Woven Reverie
Woven Reverie: a Fashion Show, an Exhibition, a Family
Woven Reverie is a collaborative and immersive experience of the overwhelming possibilities that exist in fiber arts. Throughout human history all great civilizations have used textiles as a means of expressing their culture, and that artistry exists to this day. This installation is an opportunity for local artists to share the lengths fiber arts has come in the approximate 25,000 years since its origins. With “fiber arts” as the seed, our featured artists display free rein in their creative expression of their imagined collections.
On July 24th the gallery opened to the public. The art of 11 different artists was featured, serenaded by the tones of the magical Mad Fae Band. On the 25th the gallery exhibition continued with the soft soothing voice of Kai Warrior.
On the 26th the exhibition came to a peak with eight designers showcasing their expertise as they presented their diverse experience in textile arts. The showcase was a highlight of the wide network of creators within Albuquerque that express themselves through fiber. We give a big thanks to everyone who joined us as we experienced the different dreams of our artists at Woven Reverie!
Learn More About the Designers
Jeremy Salgado | Trailer Park Queen
Jeremy Salgado pushes the definition of luxury, pulling inspiration from unlikely paces. His art expresses richness and resilience from the unorthodox.
"Growing Pains" is a representation of various personal struggles and worldly issues. Representing things that require change and growth. Lissticks's pieces are reworked from thrifted clothing. Every garment is given a new purpose and deeper meaning with the intention of saving the planet and, hopefully, our minds.
As she grew, so did her artistic expression. Her style is now a true representation of herself, and the things she hold most dear. Through whatever art form she tells the stories of growth, addiction, violence, mental health, and ultimately healing.
Fashion is a craft she never intended on exploring but is now fully immersed in. A side project of airbrushing tees, turned into a full on passion as she sees sewing each piece as if it were paint to a canvas.
“I combined my love for thrifting and the environment with my art and it opened up many new doors and chapters in my life and for that I am truly blessed.”
Dezert Mage | Archetypes of the Unconscious
Shortly after finishing graduate school, Dezert Mage picked up a hook and yarn, and what was meant to be a small hobby quickly turned into an obsession and primary form of creative expression. Gaining inspiration from underground festival fashion, Renee developed a unique personal style that can be described as risqué, edgy, and fairy-esque. She makes 1 of 1 designs and wearable art pieces using freeform crochet and knitting. Her favorite thing about designing is making people feel beautiful, comfortable and confident in her work.
Tayanna Hernandez perceives the world through her deep emotions. Using fashion and fabric she is able to convey an intense inner madness. Her expressions are eclectic, colorful, confusing, and at times melancholy. Her determination is to take up space and leave echoes of herself in every step she takes.
Dreams are the essence of Tay’s collection. Rooted from the vivid lucid dreams she experienced as a child. Embracing the dichotomy of dreading sleep with craving escape into another dimension is a part of what she has been able to express through her creativity. The amalgamation of past dreams and art became the inspiration for the collection reminiscent of sticky old vampire movies and fever dreams. Mixing Gothic, Victorian era influences and colorful fantastical dreamscapes, her dreams are transformed into reality.
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Indigo Moon | INÚ ẸJẸ LÓ WÀ
INÚ ẸJẸ LÓ WÀ, is an expression of the freedom found through the web-like knots of fiber. Using "free-hand crochet" allows for construction of inimitable pieces guided entirely by instinct. This collection is made up of a number of unique sheets and patches woven together depicting humanoid features. Created with the intention of reuse, pieces can be entirely unwoven in one take.
Indigo Moon is born of a union of culture. Named through connection to the Kogi people of Colombia and the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Indigo Moon represents the power of a name. The collection INÚ ẸJẸ LÓ WÀ gives ode to the family of weavers, woodcarvers, and performers Indigo Moon was raised by. It is also a means to create an artistic footprint of one's own.
Being surrounded by decorated artists and talented family members made for a difficult journey in connecting to a given craft. Fiber arts eventually became the medium Indigo Moon could use to bring daydreams to life.
INÚ ẸJẸ LÓ WÀ | It’s in my blood
Grampy Squares | Release and Renew
Grampy Squares sees mistakes a being an integral part in the creative process. As someone who learned to knit at age 10 from their brother, mistakes have been the only constant in Ash's more than 15 years of crafting. Their collection is about allowing those mistakes to guide the art, creating a space for the individual to become the best teacher. With their pieces they want to encourage releasing expectations and embracing imperfections.
"Anything that is worth doing, is worth doing badly"
Avis creates all his designs from up-cycled materials collected from junk cars, thrift stores, the dumpster, and the side of the road. Avis is a local ABQ artist that finds fashion to be one of the strongest mediums of artistic self expression because the body is the canvas. Avis graduated from college with a BFA in Fashion Accessories Design but hated the mainstream fashion industry and decided not to pursue that career. Instead he moved back home to become a tattoo artist seeing that it is also a medium utilizing the self as a canvas. Now he just makes clothes for fun and is teaching free up-cycling classes to anyone with a passion for fashion and most of all, sustainability.
