In a small room in Field Projects, a Manhattan art gallery, three punch-needle tapestries hang from banner poles alongside clippings from old newspapers with headlines such as “Textile Workers’ Convention to Call Big Walkout...
Tabitha Arnold weaves workers’ struggles into her tapestries
Textile artist and socialist Tabitha Arnold draws on Christian imagery to tell the story of workers' struggles for justice, past and present.
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May 2026
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