Liz Collins weaves a Promised Land with Colorful Textiles (2024)

Video (8:29): Queer artist Liz Collins weaves a ‘promised land’ with colorful textiles.

Liz Collins learned how to use a sewing machine when she was 9 years old and has been enamored with textiles ever since. In her art practice, Collins weaves colorful textiles meant to inspire “awe and wonder” for audiences and suggest a future “promised land.” She created Knitting Nation in 2005 to engage in collective artmaking with others to produce a “giant abstraction of the American flag.” Collins’s work raised crucial questions about patriotism, labor, and how people interact with machines.

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