente. Les encantan hacer comunidad con quienes también disfrutan de tejer, bordar y experimentar con textiles.

Oslyn Whizar Toscano (Tijuana B. C. 1977) Vive y trabaja en su ciudad natal. Desarrolla su obra en el medio textil, utilizando diferentes tipos de telas, como sobrantes de una fábrica de manteles en su localidad, recortes de textiles encontrados, así como prendas de segunda mano y accesorios rescatados. Tiene la firme creencia que los textiles son portadores de información más allá del intelecto, que resguardan cultura y registran el tiempo en que vivimos. Y que al momento de ser transformados en piezas de arte cuentan con capacidades singulares de comunicación y transmisión de emociones. Empezó su formación de manera autodidacta (2000), después estudia la licenciatura en artes plásticas que ofrece la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California UABC (2003), pero anterior a esto asiste en algunos talleres de pintura (2002) y toma diversos cursos y diplomados como complementos a su formación (2002 a la fecha) Tales como Taller de gráfica expandida con Magalí Lara en Tijuana en el 2016.

Daniela Nadwornicek was born on October 24, 1989 and lives in Berlin-Neukölln (Germany). She has a master's degree in art history and works as a contemporary art curator. She founded a natural dye studio where she dyes linen fabrics using various techniques. She teaches workshops on natural dyeing, for her local community of Berlin-Neukölln where she lives, but also for school classes in order to pass on knowledge and educate about the devastating consequences of chemical dyeing in the textile industry.

https://www.kemiatelier.com/

Nací en Bogotá, Colombia en 1998. Desde muy pequeña me sentí atraída por los oficios manuales y por la posibilidad de crear desde mi mente y mis manos. Estudié en el colegio en Bogotá y al graduarme viví 6 meses en Florencia, Italia, donde tomé distintos cursos de historia del arte. Volví a Bogotá a estudiar Diseño en la Universidad de los Andes donde seguí explorando diferentes aproximaciones a la creación y la producción material desde la investigación y la conceptualización. Fue ahí donde terminé de enamorarme de los haceres textiles. me gradué de la universidad en el 2022 y he trabajado en diferentes proyectos de producción de moda y textiles desde entonces.
https://lauradiazdangond.com/

Tatiana Castillo es una bordadora Colombia.

Diseñadora y Artista Textil 

Mexicana

Busco retomar técnicas tradicionales y traducirlas a lo contemporáneo, dándole prioridad principal al tiempo de elaboración que los procesos artesanales piden. 

Me interesa la exploración de texturas a través de técnicas textiles meticulosas, que invitan a detenerse y contemplar. En protesta hacia la velocidad del siglo XXI, propongo una velocidad justa que los procesos artesanales exigen y así, encontrar nuevas dichas en el hacer con las manos.

Creadora y Diseñadora Autodidacta Arcelia ha recorrido diversos caminos de la exploración artística. Realizó estudios de actuación y teatro en el estado de Veracruz donde pasó la mitad de su vida y en la ciudad de México donde vivió por un breve periodo. Ha experimentado con el grabado, serigrafía, bordado y dibujo, llevándolos al campo del diseño y arte textil, disciplina en la que se desenvuelve en la actualidad. En el ámbito profesional ha explorado el diseño aplicado a accesorios y ropa; así como, arte utilitario, decorativo y objeto. Ha colaborado en producciones de cine, cortometrajes y stop-motion en las áreas de arte y diseño de vestuario. Cuenta con experiencia en gestión cultural tanto en el campo de la difusión como en la gestión, organización y producción cultural. Su vida cotidiana la dedica al desarrollo de arte textil, ilustración y escritura.

Daniela Chiloiro is an artist based in Portland, Oregon who experiments in different mediums with an underlying emphasis on sustainability. One main medium she works with are murals where she practices in large scale. Other mediums include embroidering and working with collected pieces of textiles and fabric and upcycling them onto anything from lampshades and pillows to jackets and paper. She loves to find discarded pieces of materials such a sticks and stones or trash and incorporating them into pieces along with beadwork and thread. Making takes her to a place of belonging where questions seem to soften and remembering is practiced.

https://www.awakenedbywater.com/

Salomée Souag is a muralist, designer and creative from Switzerland who holds her Peruvian and Algerian ancestors closer to her heart, her community and her work. She currently lives in Portland & prides herself in her multi-cultural identity and encourages others to step outside of the box society has created for them.

