Anita Paillamil

In 2012, Paillamil worked with Chilean artist Guillermo Bert to create his "Encoded Textiles," which combined traditional mapuche weaving with QR Code designs and were featured in multiple exhibits including 'Guillermo Bert: Encoded Textiles' (2012) at the Pasadena Museum of California Art^{[1][2][12][14][15][5]} and 'New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America' (2015) at the Museum of Arts and Design (NY). Paillamil's and Guillermo Bert's, Mapuche Portal #3, from the series Encoded Textiles, was also included as part of the Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Exhibit, 'This Present Moment: Crafting A Better World' (2022-2023).^[16]

In 2021, her work was displayed in the exhibit “Meli Newen – Cuatro Fuerzas,” which was sponsored by Temuco Catholic University as part of their COVID-19 pandemic art initiative “Tejido de Fraternidad.”^[17]

In 2014, she was a participant Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian's Artist Leadership Program and traveled to the Smithsonian Institution to research Mapuche photographs, textiles and iconography and then share her research with the Indigenous Association Wallontu Witral cooperative, located near Temuco, Chile.^[3][18][11] During her research, she had also helped reclassify certain items in the Smithsonian Collection.^[19] In 2015, Paillamil presented her weaving and represented Chile at the World Expo in Milan.^[20]

• "Artist Anita Paillamil empowers other Mapuche women by reconnecting them with their culture" - Paillamil from her time at the Smithsonian Institution's Artist Leadership Program
• "Una mujer tejedora en la cultura mapuche" (in Spanish) - Paillamil's 2018 presentation at TEDxUTCInacap