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Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
Otis, Oregon
I'm an artist in residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. It's a beautiful place where the Salmon River meets the Pacific Ocean. I will be here until the middle of April. Until then I hope your life is filled joy, just like the mist that flies over me here during the morning hours.
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Sitka Center Art and Ecology Open Studios
Otis, Oregon
Open Studio Event at Sitka Center
Come and enjoy the music, reading and art from our Sitka residents. It's on Friday, March 31, 2-5pm
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About Orquidia
Orquidia Violeta is a Salvadoran-American textile artist. Growing up in a dirt-floored farmhouse in Central America, she remembers the embroidered pink dress her mother sent her from the US. Orquidia crossed the US border as a six-year-old refugee and went on to earn an Associate of the Arts degree from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. Exposure to labor exploitation in the garment industry led her to co-found LaborFruit — a prominent artist-cooperative storefront and gallery in Los Angeles specializing in clothing as artform. Living in Portland Oregon, Orquidia continues to challenge herself as a textile artist, exploring new methods and mediums, such as machine and hand embroidery, knitting, weaving, appliqué, beadwork, fabric dyeing, soft sculpture, painting and drawing.
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email contact@orquidiavioleta.com
instagram @orquidia_violeta