Salomée (AKA Sola) has shifted from the corporate advertising world to fully immersing herself in the push for a revolution. In her consistent and continuous evolution and artistic practice, she curates revolutionary work to give power to the people, the youth and artists. By taking up space in all forms, whether through projection mapping and large scale painting, wheat pasting and installations, or workshops for BIPOC artists and the next generation, Souag’s bold and powerful work encourages everyone to break down boundaries and borders, and to imagine expression.

https://salomeesouag.com/

Jennifer İpekel was born in 1988 in Istanbul, where she also currently lives and works. She completed a BFA at Parsons School of Design majoring in Integrated Design. She also completed a MA Fine Arts at Chelsea School of Art London between 2014-2015.

“I am drawn into creating riotous narratives to build an individual mythology for the age that we live in where fact and fiction are uncertain. Notions of power, gender and color are re-imagined. Traveling to unknown territories and looking at inner landscapes, I depict paintings of heroes that remain incomprehensible and purposes unclear. In my narratives, I blend women heroes with cultural beliefs, my aim is to show the ever-changing womanhood, purifying her from materialism and hereby revealing the intellectual power.”

Nació en octubre de 1974, desde pequeña mostró interés por el arte en general, pero especial interés por las artes plásticas.  Economista de profesión por la Universidad Iberoamericana, se ha formado como artista plástica en los talleres de los maestros Marco Bustamante, en la ciudad de Oaxaca, Luis Miguel Valdés en Cuernavaca, Gabriela Epstein en la ciudad de México y Alicia Tormey en Seattle. Ha complementado esta práctica con estudios en Filosofía e Historia del Arte en el Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México y  el Centro Cultural Helénico. Ambas líneas de conocimiento se fusionan y reflejan de alguna manera en su obra plástica, la cual no ha dejado de transitar por distintas etapas estéticas, siempre bajo el influjo de la abstracción y el expresionismo. A través de los recursos visuales, tales como el volumen y las atmósferas, pero sobre todo, el color y las texturas se deja entrever el sentir y la experimentación de nuevos materiales y técnicas que la conducen a una constante búsqueda e innovación en su obra, de ahí la riqueza de imágenes, formas, composiciones y propuestas en la exposición de su obra.

http://priscilavergara.mx/site/

Celebrated Austin-based artist Ysabel LeMay has gained international recognition for her hyper-collage panoramas. She uses a process that combines photographs to create the real world remixed to paradisal perfection, so vividly realized that one feels drawn to step into her immersive tableaux.

Born in Quebec, Canada, LeMay discovered her fascination for the natural world at her family’s cottage in the northern wilderness of the province. But it was the jungle of the advertising world where LeMay honed her visual expression. After 15 years in the industry, she sought a more rewarding path for her creativity, refocusing initially on painting and then photography.

From there, LeMay developed her distinctive technique, called hyper-collage. Her practice, refined over more than a decade, sees her traveling the globe on photographic expeditions, accumulating vast reserves of natural imagery. These she studiously reviews, extracting elements according to her intuition and assembling them into baroque tableaux venerating the undeniable majesty and generosity of nature.

Inspired by her world travels and work with shamans, her latest series launched in 2022. While her technique is high-tech, LeMay’s hyper collage process is instinctual and organic, allowing each piece to dictate its destiny. From a single, simple starting point — an image, a color, an emotion — she follows a meticulous process. After first isolating and extracting elements of her photos, LeMay then weaves them together into intricate compositions of resplendent beauty.

LeMay’s recent pictorial exploration has adopted a more abstract vernacular. Influenced by the knowledge received from connecting with spirit and expressing her reconnection with the earth, LeMay has brought her hyper-collages to a place where they now serve as records of natural splendor perpetually in motion.

Rachel Snack is a weaver and textile conservator. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art in Fiber & Material Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her Master of Science in Textile Design from Philadelphia University.

Rachel is the founder of Weaver House Co., a textile studio, yarn shop and weaving school dedicated to preserving craft tradition through hand-making and weaving education. Her most recent large-scale project is the digital archive and in-print revival of the weaving periodical Warp and Weft.

Rachel has conserved objects for exhibitions at The National Constitution Center, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Fabric Workshop & Museum, The NY Public Library and The Museum of Arts and Design. She has exhibited her work internationally, and taught courses on weaving, fiber dyeing and textile conservation throughout the United States. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Burren College of Art in Ireland and Awamaki in Peru.

