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Natalya’s magic power is creating beauty from what others consider trash. She creates art for earth’s sake and is inspired by plastic pollution, overconsumption and the urban environment. She strives to use materials which would be condemned to the landfill and chooses to use the unusual techniques of stitching and sewing to bring her artwork to life.

Reclaiming and repurposing materials to use in Natalya’s art has been her practice for nearly 20 years. She uses meditative hand stitching and mending of vintage linen, alongside her industrial sewing machine to stitch and collage layers of translucent single-use plastics which would otherwise contribute to litter pollution. The transformation she subjects them to makes these materials unrecognizable. 

She’s been selected to exhibit in juried art shows throughout the United States, including the Diary Barn’s biennial Quilt National exhibition (2021, 2017, 2013) and Quilts=Art=Quilts at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center.  Natalya has also showcased her works in juried art fairs such as The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn, NY and The Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show in Philadelphia, PA. The Visions Art Museum in San Diego included Natalya’s work in the exhibition, Breakout: Quilt Visions 2016.

Sharing her expertise by teaching and lecturing on mixed-media art techniques, the creative process and inspiration is Natalya’s way of making sure the art and craft is accessible to everyone. She has taught at Hudson Valley Fiber Art Workshops, Craft Napa Uncorked At Home, Create with Cloth Paper Scissors Mixed Media Retreats and many others. 

Natalya is a visiting artist working with school children in K-12. She concentrates on reinforcing teamwork, as well as creative and critical thinking skills, while building awareness of our environment and seeing materials in a new way.

Her work has been featured in periodicals and books including Surface Design Magazine, Fiber Art Now, SAQA Journal, Art Quilt Collector, Quilting Arts Magazine, Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine, Art Quilting Studio, and Artful Adventures in Mixed Media by Nathalie Kalbach, from North Light Books. 

Natalya is a member of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), Surface Design Association (SDA) and the Katonah Museum Artist Association (KMAA). 

She earned her BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.  Following careers in the New York City fashion and film industries, she lives and works in Westchester County, NY.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2023 A Duo Exhibit, Oak & Oil Gallery, Katonah, NY Arts For Earth’s Sake, Solo Exhibit, Gallery B, Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY Recycle 2023 – BWAC National Juried Show, Brooklyn, NY Teaching Artist in Residence, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY Abstract Visions, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT New Members Exhibit, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT Tenuous Threads, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY Through The Eye Of The Needle, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY 2022 Social Fabric, ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY Arcadia Lost, or Turning Up The Heat 72nd Annual Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT Collaborative Concepts at Tilly Foster Farm Museum, Brewster, NY Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats, ecoartspace, Williamsburg Art Center, NY Bellezze da Spazzatura, solo exhibit, Oak & Oil Gallery, Katonah, NY Made In NY, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY Intimacies, The Crit Lab at MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY Speaking Of Birds, site-specific single-use plastic installation, Wildflower Sculpture Park, South Orange, NJ Scene National Exhibition, d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA Honorable Mention Community Ties Conference, Materials Artist Panel, online A Better World, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA City Sketches, solo exhibit, Bedford Playhouse, Bedford, NY2021 Earth Matters, Surface Design Association, Watermark Art Center, Bemidji, MN Armonk Outdoor Art Show, Armonk, NY Hothouse, site-specific single-use plastic installation, Collaborative Concepts at Tilly Foster Farm Museum, Brewster, NY Re-Emergence, Peekskill Art Alliance, Peekskill, NY Keep It Local, WomensWork Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY Art Quilt Elements, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA Quilt National 2021, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH 2021 Earth Matters, Surface Design Association, Watermark Art Center, Bemidji, MN Armonk Outdoor Art Show, Armonk, NY Hothouse, site-specific single-use plastic installation, CollaborativeConcepts at TillyFosterFarmMuseum, Brewster, NY Re-Emergence, Peekskill Art Alliance, Peekskill, NY Keep It Local, WomensWork Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY Art Quilt Elements, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA Quilt National 2021, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH Local Coffee, solo exhibition, Montclair, NJ 2020 Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn NY Schweinfurth Award Armonk Outdoor Art Show, Virtual LIVE, Armonk, NY Speaking Of Birds, site-specific single-use plastic installation, Collaborative Concepts at Tilly Foster Farm Museum Art-In-Place, site-specific single-use plastic installation, CNL Projects and Terrain Exhibitions Fiber 2020, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT ArtShow:Bedford, Bedford NY 2019 OmniPresent Future, site-specific single-use plastic installation, Creative Climate Awards, Human Impact Institute, TECO, New York, NY ART Libris – 22nd Annual Art Show, Pequot Library, Southport, CT Larchmont Arts Festival, Larchmont, NY, Best Artist Award Armonk Outdoor Art Show, Armonk, NY Hudson Valley MOCA, 1st Annual Juried Exhibit, Peekskill, NY Recycle 2019, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY Iron Spine Aloft, site-specific single-use plastic installation, Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY Fiber Now: Textile Artists on the Cutting Edge, Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY Armonk Tree, community art project, North Castle Public Library, Armonk, NY ArtShow:Bedford, Bedford NY Please see my full resume on my website.