Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Archaeology doesn’t always mean a shovel in the ground—for multi-disciplinary artist, Athena Solan Apodaca, the tool she often uses to excavate the urban and psychological landscape is a sewing machine.
Athena explores social equity and patterns of urban behavior through creating multimedia visual entanglements. She consciously maintains a minimal carbon footprint in her process-oriented work through using repurposed materials and domestically developed renewable resources. Her solo exhibition “Generally Fabricated,” featured her unique style of contemporary landscape art, which blends sewing, sculpture, painting, and drawing to explore the undoing of physical and cognitive space. Her art transforms ordinary materials into relics and artifacts of collective history: threads become roads, fabric forms windows, and pencil sketches imitate power lines. All are symbols of how people and communities can rebuild from history to organically create change within the structures and systems we live in.
As an MFA student at the UA School of Art, Athena is interested in bridging academic artistic research with local community partnership through collaborations with local galleries and organizations.
Producer: Summer Williams
Videographer: Diana Cadena
Editor: Diana Cadena, Summer Williams
Archaeology doesn’t always mean a shovel in the ground—for multi-disciplinary artist, Athena Solan Apodaca, the tool she often uses to excavate the urban and psychological landscape is a sewing machine.
Athena explores social equity and patterns of urban behavior through creating multimedia visual entanglements. She consciously maintains a minimal carbon footprint in her process-oriented work through using repurposed materials and domestically developed renewable resources. Her solo exhibition “Generally Fabricated,” featured her unique style of contemporary landscape art, which blends sewing, sculpture, painting, and drawing to explore the undoing of physical and cognitive space. Her art transforms ordinary materials into relics and artifacts of collective history: threads become roads, fabric forms windows, and pencil sketches imitate power lines. All are symbols of how people and communities can rebuild from history to organically create change within the structures and systems we live in.
As an MFA student at the UA School of Art, Athena is interested in bridging academic artistic research with local community partnership through collaborations with local galleries and organizations.
Producer: Summer Williams
Videographer: Diana Cadena
Editor: Diana Cadena, Summer Williams
