Regina Dante is a Tucson-based artist and founder of Crafting Resilience, a community textile practice focused on sewing, mending, and material reuse. Her work explores repair as a form of storytelling, tracing memory, labor, and lived experience through fabric.

She leads community workshops across Tucson where participants learn accessible sewing and visible mending techniques using both personal garments and reclaimed materials. Dante also redistributes sewing tools, materials, and art supplies through mutual aid-informed efforts, expanding access to creative resources and framing art-making as a form of mental health support and community care.

Her practice engages craftivism, using textile work as a form of public expression, connection, and resistance. She frames sewing machines as accessible power tools that support autonomy, repair, and creative agency, and incorporates as part of her broader practice of documentation, storytelling, and community knowledge-sharing.

Through Crafting Resilience, Dante creates spaces for hands-on making that center sustainability, transformation, and collective care through textiles.

Regina can be contacted directly at craftyregina@wentcloud.com
IG: crafting.resilience