This workshop reimagines weaving as a profound act of connection—a bridge between body and territory, memory and matter, image and time. Using Vicuña’s work within the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) collection as our conceptual anchor, intertwine past and present through textile creation. By transferring curated images onto fabric via the sublimation process, we turn technical execution into a symbolic gesture. Here, memory isn’t just a recording—it is a material dialogue where personal experience is imprinted, re-signified, and transformed.
About Lisu Vega
Artist Bio Lisu Vega (b. 1980, Miami, FL) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Miami and raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Her practice spans engraving, photography, fiber and textile art, sculpture, and immersive installation, exploring sustainability, migration, memory, and identity through material-driven processes.
Her solo exhibitions include Weaving Landscapes of Memory, curated by Rina Gitlin, Miami Dade College Kendall Campus, Miami, FL (2025); That Which Inhabits Me, curated by Sophie Bonet, The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery, Pembroke Pines, FL (2025); Memoria Perdida, Tunnel Projects, Miami, FL (2025); and Calle Chile, Callejón San Benito, Spellerberg Projects, Lockhart, TX (2025), curated by Dainy Tapia. She also presented a special solo project as a guest artist in the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL (2025), curated by Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon.
Her work has been featured in the publication “Le Fil / Thread in Contemporary Art,” written by Charlotte Vannier (Pyramid Publishing, France, 2025). She has participated in national and international collective exhibitions, including Tactics for Remembering, curated by Fabiola R. Delgado, Museum of Contemporary Art, Arlington, VA (2025); Proyecto Creadoras, curated by Loren A. Gonzalez, National Art Gallery of Venezuela (2025); and exhibitions at Natura Cica Museum, South Korea (2025). Previous solo presentations include Everything I Forgot?, Edge Zones, Miami, FL (2024); Captive Body, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL (2021); El Cuerpo de la Obra, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL (2019); as well as a solo project at Pinta Miami Art Fair 2021, curated by Félix Suazo.
About Marie Franco
Marie Franco is a Peruvian-Venezuelan artist based in South Florida and is a 2024 alumna of New World School of the Arts, where she earned a BFA in painting with a minor in art history. Her practice centers painting as a form of storytelling rooted in immigrant lived experience. Through portraiture and depictions of shared economic spaces, particularly flea markets and swap shops, she explores themes of migration, labor, commerce, identity, and community. These informal marketplaces function as sites of cultural exchange, economic survival, and belonging for working-class immigrant communities and are deeply connected to Franco’s personal history. After immigrating to the United States, her mother worked as a vendor at the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop, a space that continues to shape her practice.
Franco’s process is grounded in observation and documentation. She spends extended time within these markets, building relationships, photographing environments, and studying the visual language of commerce such as objects, signage, and spatial rhythms that define daily life. Rather than focusing solely on individual likeness, her paintings often describe people through objects, shadows, and architectural details, allowing presence to be felt even when figures can be absent. Materials are sometimes sourced directly from these sites, reinforcing a reciprocal relationship between the artist, the marketplace, and its community. Alongside her studio practice, Marie is an active art educator working with institutions including PAMM, Oolite Arts, the Wolfsonian, and Vizcaya Museum & Gardens.
