Stephanie Santana - The American Scholar

Stephanie Santana - The American Scholar

When textile artist Stephanie Santana became a mother about a decade ago, she started thinking about how to pass along her family history to her son. For several years, she experimented with the concept of textiles as historical records, screenprinting old family photographs onto various fabrics. Then, in 2019, one year after graduating from a textile design program at the Fashion Institute of New York, Santana began researching her great-aunt M…