An EXHiBiT | Art Meets NY Design

July 16, 2026

Notes from the Studio

There is a profound alchemy that occurs when creative paths converge. We are excited to share about a recent happening; a weaving together of diverse artistic languages into a singular expression. This past May, Anna had the immense pleasure of bringing her newest sculptural works–The Objects– into a shared space with Betil Dagdelen and Virginia Overton for the 2026 NYCxDesign Week in NYC.

Titled simply An EXHiBiT, the show was a collective curation. Born from the spirit of friendship, the show drew inspiration from the pioneering, mid-century curatorial experiments of London pop-artist Richard Hamilton. Hosted within textile artist/designer Betil’s luminous studio in Greenpoint, the space became a gallery for the months of May and June.

From Left to Right: ANNA SHEFFIELD's Speckled Obsidian Vessel, BETIL DAGDELEN's Peacock Mod 2, ANNA SHEFFIELD's Red Jasper Candle holder, Polychrome Jasper candle holder, and Carnelian Candle Snuffer, VIRGINIA OVERTON's End Table (Untitled)

Betil, Virginia, and Anna set out to show how art and design speak a common language. By playing with horizontal planes of the design showroom shelving and the open space of the classic Brooklyn studio, their woven, casted, and assembled works co-mingled in harmony. Furniture and suspended fixtures from both Dagdelen and Overton were featured alongside Anna’s sculptural and decorative objects. Every angle offered a new intersection of three distinct viewpoints and their shared materials: metal, fiber, clay, stone and wood–or more simply, light and form.

From Left to Right: BETIL DAGDELEN'S Peacock Mod 3A, Rammed earth side table, ANNA SHEFFIELD's Smoke fired Green Terra Offering Dish, Terra firm Quartz Gazing Bowl, Small & Medium Reflecting Dishes, VIRGINA OVERTON's Inverted Chevron, ANNA SHEFFIELD's Sawdust/Raku-fired Offering Bowl, Smoke Glazed Canopic Jar, BETIL DAGDELEN's APOLETTES

From left to right: VIRGINIA OVERTON's Inverted Chevron, ANNA SHEFFIELD's Ocean Jasper Mountain Offering Dish, BETIL DAGDELEN's Peacock Mod 3A

Meet the Makers:

Betil Dagdelen

Dagdelen is a textile artist and designer of furniture, staged sets and architectural elements. Betil’s approach to weaving involves a self-directed curriculum of material, color and pattern study. Her work mixes traditional weaving technologies with an improvisational approach to weaving techniques. She boldly steps away from the loom in preference to weaving into and around sculpted forms. Dagdelen prefers to work with existing materials that have a story to them, and therefore uses yarn created traditionally by both Turkish and Navajo makers. She lives and works in Abiquiu, New Mexico and keeps a studio in New York where an EXHIBIT will take place for NYCxDesign Festival.

From left to right: BETIL DAGDELEN'S Peacock Mod 3B, VIRGINA OVERTON'S Sister Ham

Virginia Overton

Virginia Overton creates sculptures and installations by repurposing materials drawn from industrial, agricultural, and architectural contexts. Through decisive interventions, Overton recontextualizes these ordinary objects to reveal their intrinsic properties, shaped by repeated handling and the traces of their prior use. She is interested in the way materials behave in relation to one another – how they balance, stack, align, hold weight – often in direct response to the spaces in which they are found or installed. Overton lives and works between New York and Massachusetts.

VIRGINIA OVERTON's Inverted Chevron

Anna Sheffield

From Sculptor to Jewelry Designer to Ceremony maker–Anna Sheffield is an artist with a designer's sensibility, who is newly turning her distinct perspective to the home with decorative objects. Drawing inspiration from the evocative beauty of materials like garden quartz and lapis lazuli, paired with the subtle warmth of ceramic and bronze, her objects possess a profound connection to the earth. She is based in and working from Taos, New Mexico, and maintains a team and presence in NYC out of her Jewelry Atelier.