Tabitha Arnold
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Egon Investment Scores
Liquidity
2/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
7/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
6/10
Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Discovery
3/10
Undervaluation opportunity relative to peer artists
Risk
4/10
Investment risk factors — higher means more volatile
Market Position
- Pricing
- Rising institutional recognition suggests upward potential
- Liquidity
- Very limited - primarily primary market sales
- Comparables
- Contemporary fiber artists in similar price range, politically engaged textile artists
- Collector Base
- International collectors, progressive art collectors, labor movement supporters
- Primary Market
- Price Range
- $20-$75 for prints/small works (Etsy/website sales)
- Availability
- Limited edition prints available, original tapestries likely in $5,000-$25,000 range based on labor intensity and size
- Original Works
- Pricing not publicly disclosed, likely commission-based
- Auction History
- Sales Venues
- Direct sales through website, Etsy, gallery commissions
Institutional Presence
- Exhibitions
- Museum Collections
- Work
- Time Off Task
- Medium
- Tufted wool rug
- Museum
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Year Acquired
- Recent
- Museum
- Cortex Frontal, Portugal
- Status
- Permanent collection
- Awards and Recognition
- 2024 Ford Foundation Exhibition Support Grant2023 Arte Laguna Prize Finalist2022 American Craft Council Emerging Artist Cohort2023 MacDowell Fellow2023 Worker's Art and Heritage Centre residency2022 The Church, Sag Harbor2022 Cortex Frontal, Portugal2021 Glen Foerd, Philadelphia
Career & Biography
- Career
- Emerging to mid-career (8 years since graduation, significant institutional recognition)
- Identity
- Artistic Medium
- Fiber art, punch needle embroidery, textile tapestries, labor-intensive art
- Current Location
- Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Personal Background
- Self-employed fiber artist, political organizer, socialist activist, former cafe worker and union organizer
- Artistic Context
- Key Influences
- Ann Hamilton, Sheila Hicks, Faith Ringgold, Elizabeth Catlett, Mexican muralists, Chilean arpilleras, Gee's Bend Collective
Artistic Profile
- Visual Language
- Large-scale tapestries and rugs, prints, illustrations Bold, saturated colors in tradition of social realism
- Themes and Subjects
- Religious and spiritual imagery adapted for labor themes, protest scenes, factory workers, contemporary labor symbols Labor organizing, working-class struggle, Amazon workers, union strikes, social realism imagery
- Movements and Periods
- Techniques and Mediums
- Signature Techniques
- Punch needle embroidery, tufted wool rugs, large-scale tapestries (up to 7 feet tall)
Critical Reception
- Critical Reception
- Academic Attention
- Moderate - interviews and features in art magazines, guest lectures at universities
- Publications and Media
- Major Publications
Year Publication Type 2022 Jacobin Magazine Feature interview — Hyperallergic Reviews and features 2023 BOMB Magazine Interview with Michelle Millar Fisher 2022 Forbes Art coverage — Dissent Magazine Cover illustrations 2024 Burnaway Profile
Gallery & Representation
- Fair Presence
- Limited commercial fair presence
- Representation
- Gallery Tier
- Mid-tier project spaces and academic galleries
- Current Exhibitions
- Field Projects, New York (2025)
- Geographic Reach
- Primarily US East Coast and Midwest, some international presence (Canada, Portugal)
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