Virginia San Fratello
Artist Bio
San Fratello draws, builds, 3D prints, teaches, and writes about art and design as a cultural endeavor deeply influenced by craft traditions and contemporary technologies. She is a founding partner in the Oakland, CA-based make-tank Emerging Objects and the co-author of Printing Architecture: Innovative Recipes for 3D Printing (Princeton Architectural Press 2018), a book that reexamines the building process from the bottom up and offers illuminating case studies for 3D printing with materials like chardonnay grape skins, salt, and sawdust. Her work has been published widely, including in the New York Times, Art News, and Colossal, and is recognized by LACMA and The National Building Museum, and included in the permanent collection of MoMA, The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, SFMOMA, and the Design Museum in London.