Luísa Mantelli is a Brazilian textile artist based in New York City since 2023. She earned her MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design in 2025, following earlier studies in architecture and urban planning.

 

She combines studio practice with education as a part-time faculty member at Parsons School of Design, a resident artist with ProjectArt, and a resident at the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. 

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Mantelli’s practice explores the relationships between people and their environments, translating themes of migration, influence, and transformation into sculptural textile forms.

Textiles, like people, adapt to the place they are in, carrying memory while responding to change. Through crochet, weaving, embroidery, and natural dyeing with natural fibers and repurposed materials, she merges Brazilian and family traditions with those from New York, exploring how environments shape behavior and how communities reinvent home.