SFArtsED is pleased to announce Soft Spaces for Hard Times: the culminating presentation of the two-year participatory project by Tiersa Nureyev. Initiated in the SFArtsED gallery and across public schools in San Francisco in 2023, Soft Spaces for Hard Times brings together artists, educators and San Francisco youth to make a monumental textile collage quilt, which occupies the entire footprint of the SFArtsED gallery. Featuring the contributions of hundreds of hands, the project connects individuals and communities that are still healing from COVID pandemic isolation. Visitors are invited to take their shoes off, enter, and explore the immersive, soft space of the quilt.

This project has been made possible through funding from the SF Arts Commission,  The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and a partnership with the San Francisco Arts Education Project.

About Tiersa Nureyev:
Tiersa is a multidisciplinary artist and designer, who has costumed for film, theater, and dance. Her practice foregrounds fiber based mediums and practices that require methodical handwork.Techniques such as weaving, braiding, and hand sewing, as well as painting and illustration that reference textile structures and surface design are common themes in her work. Tiersa has been a teaching artist with the San Francisco Arts Education Project (SFArtsED) since 2006.