As part of
Objects at Play exhibition, join artist Agustina Markez for a hands-on workshop exploring the transformation of the football through surface, color, and gesture.
🗓️ Tuesday, July 14th | 6 to 8pm
📍 67 West St., Studio 513
n this session, participants will work directly on bisque ceramic footballs, selecting colors and details to create a piece that feels personal and sculptural. From the first brushstrokes to the final finish, you’ll reimagine the ball as a piece of art, existing between object and sculpture, carrying traces of your own process, team and story.
Drawing from her ceramic practice, where deflated footballs are reinterpreted as solid sculptural forms, Agustina explores the moment an object loses its function but gains a new presence. What once was soft and in motion becomes fixed, silent, and permanent — a surface for memory, failure, and reinterpretation.
Each ceramic ball holds the imprint of this transformation: from sport object to sculptural artifact, from use to observation.
NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED! All materials included + drinks and bites.
Take home a ball painted by you!
ARTIST BIO
Luisa Mantelli is a Brazilian textile artist based in New York City. She earned an 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 teaching arts to first graders, and a resident in the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program.
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 repurposed materials, she merges Brazilian and family traditions with materials from New York, exploring how environments shape behavior and how communities reinvent home.
