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Textile artist and designer. Twenty-five rugs, hand-knotted from her drawings — an ongoing collaboration with David Ariel Rugs.
Enter the collectionA multidisciplinary practice grounded in an ongoing exploration of nature, culture, and the unseen forces that connect them.
Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, Brigita Krasauskaite trained at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, earning a master's degree in Textile Design and Fine Art, and later received a master's degree in Art Administration from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York.
Central to Krasauskaite's practice is the conviction that art belongs within everyday life. Through her philosophy of “art into the industry,” she challenges the traditional hierarchy between fine art and functional design, bringing textiles from the background into the foreground as an autonomous artistic presence.
Historically, rugs carried complex symbolic narratives, communicating identity, belief, memory, and cultural knowledge through woven forms. As much of this visual language has gradually faded under the pressures of mass production and consumer culture, Krasauskaite reimagines the rug as a contemporary vessel for meaning. Rather than treating it solely as a functional or decorative object, she approaches the textile as a field for artistic inquiry — one in which material, pattern, repetition, and abstraction can once again carry ideas and create their own visual language.
“Art into the industry.” Brigita Krasauskaite
