Collective Care & Justice

Uprooted from our spaces of play, learning, and work, we ask: Who are we engaged in radical imagination with? What healing practices are we nurturing? Where do we laugh and love? How do we undo, mend, and make what we imagine? 

We turn to the land and ancestors to shape our sense of hope and direction. 

Teaching & Learning

Mariatere comes from a varied line of textile workers and artists. Born and raised in Bklyn, she is a teaching artist, CUNY adjunct, yoga teacher, and arts-based researcher. Her 20-year teaching practice is aimed at increasing dialogue, reflection, action, and wellbeing. Her students learn to slow down, work with found and natural materials, and embrace mistakes (the unexpected) as opportunities and part of the journey. 

Approach to Artmaking

Art is understood as a way of being and participating in the world. The artist is at once a thinking, feeling, and embodied being that is driven by the need to make (sense) with their material of choice. Conceived as a dialogue between the artist and their materials, artmaking is freedom in action (Tapias, 2023).

Mariatere Tapias, PhD

Founder, Slow Textiles Art Collective