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Featured Artwork
- Tortuga (Turtle)
- Series: Guardian Spirit
- Artform: flat
- Method: dyeing, embroidery, sewing
- Medium: beads, canvas, fabric, feathers, found-objects, salvaged, upholstery, woven
- Statement: Native American women believe that all people experience three periods in life: birth, finding their guardian spirit, and death. Finding their guardian spirit was essential and it stayed with them until the end of their life.
- Artist: Orquidia Violeta
- Photo 1: Aaron Kuehn
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Current Events
PAST EVENTS
Dealers
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Built Marketplace
You can find my work at My People´s Market in the new Built Oregon Marketplace
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Orquidia Violeta Etsy Shop
A unique shop, where you can find my one-of-a-kind items, like needle cases.
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Pinwheels
Pinwheels is one of Portland’s oldest resale shops.
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.
Contact
email contact@orquidiavioleta.com
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