Isa Rodrigues is an artist and educator currently based in Brooklyn, New York and Lagos, Portugal.
Through research and practice, she explores how textiles are intimately connected to the body, the land, and memory; and how this information is archived in the materials, structures and processes, like a code, a language. She is also interested in exploring art education as a means to create community and preserve material culture.
Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Art and Design, the Cooper Hewitt Museum, Ace Hotel Brooklyn, Heirloom Brooklyn and the Textile Arts Center. Isa is a founding team of the Textile Arts Center (TAC), where she has worked as Co-Executive Director, and founded the project Sewing Seeds, activating natural dye gardens in empty lots and community gardens in Brooklyn. She also runs a textile fabrication business, 505 Textiles, through which she has created work for clients such as Altuzarra, Gabriela Hearst, Ace Hotel, M.Patmos, Thompson Street Studio, amongst others. She teaches textile materiality, weaving, natural dyeing and other surface design techniques at TAC, Ox-Bow, Rhode Island School of Art, Pratt Institute, and other venues.
See my CV here. For inquiries, to put me to work or just to say hi, email: srodrigues.isa@gmail.com
INTERVIEWS + SELECTED PRESS
Heirloom Brooklyn, September 2021
Behind the Scenes with Isa Rodrigues, Araks Journal, August 2021