
Nydia Novoa Sancho, Marylou Santoro & Arlene Brill
11/05/20 • 13 min
This week's episode features stories about family fabric arts traditions, sewing for charity, and the garment design industry with Nydia Novoa Sancho, Marylou Santoro, and Arlene Brill. Interviews with Ms. Sancho and Ms. Brill were recorded at the Pelham Art Center on Feb 29th. The interview with Marylou Santoro was recorded at Kennedy Catholic High School on Feb. 23th with the Northern Star Quilters Guild.
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Sewing Community is part of ArtsWestchester's Folk Arts Program, made possible in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
This week's episode features stories about family fabric arts traditions, sewing for charity, and the garment design industry with Nydia Novoa Sancho, Marylou Santoro, and Arlene Brill. Interviews with Ms. Sancho and Ms. Brill were recorded at the Pelham Art Center on Feb 29th. The interview with Marylou Santoro was recorded at Kennedy Catholic High School on Feb. 23th with the Northern Star Quilters Guild.
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Sewing Community is part of ArtsWestchester's Folk Arts Program, made possible in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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Sewing Community is part of ArtsWestchester's Folk Arts Program, made possible in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
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Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Sewing Community is part of ArtsWestchester's Folk Arts Program, made possible in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Sewing Community - Nydia Novoa Sancho, Marylou Santoro & Arlene Brill
Transcript
Nydia Novoa Sancho
Nydia Novoa Sancho. Currently I’m living in Southern Westchester, in Scarsdale, but it is really New Rochelle. My family has been here since about 1927. They came from Puerto Rico. My grandmother had been a teacher there because she finished High School and you could become a teacher after High School or the Middle School. I don’t even know what it was. She has a big diploma. Her name was Carmen Rodriquez Fischer. She came to New York. Her husband at
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