Victoria Manganiello

Victoria Manganiello is an artist, designer and educator. Exploring the intersections between materiality, technology, geography, and storytelling, Victoria’s multi-disciplinary and installation work, abstract paintings, and kinetic sculptures are made meticulously with hand-woven textiles using hand-spun yarn and hand-mixed natural and synthetic color dyes alongside mechanical alternatives and modern technologies

She is the co-founder of Craftwork, an art and design studio working between textiles and technology and an organizer of the annual Electronic Textiles Camp. With more than 10 years of experience in academia, she holds part-time assistant and adjunct professor positions at New York University, Parsons School of Design, The Cooper Union where she teaches courses in weaving, surface design, e-textiles, color theory and more. Victoria regularly engages in education and community-based programs including as a board member for “Intertwine Arts” which serves people with disabilities and chronic illness through arts therapy as well as a teaching artist in the New York and Brooklyn Public Library systems among others. She is well-known in the craft community as an accomplished artist and innovative storyteller and facilitates many socially engaged projects in collaboration with other artists, designers and educators. . 

 Victoria has received numerous international, recognized grants, awards, commissions, and residency appointments. Her artwork is included in private and institutional art collections around the globe and she has  exhibited across the USA and Europe, Asia and Australia.