Tag: textile arts center

  • 150 People Knitting Boobs

    It was 9am on a beautiful Friday morning in Brooklyn, four years ago, the first ever Viacommunity Day, a day of service for all employees of our company.  I was walking up to my wife’s art studio with several bags of bagels.  She was expecting about 50 people that morning. Neither of us expected our CEO to…

  • An Urban Arts Project I Hope You’ll Consider

    The Textile Arts Center’s Artists In Residence Program is a project my wife, Jordana Munk Martin, started a few years ago at Oak Knit Studio, her Brooklyn-based art space.  It’s a one-of-a-kind program that incubates emerging textile artists from around the world, showcases their work, and activates local and national communities around DIY creative projects. There are so many ways…