This installation is located in the niche outside of Mingei, on the east side by Plaza de Panama.
Claudia Rodríguez-Biezunski, better known as Sew Loka, is a San Diego-based textile artist and fashion designer who has made a significant impact in the intersection of streetwear, sustainability, Chicana culture, and DIY fashion. She gained prominence for her distinctive style of customizing and upcycling clothing, while only using recycled, reclaimed, and repurposed fabrics to create her one of a kind fashion designs and textile art pieces.
This installation is a window into Claudia’s creative soul—raw, unpolished, alive—and it is directly inspired by her sewing studio, Sew Loka, located in the Chicano Park neighborhood of Barrio Logan. Her creative studio is a sacred space where memories are manifested into art and where fabric scraps are sewn into fashion. She often sits alone at her machine, sewing in solitude, surrounded by vibrant colors, mannequins, and meaningful imagery from her past.
