Serena Buschi is a contemporary fiber artist, educator, and experienced sound and energy practitioner. Her work bridges physical and metaphysical systems, revealing veiled connections and consciousness in a time of fracture. Of Asian Indian and Italian descent, she reclaims fragmented cultural threads through sari silk, wire, and Kantha quilting, layering gestures of mending with acts of disruption. She adapts traditional lacing techniques using sari silk, stitching together the complexities of hybrid identity. Sound has begun to enter her practice as another way to map vibration, coherence, and the body’s energetic memory.
She writes, “My work is rooted in identity and guided by three frameworks: weight, waveform, and grid. These structures allow me to explore the mysterious nature of the physical world, energetic fields, and the unseen threads that bind and break us.”
Buschi earned an Associate's degree in Fashion Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology, NY, in 1996, a Master's degree in 1999 from Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, and a Master's in Fine Arts degree in 2023 from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, MA. She has taught the International Baccalaureate Visual Arts program for 25 years. Solo shows include the Flatiron Prow Art Space in Manhattan. Her work has been featured in the motion picture Anesthesia in 2016. Recently exhibited at Hudson Valley MOCA and participated in the festival Art in Odd Places, her work begins to blur the boundaries between art and healing, as she weaves her sound practice into her creative process. Her work is in numerous private collections..