‘Our blood, our sweat, our tears’: how textile artist Tabitha Arnold weaves the US labor movement

The Tennessee socialist and labor organizer creates art that reflects and inspires organizers and workers The crowd lining up to get into Tabitha Arnold’s exhibition in New York City last fall wasn’t full of the older, moneyed types one might expect to find at a Chelsea gallery opening. Instead, the small space was packed with twenty- and thirtysomethings wearing Zohran Mamdani pins, Democratic Socialists of America hats and SEIU T-shirts. If the crowd might have seemed unusual in the context...

By Whitney Bauck