Artists

Gabrielle Ferreira is a textile designer and artist working in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Her work examines contemporary interiors, kitchens, living rooms and dining spaces. These works have most recently been featured at the Providence Art Club and Marion Art Center. She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History from Wheaton College in Massachusetts in 2012 and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Rhode Island School of Design in 2019.

Maris Van Vlack is a Massachusetts-based fine artist working at the intersection of textiles and painting. Her large-scale tapestries are woven by hand and are then layered with paint, embroidery, and gesso to create surreal architectural landscapes. Each piece is a balance between the materiality of the fibers and the atmosphere created within the deep pictorial space. The landscapes that appear in the work depict architectural spaces from her family’s history, referencing photographs of places where family members lived in Europe that were destroyed during World War II. Her work is a window through which to see layers of time and memory, depicting the space that exists between the past and the present.

Sarah Barkowski (b. 1997 Memphis, Tennessee) is an artist and designer who studied at the Pratt Institute before finishing her Communications Design degree at Roger Williams University. Her work explores the beauty of the everyday and her interest in the relationships between the self, the world, and experience has led her to explore the communicative power of various mediums, including animation, board game design, and illustration. Her connection to environmentalism and art led her to the sustainable textile house in 2021 when she joined as a graphic designer.