Isobel Cross studied Multi-Media Textile Design at Loughborough University in the UK and during this time completed an Erasmus year at Design School Kolding in Denmark. She is currently working as a CMF (Colour, Materials and Finish) Designer for a design consultancy in London called Priestmangoode, during which time she has worked on a wide range of project types within transport and interior design. Her role has focused on defining the look and feel of a space and developing a bespoke material and color palette.

Rachna is based in Chang Mai, Thailand and is the founder of Tikkiwallah. Tikkiwallah produces eco-friendly, handwoven textiles for home and apparel. Their collections are co-created with artisan communities in Thailand and Laos, and combine contemporary designs with traditional craft skills and processes. Rooted in simplicity and functionality, Tikkiwallah textiles are meant to be used, worn, and enjoyed.

https://tikkiwallahmarket.com/

Photo by Aaron Joel Santos

Shamji Bhai Vankar is a master artisan from Bhujodi, Kutch, India. His specialties lie in spinning, dyeing and weaving with wool and cotton fibers, alongside his family members who are also dedicated textile craftspeople.

Mia Greenwald is an artist based in Virginia, USA, whose interdisciplinary practice incorporates weaving, natural dye, ceramics, and video. She explores themes of magic, the body, and the earth through a queer ecology lens, and mobilizes archives to examine current manifestations of the interlocking systems of capitalism, colonialism, and whiteness. She will be graduating this May with an MFA from James Madison University. She attended residencies at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville, MD and the Urban Soils Institute at the SWALE house on Governors Island, NYC.

Bella’s work is primarily focused on functional and sculptural ceramic exploration. She is finishing her third year at university and wants her work to focus on the beauty of everyday life. Exploring questions like why she is drawn to certain types of drinking vessels or certain types of fabrics. These things often go unnoticed day to day but hold much significance in what kind of people we are.

Ana Jimena Fernandez Luna nació en la ciudad de Querétaro en el año 1992, es docente y diseñadora industrial egresada de la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. Estudió la Maestría en Diseño e Innovación en la Facultad de Ingeniería en la UAQ, en la que desarrolló un proyecto de tesis enfocado en la reducción del desecho textil post-consumo. Su área de estudio se enfoca en explorar el potencial que tienen los textiles para fomentar relaciones afectivas y duraderas aprovechando los recursos a través de la reutilización, la participación social y el intercambio de habilidades técnicas. Actualmente dirige el proyecto de Revuelta post-fashion club, con el cual ha desarrollado diferentes talleres enfocados en la reparación textil. Ha sido beneficiada por diferentes apoyos para la comunidad artística de la ciudad de Querétaro.
www.instagram.com/revuelta.club/

Madelline Vicencio’s work conceptualizes the perception of placement. How one's emotional experiences with identity can cope by building an external foundation. The identity can often separate the body from the environment, resulting in a powerful force to manifest a safe space. In her case, these spaces construct physical entities. Subsequently, her recent pieces narrate the middle ground between -- Texas and Mexico, childhood and adolescence, society and isolation.

Madelline Vicencio is an interdisciplinary painter and muralist. Her most notable mural can be found in Houston’s Czech Center Museum where she binds text with bold and symbolic colors in support of immigration within Texas. In Houston, she attended University of Houston with a Bachelor’s in Painting and a Motion Media minor where she’s explored her interest in clay, paint, and found objects. Experimentation with mixed media demonstrates the raw portrayal of "primal expressionism" which she defines as the unveiling of expressed repression. This concept also references the process of her work, requiring openness and the outdoors to fabricate textures with glued paper, recycled textiles, and plaster.

Meirav Ong (b. 1989) creates sanctuaries for listening to elevate voices marginalized within patriarchal systems of religion through textiles, clay, sound recordings, and body-based performances. Meirav has exhibited at The Everson Museum (Syracuse, NY) The Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), Mana Contemporary (Jersey City, NJ), Fowler-Kellogg Art Center (Chautauqua, NY), Rojas + Rubensteen (Miami, FL) and Women Made Gallery (Chicago, IL) among others. She’s the recipient of grants to the Vermont Studio Center, Penland School of Craft, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and Chautauqua School of Art among others. She holds an MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from the University of Michigan. Meirav is cofounder of Well of Wills, a feminist collective creating art at the intersection of spirituality and activism and is currently based on Canarsie and Munsee Lenape lands (Ridgewood, NY).

www.meiravong.com