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Collaborative community artmaking
Ascent/Dissent: Flags for Peace
(In)Visible Textile LaborOngoing study and performance of textile crop cultivation and labor, including flaxâ€“u003elinen and multiple species of indigoâ€“u003edye and resist embroidery.
States of Emergenc(y)e
(Un)spoken Family HistoriesTranslating family legend and myth, oral histories, written and photographic documents into textiles
Native/Immigrant City
Breaking the Glass CeilingGlass and fiber have numerous connotations. Here, I bend, twist and recontextualize words we commonly associate with glass (breakable, transparent, clear, fragile, delicate) and fiber (domestic, spinsterish, traditional, conservative, quaint, womenâ€™s work) to show how those same words reveal our assumptions about each other based on race, age, ethnicity, country of origin, native language.
Selfies and Latergrams
Were I So Besotted
- The Brooklyn Love Exchange
Post-its/Tweets
Reach Out and Touch Me: Selfies and Ussies
FiberGraf
Custom embroideries
CurationIn addition to being a practicing visual artist, Iviva has curated exhibits of work by professional artists and student artists since 2014.

Cultivating Indigo from Seed to Dye in Brooklyn, NY

Indigofera Tinctoria (tropical indigo) budded unexpectedly in my tree pit after I dumped what I thought were failed seeds in soil outside. Summer 2017.

Thanks to support from Puffin Foundation West, allowing me to produce indigo from seed to dye in Brooklyn, and to provide dyeing workshops incorporating context about tropical indigo as a colonial American cash crop.

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July 16, 2017

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