ITI VAIDYA

Lives and works in New York, NY, USA

Artist statement

Iti Vaidya is a New-York based Textile Designer-Artist from India. She is a MFA Textiles graduate from The New School- Parsons School of Design 23'. Her work is guided by food & agriculture systems revolving around the concepts of food sustainability, food justice, indigenous foods and preservation of natural ecosystems. She experiments with natural dyeing with foods, wet and needle felting, hand spinning and hand weaving. The primary medium of her work is wool.

Artwork

• Indigenous Polycultural Symphony - Soil and Plants, 2023. Wool, Cotton, Metal
• Indigenous Polycultural Symphony - Double Cloth , 2023. Wool, Cotton, Metal
• Green Gold - Environmental & Social Impacts of overconsumption of Avocados’, 2022. Wool, Metal
• Indigenous Polycultural Symphony, 2022. Wool, Metal
• Celebrating Kala Cotton: A Sustainable Tribute the Indigenous Cotton of Kachchh through Batik Bedding Collection (Natural Dyed), 2021. Indigenous Cotton
• Copper Wire Weaving - Tribute to Copper Bell Craft of India, 2022. Copper Wire, Tufted Chenille Yarn, Viscose Yarn, Acrylic Yarn and Copper Foil