The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness....
than they would otherwise attain on their own.
Brassai
Katrina Sánchez Standfield is an interdisciplinary Panamanian-American artist. Through fibers and mixed materials she makes vibrant and tactile objects and installations that examine the social and environmental networks in which we function. The intersection in which we relate to ourselves, each other, and our environments is at the center of what inspires her work.
"I began exploring the labor-intensive and meditative process of darning in the interest of mending my partners' tattered and well loved jeans. Since then I've continued mended clothing for others. My hands move through the fabric, weaving thread over and under to rebuild. The wonderful textures created through mending are what influenced me to create giant magnified versions."
Located in what was the original branch of the United States Mint, Mint Museum Randolph opened in 1936 in Charlotte’s Eastover neighborhood as North Carolina’s first art museum
The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness....
than they would otherwise attain on their own.
Brassai
Katrina Sánchez Standfield is an interdisciplinary Panamanian-American artist. Through fibers and mixed materials she makes vibrant and tactile objects and installations that examine the social and environmental networks in which we function. The intersection in which we relate to ourselves, each other, and our environments is at the center of what inspires her work.
"I began exploring the labor-intensive and meditative process of darning in the interest of mending my partners' tattered and well loved jeans. Since then I've continued mended clothing for others. My hands move through the fabric, weaving thread over and under to rebuild. The wonderful textures created through mending are what influenced me to create giant magnified versions."
Located in what was the original branch of the United States Mint, Mint Museum Randolph opened in 1936 in Charlotte’s Eastover neighborhood as North Carolina’s first art museum