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BIO

 

Born in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil in 1973.

Mirele Volkart  is a Brazilian visual artist based in Miami, with a background in Fashion Design. Her work blends traditional techniques passed down through generations of women in her family with contemporary textile and mixed media processes. Through embroidery, natural fibers, and photography, she explores themes of belonging, migration, ancestry, and nature. Her poetic and layered compositions weave memory into form, creating a unique dialogue between past and present.

STATEMENT​

I was born and raised in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state of Brazil, in a region shaped by German immigration. The women in my family — my grandmothers, my mother, and great-aunts — passed down textile knowledge rooted in care, repetition, and resilience. As a child, I was immersed in this world: by age 12, I was joining adult women in embroidery and painting sessions organized to support charitable causes. I also spent afternoons in my great-grandfather’s woodworking shop, where the scent of wood mingled with the sound of my grandmother crocheting hanger covers. Those early experiences shaped how I relate to materials, time, and memory.

Although my professional path began in Fashion Design, my artistic voice grew quietly alongside it. I kept a home studio where I experimented with embroidery, ceramics, mosaics, and painting — always drawn back to thread as my central medium. Moving to the United States allowed me to deepen this relationship by earning an MFA in Visual Arts and joining the Fiber Artists Miami Association (FAMA). In 2024, I became part of Red Thread Art Studio, a collective of textile artists in Miami, where I continue to develop and share my work.

My practice is rooted in research, affective memory, and a dialogue between ancestral knowledge and contemporary life. I work with machine embroidery, natural fibers, hand-dyed threads, and mixed media — creating layered compositions that explore themes such as belonging, migration, ancestry, femininity, and the cyclical patterns of nature.

I believe that making by hand is a holistic act — one that brings together gesture, story, imperfection, and care. Whether cooking, weaving, sculpting, or embracing someone, our hands hold memory. In my work, the thread is both material and metaphor: it stitches together time, identity, and legacy. It weaves fragile yet resilient webs that reflect how we carry our roots, often invisibly, into the present.

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Education and Additional

2023: MFA in Arts and Photography (candidate) - Barry University - Miami/USA

2023: MFA in Visual Arts - Miami International University of Art & Design - Miami/USA

2021: Became a member of FAMA - Fiber Artist Miami Association

2009: BFA in Fashion Design - Feevale University - Novo Hamburgo/BR

2001: Shoes Styling School - José Maria Carrasco- Novo Hamburgo/ BR

 

Exhibitions

2025: Remorph: Unending - Doral Contemporary Art Museum - Doral/USA

2025: Threading The Americas from North To South - MOCAA - Kendal/USA

2024: Art in the Garden - Pinecrest Gardens - Pine Crest/USA 

2024: Vision From Inside The Walls - Coral Gables Museum - Coral Gables/USA

2024: Earth Bound - Doral Contemporary Art Museum - Doral/USA

2024: MFA Graduate Student Exhibition - Miami/USA

2023: This is Not a Doll’s House - The Camp Gallery - North Miami/USA 

2023: The American Denim - MIFA - Doral/USA

2022: A Room of One’s Own- The Camp Gallery - North Miami/USA

2022:    Life at Street Level - Cypress Hall - Pinecrest/USA

2021: 64 Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse - Fama -Miami/USA

2021: Amalgama Group Show - The Ancient Spanish Monastery Foundation - Miami/USA

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