Elliot Rockart is a textile historian, artist, and researcher located in Brooklyn, New York. They combine their love of history and textiles through creating historically inspired knitted, crocheted, embroidered, sewn, woven, hooked, tatted, and appliquéd art. This allows the, a physical, hands-on approach to embody the work of people and collectives who have been creating textiles across history.

In their academic research, their primary interests are provenance, pre-modern art forgeries, and religious textiles of Europe, Southwest Asia, and North Africa. They are fascinated by the world of museums and how their collecting practices and exhibitions speak to the interests of the public and the narratives inherent in the creation of a public collection. The focus of their research to complicate the ways in which we as both museum professionals and public observers respond to objects: what ideas they might perpetuate, what biases they may challenge.

Elliot is a lifelong crafter and maker with a passion for fixing and reconstructing objects that catch my fascination. Their handwork has always reflected their fascination with performance, history, and the queer lives and bodies of pre-modern people. Today, their art is primarily inspired by their continued research into the history of material culture and my own process of medically and socially transitioning as a transmasculine person.