This week on First Coat we have Isa Rodrigues. Isa is a textile artist and educator from Portugal, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the Co-Executive Director at Textile Arts Center and teaches weaving and surface design. Isa has created textiles for different public space settings and shares her perspective on weaving, dyeing, and the hand made.

In this episode we talk about how she creates textiles for commission projects, how she plans out a weaving project, the ultimate public art, and what’s inspiring her right now.

This interview was recorded in June 2021.

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LINKS

• Isa’s Woven Garments for Altuzarra

• Textile Arts Center

• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler

• Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler

• Lenore Tawney

• Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe catalogue

• Exhibition Review: Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe

• Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe Panel Discussion

• How Microbatch Textiles Became Cool in the NY Times

Guest | Isa Rodrigues, Artist & Co-Executive Director of Textile Arts Center

Isa Rodrigues is a textile artist and educator from Portugal, currently based in Brooklyn, New York. After receiving her MA in Textile Conservation in 2008, she moved to New York to work and learn from the textile collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2010, she joined the founding team of the Textile Arts Center, where she still currently works as Co-Executive Director and teaches weaving and surface design.

Isa likes to experiment and create with weaving and natural dyes, and her best ideas tend to appear to her in dreams.

Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Art and Design and the Cooper Hewitt Museum, and she has created work for clients such as Altuzarra, Gabriela Hearst, M.Patmos, Google, ED by Ellen, Thompson Street Studio, amongst others. 

Find Isa on Instagram @aiessei and on her website at www.isarodrigues.net.

Your Host | Stephanie Eche, CEO & Founder of Distill Creative

Stephanie Eche is an artist and art consultant based in Brooklyn, NYC.
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