about

From the time I was a kid I have been passionate about traditional fiber art techniques. When I moved to the United States in the early ’90s, I started exploring media such as quilting and hand spinning.

Since 2010 I became particularly interested on how artistic intervention can be an opportunity for community engagement and I started designing and coordinating Graffiti Knitting and Community Weaving projects. In the past 10 years, Wet Felt Making has become my main medium.

From 2012 to 2015 I worked and showed at Studio15 of the Arts Walk in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington DC. In the spring of 2016 I joined Potomac Fiber Arts Guild and Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery. Since 2017 I have been part of the Glen Echo Park Partnership for the Arts’ teaching body with classes in knitting, felting, Nuno felt and fiber arts related camps for kids.  At the moment I am maintaining a fiber art studio in my home in Takoma Park, MD.

2018

Art Hop. Takoma Park, MD

2017

-Artful Attire. Popcorn Gallery at Glen Echo Park Partnership for the Arts

-Art Hop. Takoma Park, MD

-Creative Craft Council, 31st biennial Exhibition. Strathmore Visual Arts Center

-47th Labor Day Art Show. GEPPA

-Organic Growth, Megan Bush & Annalisa Leonessa. Stone Tower Gallery

2016

-202 Art Festival at Canal Park, Washington DC.

Planned and coordinated a collaborative yarn bombing project with a   grant from National Endowment for the Arts.

-The Art of the Scarf. Live an Artful Life Gallery, The Plains VA

-Art Hop. Takoma Park MD

-Fiber National. Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton VA

2015

-Planned and coordinated a Yarn Bombing project for the facade of Scrap DC

2014

-Planned and coordinated a Yarn Bombing project for Monroe St. Bridge

-Why Takoma, collaborative public art project.

Old Town Takoma Park Recycling Art Project

2013

-Fairy Ring, collaborative public art project.

Old Town Takoma Park Recycling Art Project

 

2012

-Immigrants Forest, collaborative public art projects.

Old Town Takoma Park Recycling Art Project