Mary R.

Visual Art

• I have a little black lady cat named Nivelles.
• I've made costumes for Broadway shows.
• I'm the eldest of six children and grew up in Queens, NY.

Mary Evangeline Guadalupe Rubi is a maker, a teaching artist, rogue taxidermist, professional costume maker, and sculptor of Latin and Wabanaki descent. Rubi's artistic practice is a meditation on memory: the stories we have inherited and the stories we create to remember. Past residencies and Fellowships include the NARS Satellite Residency on Governors Island (NY) , Penland School of Craft (SC), Triple 9 Arts (NY), the Roundabout Theatre (NY) , Anhklave Fellowship (NY), Monson Arts (ME), and the John C. Campbell Folk School Traditional Craft Mentorship (NC). She has exhibited at the Queens Botanical Garden (NY), CultureLab LIC (NY), Electric Studios (NY) and the Canvas Gallery (NY). She is currently an artist in residence at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY. Textiles and clay are the materials at the center of Rubi's work, and a reflection of her devotion to feminine labor and craft studies. She believes artists are responsible for creating an environment that preserves and honors handcraft by making connections, encouraging young people, and learning from experienced artisans. As a woman of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry, Rubi is conscious that the preservation of culture through materials and art is how we learn from the past, from each other, and how we continue to share the art of craft with the next generation.