Cross - Stitching

Develop cross-stitching patterns focused on the U.S. Endangered Species Act, and teach this stitch style to youth. Group Exhibition. Thread the Needle for Nature: Craft Advocacy for Conservation (cross-stitching), LA County Fair Adult Home Arts Exhibitor, Los Angeles, CA (2024). Received ribbon.
Designed and instructed the Mindful Cross Stitching class, integrating mindfulness with fiber art to explore endangered species. Richmond Art Center (2025).
Facilitated a virtual workshop guiding youth on the fundamental techniques of cross stitching sponsored by Google’s Women Techmakers. Downtown Magnets High School, Los Angeles Unified School District (2024).

Crochet

Group Exhibition. The Quiet Bloom (crochet art), 3rd annual Express Yourself – Level Up Community Art Installation, Hercules Public Library, Hercules, CA (2025).
Developed a Do-It-Yourself Fiber Arts workshop based on student interest in knitting and crochet as the Co-President and Social Chair of the Cornell Latino Graduate Student Coalition (2010).

Teaching Assistant for FSAD 2370 Structural Fabric Design in Cornell University’s Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design for 20 undergraduate students per year for two years (2010 - 2011).

Handheld loom (twill weave)

Flower pounding on textiles and paper.
Created the Petal Power Art class featuring hands-on techniques to extract pigments for beautiful botanical prints on paper and cotton fabric. Richmond Art Center (2025). Flowers provided by the Urban Tilth and the Cloverfield Farms in the SF East Bay.

Reactive fiber dyes and indigo on natural fabrics.
As Co-President of the Fiber Science & Apparel Design Journal Club, I facilitated tie-dye demos during the largest outreach activity of the year for the department, Cornell University Fiber Day (2011).

Tie-Dying

On natural fabrics.

Applied decorative forms.
Led Mini Makers!, a drop-in class for infants and toddlers accompanied by their parent as a fun introduction to art. Richmond Art Center (2025).
Co-led Art Tours of Fall 2025 exhibitions for 50 to 60 students from Chavez and Grant elementary schools in Richmond. Richmond Art Center.