“I think I’m exploring my emotional terrain in a bigger way that is connected to nature and the universe.” Liz Collins learned how to use a sewing machine when she was 9 years old and has been enamored with textiles ever since. In her art practice, Collins weaves colorful textiles meant to inspire “awe and wonder” for audiences and suggest a future "promised land." She created Knitting Nation in 2005 to engage in collective artmaking with others to produce a “giant abstraction of the American flag.” Collins’s work raised crucial questions about patriotism, labor, and how people interact with machines. Watch as Liz Collins invites us all into the “rich and limitless” creative space of textile art. Liz Collins’s work was featured in the past exhibition Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, which was on view March 17 - July 28, 2024.