Provenance

Sophia De Jesus-Sabella is an artist, weaver, and educator based in Hartford, Connecticut. Influenced by her blue-collar upbringing, her woven and sculptural works interrogate class, gender, queerness, and utility by combining traditional handweaving with found construction materials. She graduated with Departmental Honors in Fibers from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has been an Artist in Residence at ACRE, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Hartford Artisans Weaving Center. She has shown with Distillery Gallery, MassArt Art Museum, Hudson Valley MOCA and Atlantic Gallery. 

Soull Ogun explores the relationship between ancient metal fabrication techniques, contemporary philosophy, solar technology, and the reimagining of Afro-Futurism in her jewelry and sculptural practices, utilizing metalsmithing techniques that encompass and encourage a rich history of blending regality with science. Ogun is co-founder and head designer of L’Enchanteur, a jewelry, clothing, and lifestyle incubator that seeks to redefine the meaning of an heirloom.

Ogun has created bespoke jewelry for artists including Ms. Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, and Beyoncé in the film Black is King. She was formerly the lead jewelry designer for 3.1 Philip Lim and earned her BA from Morgan State University.

Patricia Orpilla uses an interdisciplinary process to create paintings, prints, and textiles. Her recent work is interested in the relationship of text to textiles. Her prints use indexical relationships between woven texture and bit mapping to draw relationships between systems that are materially or metaphorically interdependent. She is interested in the potential of material metaphors to engage questions around authorship, industry, and ideology. She references various archives for fingerprints of these narratives -- weaving patterns, religious texts, or ethnographer’s notes become her source material. She received her MFA from Yale School of Art in painting and printmaking. She has been an artist resident at the Museum of Arts and Design and a fellow at the Beinecke Library where she researched ephemera such as maps and religious texts around 19th-century U.S.-Philippines relations. She has recently shown her work at Jeffrey Deitch, Kiosk Gallery, Front/Space, Beggar's Table, Vulpes Bastille, and H&R Block Artspace. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Using ancient felt-making, dyeing and textile techniques found in India and around the world, Sagarika Sundaram creates abstract wool compositions that draw from nomadic architecture, history, philosophy and folk art. The artist explains, “In Hindi, there’s this idea of ‘roti, kapda, makan,’ food, clothing and shelter – three basic needs in life. I relate these to the fields of agriculture, textiles and architecture; building blocks of every civilization.” Some works are meant to be activated by the human body, on occasion by walking through them. The work references classical Tamil poetry, a literary tradition that evokes inner psychological landscapes through erotic descriptions of nature. Sundaram describes how, “Through an intricately patterned, shredded surface that expresses chaos and control, the work employs an abstract language that reinterprets textile as mutant, botanical, and psychedelic.” 

Mia Wright-Ross is a leather artisan, designer, educator, and entrepreneur. She is the Creative Director and Founder of MWR Collection, and is currently a faculty member at Parsons School of Design. Previously, Wright-Ross was Footwear and Accessories Designer for brands including Tibi, 3.1 Phillip Lim, and Calvin Klein. She received a BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons The New School of Design, and has trained at the Ecco Tannery Holland and Arsutoria Institute in Milan.