Orquidia Violeta is a Salvadoran-American textile artist. Growing up in a dirt-floored farmhouse in Central America, she remembers the embroidered pink dress her mother sent her from the US. Orquidia crossed the US border as a six-year-old refugee and went on to earn...

Sonja Dahl is an artist, writer and lecturer of contemporary art at the University of Oregon. Her work critically explores the cultural, historic, metaphoric and embodied aspects of how textile processes such as indigo dyeing, whitework embroidery and patchwork quilting live within and reflect the values of human societies. She conducts her research and art making from a situated acknowledgment and critical engagement with her white, American, settler identity.

Sarah Brahim’s art practice focuses on collaborative work with artists across mediums. Brahim performs, choreographs, and directs movement professionally across the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Her performances and film works touch on themes of culture, loss, identity, veiling, borders, race, migration, transnational experience, women of color experience, body in landscape and the imprint places leave within us.

This month’s community spotlight features Christopher Dibble, a multi-talented photographer/weaver/entrepreneur and our long-term collaborator, discussing his take on New Traditions.

Artist Lauren Prado works with a variety of textiles in her practice, exploring and challenging representations of the digital images and products which flood our online feeds. We recently had the opportunity to connect with Lauren and discuss her take on the theme of New Traditions, how her creative practice has shifted during our global pandemic, and more.