Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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“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.

Plan your visit to view Liz Collins’s work and more featured in “Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction”: nga.gov/exhibitions/2024/woven-histories-textiles-modern-abstraction.html

The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation provided major support for the exhibition.

Additional funding is also provided by the Director’s Circle of the National Gallery of Art.

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