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PUBLIC PROJECTS and WORKSHOPS

2023 We Can Be Heroes
Cape-Making workshop, 48HRS Neukölln. Berlin

2023 The Trzepak.
Community textile workshops and related events. Lodz, Poland

2022 Sew/Mend Kits distribution to people experiencing homelessness including Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency Family Shelter in Berkeley, Raphael House Family Homeless Shelter in San Francisco, The Village Pop-up Free Stores in Oakland, with Punks With Lunch. SF Bay Area, CA*

2021 Community Banner,
High Desert Test Sites HQ, Yucca Valley

2021 Back Patch Workshop (virtual),
Scrap Creative Reuse, San Francisco*

2021 Back Patch Workshop (virtual),
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley*

2020 Community Banner and Workshop,
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley*

2020 Story Quilt Workshop,
Women’s Daytime Drop In Center, Berkeley*

2020 Story Quilt Workshop,
Here/There Camp, Berkeley*

2020 Story Quilt Workshop ,
South County Homeless Project, Hayward*

2020 Art in the Style Of  Workshops for students,
Rosa Park Elementary School, Berkeley

2019 Back Patch Workshop,
NIAD Art Center, Richmond*

2019 Community Textile Workshops, Sunday Streets, Western Addition, Tenderloin, Mission neighborhoods, San Francisco*

2019 Encounters Participatory Art Weekend, Nevada City, CA

2019 Banner-Making Workshop
May Day workers event, Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland*

2018 Banner Making Workshop
Oakland Pride Parade, Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland*

2018 Back Patch Workshop
Figment : De-Commodified Participatory Art Event, Oakland*

2018 Back Patch and Banner Workshop,
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley*

2018 Swap Meet Story Quilt.
High Desert Test Sites HQ. Yucca Valley

2017 Being There.
High Desert Test Sites HQ. Yucca Valley

2017 Wind Blanket.
JT Lab. Joshua Tree National Park

2015 Flag Zine.
Green River, Utah


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Story Quilts. Pro-Arts, Oakland*

2020 Snake Banner, The Workshop video, Berkeley Art Center*

2016 Capes and Knock Offs. Vacation, San Francisco


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Youth Council Exhibition,
Southern Exposure, San Francisco*

2017 Transformed,
Borderline Collective Gallery, San Francisco

2017 PATA
Kobro Gallery, Akademia Sztuk Pieknych, Lodz, Poland

2017 What We Offer is Free 
Hubbel Street Galleries, SF

2016 After Pop Life Curated by Glen Helfland
Minnesota Street Project, SF

2016 Home
Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland

2016 Parking Lot Art Fair, SF

2016 California College of the Arts
MFA Exhibition, Minnesota Street Project, SF

2016 #Textiling
College Ave Galleries, Oakland

2015 Technophilia
Embark Gallery, SF


EDUCATION

2016 MFA in Fine Arts. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California.

1997 BFA in Communication Design, concentration in Fine Art. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


GRANTS and COMMISSIONS

2023 Prelinger Library Research Grant,
San Francisco, CA. For research on radical utopias.

2022 Fulbright Program Grant.
For studio work and research on radical Polish textile artists.

2022 Southern Exposure: Alternative Exposure Grant.
For work on Feral Fabric Journal*

2020 City of Berkeley Artist Grant.
For work on Feral Fabric Story Quilt project*

2020 Berkeley Art Center.
Commission: Feral Fabric Community Snake Banner and workshop*

2015 Travel Expense Grant. California College of the Arts


PUBLICATIONS and PRESS

2021 Make Something Happen No Matter What. Sheila Klein on Functional Fabrics, Architecture, and Singing the Same Tune. Feral Fabric Journal, Volume 5

2021 Exhibition review: Rosie Lee Tompkins at BAM/PFA. Textile: A Journal of Cloth and Culture, UK

2021 Social Action Considered Through the Language of Textiles. Feral Fabric Journal, Volume 3

2020 Sharing your Practice: Curriculum by Lukaza Branfman-Verrisimo for Berkeley Art Museum

2020 Radical Excess: the Art and Life of Bill Bowers. Published in Feral Fabric Journal, Volume 1

2018 Going Feral with Fabric by Lou Fancher. The East Bay Monthly

2018 Amanda Walters and Paulina Berczynski go Feral with Fabric by Lou Fancher. Alameda Magazine


LECTURES

2023 Lecture: The Trzepak. Academy of Fine Arts, Lodz, Poland.

2023 Lecture: Textiles, Nature and Place. University of the Arts, Poznan, Poland

2022 Lecture: Contemporary American Textiles. University of the Arts, Poznan, Poland

2017 Guest Alumni Critic. California College of the Arts, San Francisco

2016 Guest Lecturer in the Textiles department. California College of the Arts, San Francisco





* Indicates collaborative work as part of Feral Fabric (with Amanda Walters)

All locations are in California unless otherwise noted