Victoria Manganiello is an artist, designer, organizer, and educator. Victoria has received multiple international, recognized grants, awards, commissions, and residency appointments. She holds a BS in studio art and art history from Skidmore College and an MA in Art Education from NYU. Her artwork has been acquired by private and institutional art collections around the globe and she has exhibited across the USA and Europe as well as South Korea and Australia. She is the co-founder of Craftwork, an experimental art and design studio working between textiles and technology and an organizer of the annual Electronic Textiles Camp. Her practice experiments with traditional weaving, knitting, and color dyes alongside computational and algorithmic pattern-making, working across scales and formats from wall works to immersive, interactive installations. With more than 10 years of experience in academia, she teaches regularly at NYU and Parsons School of Design in the MFA and BFA programs and has been a visiting lecturer and critic at numerous prestigious universities around the world. Victoria regularly engages in education and community-based programs including as a board member for “Intertwine Arts” which serves people with disabilities and chronic illness through arts therapy as well as a teaching artist in the New York and Brooklyn Public Library systems among others. She is well-known in the textile and craft community as an accomplished artist and innovative storyteller and facilitates many socially engaged projects in collaboration with other artists, designers and educators.