Allison Saint | Threads of 6
Allison Saint, living her early years of life in Mexico, developed a love for art and anime to escape the overbearing religious mentality she was surrounded by. The stories told in these programs allowed her to see the stark differences in societal values, and values of her own. As a queer trans woman, and an indigenous immigrant, all of what society deemed weird, was Allison. So instead of siding with society Allison chose to embrace self values of love and confidence as there is integrity in this form of rebellion. Through Allison's collection you can see the pain and love for her hard work and integrity.
Learn More About the Gallery Artists
Red Willow Design | Half Touch
Half Touch explores old ideas in new mediums. -embroidery, wool felting, and beadwork. In this collection Maddie explores new dimensions through texture. She explores the feel of embroidery thread, the inherent roughness of wool roving, and the cool sensation of glass beads.
Adeliza Jane | Anatomy of a Cloud
Adeliza Jane, previously focused in painting, is new to the fiber arts community. Her connection to art varies from her mother’s proficiency in fashion, her father’s musicianship, and great friendships dedicated to their crafts. Being surrounded by great artists was always considered a gift, but led to difficulty in focusing on one medium. Her primary art form being filmmaking, she has managed to dabble in graphite photorealism, upcycled fashion, graffiti pen busts, vintage porn collage, and expressionist abstractions. She has recently fallen into the world of rug tufting. With a rug gun in hand she has embarked on a journey to focus her skills using yarn as her new medium in place of paint. Woven Reverie has pushed her tufted paintings to places she didn’t think she could go, and is honored to showcase her first tufting collection Anatomy of a Cloud.
Lily B. Greene | The World Through a Raindrop
Lily found connection to fiber arts through her mother who was a talented quilter and maker. Quilting was a craft Lily found following her mother’s passing. As a way to connect with her Mom the craft brings joy along with pain when not having a way to ask her for advice. Despite the struggle Lily finds joy in finding new ways to create, exploring colors, and experimenting with new methods in a completely new craft.
“The World Through a Raindrop” quilted wall sculpture is made through experimental improv quilting methods. The piece combines playfulness with abstract shapes and juxtaposed colors, allowing viewers to find different meaning in what quilting means.
Tina Yara-Nieto | Untitled
Melissa Barton | Pop Dimensions
Melissa is a fiber artist originally from New England, focused in knitting, spinning, and non-traditional quilting. Growing up in a family of makers Melissa works on carrying forward the many skills she’s learned through her relationships. Melissa studied Surface Textile Design at Parsons in the 1980s before fabric design became computerized. Her deep appreciation for printed fabric has led to taking individual elements of fabrics and extracting them to create new layered pieces.
Hannah Paz-Westbrook | Embrace
As an anti-disciplinary artist, Hannah resists patriarchal and colonial concepts of mastery over a medium. Hannah synthesizes a common language between various materials such as painting, fiber arts, and video, pulling together disciplines that may seem incongruent on the surface.
Growing up as a racially ambiguous Mexican-American, queer, third-culture kid, she is intimately familiar with belonging in in-between spaces, and her creative process allows her to challenge traditional narratives. Her art serves as a mirror for the complexity of the human experience, reflecting the strange and unique parts of us that defy assimilation, risk being misunderstood, and insist on celebration. She utilizes abstracted portraiture, color theory, and moiré patterns, crafting compositions that blur the lines between figures and backgrounds. This deliberate ambiguity invites viewers to engage in a deeper dialogue with the artwork, encouraging us to look beyond the surface and uncover the layers of meaning hidden within.
Tori Nicole | Summer Camp
Tori Nicole is a queer, self-taught, multi-disciplinary artist, creating out of her studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and started working as a baker when she was 15. She moved to Los Angeles in 2013, where she continued to work as a pastry chef in fine dining restaurants while doing freelance photography. During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, she was laid off from her restaurant job and moved to New Mexico where she began to pursue visual arts.
Her primary media are textile, sculpture, and acrylic. She started sewing wearables from secondhand garments and fabric scraps in response to feeling discomfort in her body. Through that process, she found a love for sewing as a craft and began creating textile art and soft sculptures. In her work as a painter and sculptor, she combines physical techniques learned through pastry and sewing to create tapestries of discordant colors and textures, which express different emotional states in the form of characters and environments. She finds her inspiration from the otherworldly details of nature and enjoys highlighting the small beauties that tend to be overlooked.
From 2021 - 2023, Tori created a donation-run art gallery and studio called Garagedoor Gallery, where she curated and hosted several group exhibitions featuring the work of local artists. Currently, she is focusing on her individual practice while also working at Textival Rug and Textile Workshop as a rug restorer, where she is expanding her knowledge of textile art through weaving.
