Talita do Nascimento Cabral is a Brazilian interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her practice explores the intersections of nature, memory, womanhood, and materiality, inspired by cycles of growth, decay, and renewal. Drawing from her family’s working-class resilience and ancestral knowledge, Talita creates layered, tactile compositions using natural pigments, plant-based dyes, textiles, and repurposed materials—often gathered from her own garden. A former fashion industry professional, Talita turned to sustainable, intentional practices in response to the industry’s environmental impact. Her eco-conscious approach honors traditions of care, resourcefulness, and ecological spirituality—an invitation to reflect on the deep connections between human life and the natural world. Talita is the founder of the Upcycle Coalition, a community initiative promoting environmental awareness through creative reuse and circularity workshops. She is currently an artist-in-residence at Guttenberg Arts and an alum of the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. Her work has been exhibited at New York Live Arts, the Ford Foundation Gallery, BronxArtSpace in New York, as well as Deep Space Gallery and SMUSH Gallery in New Jersey.

Statement

My work grows from a deep reverence for the delicate threads that bind nature, memory, womanhood, and material transformation. I gather materials that carry stories — textiles worn by time, earth-born pigments, salvaged fragments — and breathe new life into them through processes that echo the cycles of growth, decay, and renewal. Often, I gather from my own garden, letting the rhythms of the land shape my practice, honoring ancestral traditions of care and a quiet ecological spirituality. Guided by my immigrant journey and working-class heritage, I weave layered compositions that speak of impermanence, transformation, and tender resilience. My past in fashion fuels a critical dialogue with consumerism and environmental decay, as I entwine recycled materials and organic methods to challenge wastefulness. Beyond the studio, through the Upcycle Coalition, I foster communal spaces where creativity and responsibility intertwine—where together we learn how to mend, to reuse, to honor what remains. For me, art is not just form but a living act of care, politics, and connection—inviting us to question what we choose to hold onto, what we release, and how we nurture the fragile ties that sustain us.