Daniela Fabrizi is a textile artist and costume designer. Born in Puerto Rico and half Argentinian, she inspires her work in the textile tradition of diverse cultures, her journeys, and in creative reuse as a tool for social change. Daniela has a bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies: Aesthetics in Film from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (2010). She continued her studies by taking courses and workshops independently in cities such as New York, London, Buenos Aires, Sapa (Vietnam), and different cities in Mexico.
Her work experience includes projects in film, theater, advertising, and styling in the music industry, as well as community projects and numerous collaborations in costumes and textiles. Her work for different artists has been seen on distinguished stages such as the Latin Grammys (2017 & 2019) for Residente, the Whitney Biennial (2019) for nibia pastrana santiago, a limited edition collection for the Whitney Museum Shop (2019), Moma PS1 (2022) for Poncili Creation and since 2016 is the personal stylist for singer iLe. Between 2016 and 2019, she served as director of Textiles for 'Loisaida Festival' in NYC as well as director/co-founder of 'Garbagia' Project, both roots to a chain of community projects inspired by sustainability, environmental awareness, and creative reuse as a tool for waste problems.
Through art and the preservation of textile techniques, her key motivation is to educate about reusing and repurposing different materials. All this growth in the topic has led her to be published and known for promoting the subject of creative reuse. Fabrizi is currently developing her projects 'Feria Calle - Feria de Reuso Creativo' where "La Trash Ball" was born in collaboration with Laborivogue community; 'ReHecho' an itinerant community initiative based on conversations about resilience, environmental consciousness and its possible solutions through creative reuse, she is member of Junktown Duende collective dedicated to community art made out of trash, while working on her artisan brand Le Chat Costumier and textile/costumes commissions.
An open atelier and intergenerational perspective on environmental issues,
our relation to waste and its possible solutions.
ABOUT:
ReHecho or The ReMade Project is an itinerant community initiative based on conversations about resilience, environmental consciousness and its possible solutions through creative reuse and textile techniques. It has an educational and social focus while generating conversations among the participants’ individual experiences in relation to waste. This 2nd edition of ReHecho / ReMade will be dedicated to the knowledge of Seniors in our communities, and will consist of a month-long collaborative workshop culminating with an exhibition dedicated to upcycled art through different manifestations.
ReHecho is not only focused on pedagogical approaches of reuse and repurpose, but is rather impulsed by deconstructing the "concept" of upcycling into a natural action of resilience, honoring its real definition and origin in a world run by trends. Moved by the pertinent context of today's environmental issues, climate dislocation from our motherlands, the open atelier aims to raise an experiential awareness on how to generate less waste in our everyday life while recapturing Caribbean and Latin American legacies of creative endurance and making due with what is available. Ultimately, what makes ReHecho special is the ambiance created around it, it is a social multigenerational gathering rather than just a workshop, serving as the soil where new conversations will grow between the mentors, participants, and spectators.
ReHecho/ReMade Project:
A month-long workshop, where individuals will make an object of art by learning or rediscovering different skills using found materials. This all will culminate in an up-cycled art pop-up exhibition dedicated to thoughts and reflections on environmental issues and resilience.
When: Throughout the month of November 2022
Where: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (107 Suffolk St., Lower East Side, NYC) fourth floor Room: 406 (note that there are no elevators in the building at the moment)
Workshops: Wednesdays through Fridays (3PM to 6PM)
Open Studio: Saturdays 1-6PM
Skills: Textiles, Costumes, Drawing, Sculpture, Photography, Mix Media & Collage
Lead Artist and Curator: Daniela Fabrizi and Patricio O’Hea
Additional Workshops will be scheduled with artists and creatives including Lulu Verona and Mujeres en Movimiento
Contact: dani.fabrizi@gmail.com for more information
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/435797260337
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
The curriculum will evolve in phases, in a process of technique discovery of new and/or reclaimed knowledge, to focus on the one that feels right for each participant’s final piece.
1st Phase: Talks and Presentations: Upcycling, Sustainability, Environment. Here they will share their stories, encompassing memories, cultural identities, a historical context where they grew up, and how all of this has to do with their perspective and relation to waste.
2nd Phase: Creative Reuse. Here they will share the "upcycling knowledge" they have already, what techniques they are interested to learn or revive while ReHecho investigates what "upcycling" memory is left in this public, how sacred or not is for them, and how different the experience is from one person to the other (learning from their different realities and backgrounds).
3rd Phase: Drawing and Collage. This section will focus on the first ideas for the final piece considering it could also be the technique of preference for their artwork.
4th Phase: Textiles and Costume Making Techniques. in this section they will repurpose old clothes and/or fabric diving into the concept of recycling/reusing/repurposing and possibly making their own costume.
5th Phase: Sculpture and Mixed Media. Using different materials and tools the idea is to be able to transform an object or create from scratch out of recycled materials.
6th Phase: Artistic photography. Costumes and some other pieces will be documented artistically as another way of exhibiting their piece.
Final Phase: All these phases will lead into the outcome of the residence. In this last stage the group all together and invited artists will be part of the creation of a pop-up exhibition where all the final artwork will be presented.