Soft Spaces For Hard Times brings together Bay Area fiber artists, SFArtsED teaching artists, and San Francisco youth to make a monumental textile collage quilt. This project is a symbolic and tangible act of connecting individuals and communities that are still healing from COVID pandemic isolation. This project began almost a year ago in the SFArtsED Gallery and in public schools across San Francisco. Hundreds of hands have already contributed to the project, which culminates this fall with an immersive and interactive textile installation.

This project has been made possible through funding from the SF Arts Commission, the Wattis Institute 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, dance and performance art. She is the co-founder of the sustainable, fashion accessory design studio Stella Fluorescent, has been a teaching artist with the San Francisco Arts Education Project (SFArtsED) since 2006, and has led art direction in the creation of textile-based elements, murals, and props for exhibitions, and devised theater.