Explore softness as a way to make and experience art. This participatory textile installation draws on the artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya’s personal connection to the Southeast Asian tradition of wrapping food and prayers into gentle bundles. She reimagines that gesture as a seed of care offered into a growing, shared ecosystem in which softness circulates, accumulates, and returns. Through creative, reflective drawing prompts, art books and materials, and workshops, discover gentle approaches to art-making that prioritize care for others and ourselves.
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is a Brooklyn-based transdisciplinary artist whose work spans fiber art, sculpture, painting, and installation. Rooted in her Thai and Indonesian heritage, Phingbodhipakkiya’s work employs materials such as hand-knotted rope, reclaimed textiles, talismans, and vessels to investigate themes of absence, displacement, and inherited trauma, transforming them into expressions of resilience, ritual, and repair. Her practice foregrounds the embodied knowledge of immigrant communities and the often-invisible labor of women, and constructs liminal spaces where memory, touch, and materiality intersect.
The Crown Creativity Lab is a participatory space activated by local partner organizations, artists, and MoMA visitors. Each project is inspired by art on view and invites creativity, personal reflection, and exchange with others.
Accessibility
In order to serve visitors with hearing loss, the Crown Creativity Lab includes induction hearing loops for sound amplification. Visitors can turn their hearing aid or cochlear implant to T-coil mode to hear enhanced sound effortlessly. The loop system does not work with hearing aids without telecoil technology.
All-gender restrooms are located on Floors 1, 3W, 5, and T1.
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and live captioning is available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these accommodations.
The entrance to the Creativity Lab has a power-assist door. Seating options include chairs with backs.
For more information on accessibility at MoMA please visit moma.org/Access. For accessibility questions or accommodation requests, please email [email protected] or call (212) 708-9781.
The Creativity Lab is intended for all visitors. We cannot accommodate groups larger than five persons. Co-organized with artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya.
