Rebecca Sira Studio

fiber arts

  • Wall-mounted assemblage of light blue painted wood, with a weathered branch capped in orange resting across the top and a small oak gall hanging by black thread over a hand-painted blue target.

    what’s on hand

    Three assemblages made for Oregon City’ Art Commission’s 6×6 show, June 2025. Each piece is 6×6 inches, built entirely from what I already had – found wood, stone, string, wool felt, char. One holds an oak gall on a string above a hand-painted target. Pull it back and let it fall. The satisfying plonk sound…

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  • Rebecca Sira on the TEDxSalem stage beside a large PVC-and-yarn sculpture lit blue

    Signal

    Three sculptures built from bent PVC pipe wrapped in yarn, made to read as neurons – each took hundreds of hours to build. For TEDxSalem 2019, whose theme was “Re,” I was invited back as artist in residence – a strange full circle, since I’d co-created the TEDx Artist in Residence program itself in 2014.…

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  • The Act of Stillness dome installed at TEDActive, with signage and colorful handwritten notes attached to the frame

    the act of stillness

    A 15-foot dome, wrapped in a web of black yarn, built as the breakout-area installation for TEDActive 2015 in Whistler, BC – the same year Untangled was the stage piece. I was invited as artist in residence after Michelle Jones and I won a TEDx incubator prize for the TEDx Artist in Residence Program, an…

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  • Spiral installation of pleated black fabric with a fabric-wrapped ladder at center, Cascade AIDS Project

    spi·ral

    Spirals of pleated black fabric wound across the floor around a ladder wrapped floor to top in black cloth, paired with a black-and-white panel of hand-drawn spirals and circles. Spiral was made as a tribute to people living with and lost to HIV/AIDS, and to those who support and educate around the disease – created…

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