Romina Schulz
This month’s installment of our Staff Spotlight series features our Project Designer and Fabric Specialist, Romina Schulz. Romina is a researcher and a visual artist that currently works mainly with textiles and ceramic. She holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts, with a major in painting, from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru. Romina continued her training with several Peruvian pre-hispanic textile courses, such as brocade weaving, Paracas ringed knitting, and backstrap weaving. Visit her website to learn more.
Romina joined Beam Center for summer 2022 and has been working with our Project Production team at Beam Camp City. Romina co-leads the sewing and installation of Tree Chuang on Governors Island with another Project Designer, Sarah Lammer. Romina also helps guide campers and youth staff through exercises of storytelling through textiles which later become part of the Tree Chuang.
Romina said that she joined Beam Center because she wanted to create something together as a community. “It has been a dream of mine for a long time, seeing neighborhoods and communities creating what they want to see in their public space.”
When asked what’s special about Beam Center, she said, “one of the things that attracted me from the first day that I was here is this communal way of approaching everything between our coworkers and everyone. Like actually sitting and talking about it and being supportive and solving problems together. I'm learning a lot from that, and it's beautiful.”
Continuing her education, Romina graduated from New York University in 2021 with a Masters in Arts Politics. Romina said that she majored in Arts Politics because she wanted a change of perspective in the art she was creating. “I started feeling that I was becoming repetitive and the things I work on related to gender start to feel more like a roof instead of something that frees me. It was the opposite. So I was craving something that would diversify the sources from which I am inspired and also expand my mind.”
Romina is the founder of #quéricomenstruo which is a project and artistic movement that seeks to eradicate the stigma that menstruation carries. Romina said she wanted to de-stigmatize menstruation. She said “I was exhausted from needing to change or feeling uncomfortable or not being able to be in public because I had a stain. So I was thinking let's just make everyone used to seeing me with a stain. So when it actually happens, I don't feel ashamed and don't need to change.”
Romina has played an integral role in the creation of Tree Chuang this summer, and we’re extremely grateful that she’s part of the Beam Center staff.
