Eirini Linardaki (b. 1976, Athens, Greece) is a visual artist and public art project developer based in Newark and New York. Her practice centers human connection, environmental action, and social justice through community-based participatory work. She holds an MFA from École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille. She has developed projects with MTA Arts & Design, Monument Lab, Project for Empty Space, Audible, NYC Parks, NY DOT, and Art at Amtrak, with works installed at Grand Central Madison, Penn Station, Newark Liberty Airport, Union Station, and Harriet Tubman Square. She leads international public art and climate-focused research as a member of Onassis ONX Studio.
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In Newark, cloth functions as a language of migration, ceremony, identity, and everyday life. Fabric stores and textile shops sustain cultural continuity, circulating African prints, lace, satin, thread, and trims between tradition, design, and daily use.

These storefronts support tailors, designers, and families who transform material into garments for celebration, labor, worship, and personal expression. They are spaces of making and exchange, where craftsmanship and cultural memory are embedded in every cut, fold, and stitch. The installation draws from these environments, presenting the storefront as a site of design, labor, and transformation.

• Ancient African Formula
  109 Halsey St.

• Ali's Tailor Shop
  218 Halsey St.

• Branford Tailor Shop
  34 Branford Pl.

• Halsey Fabric Shoppe
  91 Halsey St.

• Rosina's African Fashion
  14 William St.