Lea Perez | Woodland Dreams
Leas work explores the interplay of light and form to evoke a sense of delicate naturalism. She's drawn to sinuous, organic shapes that mirror natural movement and growth. Through intentional lighting I ain to enhance definition and radiance, inviting viewers to experience the subtle textures and shifting contours. The result is an atmosphere that feels both intimate and alive.
Learn More About the Performers
Mad Fae Band
Mad Fae is a musical project hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Refusing loyalty to any one genre, itseeks to honor the myriad inspirations of its creators, Daria and Killian McCarthy. Mad Fae plays to the tricksters among us and promises to keep you guessing.
Kai Warrior
Kai Warrior is an Albuquerque born, raised and based singer-songwriter and musician. In attempts to ground and process, Warrior leaned into songwriting as a form of journaling and emotional exploration during the beginning of the pandemic, writing and posting clips online became a constant to hold onto when everything else that felt “normal”, seemed intangible. Warrior recorded her first solo project in February 2024 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, titling the EP “Everything I Know”. The EP is an 8 track project encompassing songs written from 2022-2023, soundscaping childhood, reflection, and honesty. Warrior is now focused on solidifying the stories she’d like to tell and the sound she’d like to curate for herself.
Chloe Violet
Chloë Violet is a singer-songwriter originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she grew up involved in the local music scene, performing her original songs at various gigs and open mics around town. A recent graduate of Berklee College of Music, Chloë is currently working on her debut album, reflecting her growth, independence, and the shaping of her artistic voice in her twenties. Her music explores themes of liberation, identity, and self-expression—particularly through her lens of womanhood, artistry, and love. Her work embraces vulnerability and honesty as sources of strength.
Yung Gabuelo | Sabidura de Tejeduría
“Sabidura de Tejeduría” is a storytelling journey bringing the fiber work featured throughout Woven Reverie to life via dance and connection to the Earth. Sharing two New Mexican's embodied wisdom gained through the decades living in New Mexico. Their performance will weave and intertwine storytellers and world makers across the state of New Mexico.
Being a Burque Born Queer Cholo Genizaro has taught Yung Gabuelo ( Gabriel Carrion-Gonzales) a great deal about what it means to weave oneself into multiple communities and to be Queer and Fluid in many communities sometimes for safety, sometimes to thrive. Regardless Gabriel continues to find his voice in this chaotic world, returning to presence, patience, and breath as practices to help navigate the world as an artist. Que Viva Burque!
Learn More About our Collaborators
Casa del Creativo
Casa del Creativo specializes in creating fresh, innovative, and unique projects that push the boundaries of creativity. They are passionate about fostering an environment where artists can come together as a community and connect No Ads. No content. Just Art.
Creative directors Cassandra D'Angelo and Cesca-Maria Segarra turn ideas into works of art. Combining passion and expertise to deliver projects that inspire and leave a lasting impression.
Connect with Our Team
Designers
Jeremy Salgado | @thejslook
Lissticks | @lissticks
Dezert Mage | @dezert.mage
Tay Hernandez | @tit.tots.tay
Indigo Moon | @indigo.moono
Grampy Square | @grampysquares
Avis | @invader.avis
Allison Saint | @lsn.saint
Gallery Artists
Red Willow Design | @maddie_mayfire
Adeliza Jane | @chikinskratch
Indigo Moon | @indigo.moono
Lily B. Greene | @lily.b.greene
Tori Nicole | @toeriee
Tina Yara - Nieto | @apocolust
Felix Wallace | felix.wallace1992@gmail.com
Melissa Barton | @knitfemme
Lea Perez | @memorabilea
Hanna Paz-Westbrook | @hannahpazwestbrook
Ronni Sparks | newmexicocrochetguild.org
Performers
Chloe Violet | @chlochloviolet
Yung Gabuelo | @yungxgabuelo
Athena | @lunaaathena
DJ Manny | @troyearns
Production Team
Organizers
Tay Hernandez | @tit.tots.tay
Aluna Olaniyi | @indigo.moono
Photography
Orion Sanchez | @shot_by_orion
Kylie Drew | @kuhlielee • kykydrrw@gmail.com
Videography
Sheldon Hamilton | @booboothecruel
Hair
Florah | @withthefloflorah
Makeup
Madeline Rae | @maddie_mayfire
Lo | @lowoodxmua • lowoodx@gmail.com
Styling
Kaya | @mistresszwee
Set Design
Hannah Paz-Westbrook
Mia Cota
Video Production
Casa Del Creativo | casadelcreativo.org
Mango | @damangoshake
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Contact Us
Instagram | @cro_chet.co
Email | crochetcolocal@gmail.com
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