Sara Marcano is a fiber artist based in South Florida who began knitting sweaters at a young age, motivated by seeing her mother and grandmother always knitting. After graduating as an architect in 2014, she started developing her brand, Arania, of handmade knitted garments inspired by Venezuelan textile identity, playing with patterns drawn from the country’s rhythms, colors, and shapes to provide protection, comfort, and a unique style for urban individuals.
Her practice spans several knitting techniques, from handmade to machine-made, and most recently, industrial machine knitting. She participated in the Textile Art Festival in Caracas, where she was able to exhibit, connect, and share her work with a large community of textile artists from across the country.
After traveling through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, she was inspired to begin working with raw wool and chunky knitted sweaters, as well as everyday items such as a t-shirt and a water jug made with merino wool. In 2025, she was selected for the second edition of ” Proyecto Creadoras”, an exhibition of Venezuelan female artists, where she presented a woven piece inspired by her experience as a worker through migration, addressing the criminalization of immigration.
During her transition to South Florida, she expanded her practice into murals, participating in a mural mentorship with muralist Lori Pratico in collaboration with Broward Health, painting a 250-foot-long mural alongside four other selected artists, and painting a mural for Hoffman’s Chocolates on Las Olas Boulevard. She also participated in the BFA Art Stroll 2025 exhibition with a group of local artists. Inspired by the ephemeral, newly built environment of South Florida, she is currently experimenting with hand-knitting unconventional materials such as rope, latex, silicone, and materials used locally for fishing and sailing, and collaborating as assistant on a mosaic mural for the clothing brand Farm Rio store.
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