Melina Finkelstein Rug Co.Labs

Melina Finkelstein Rug Co.Labs is a unique label that represents artist collaborations co-created within a global art and craft community. This program launched in March 2025 with K’era Morgan and Jen Garrido during the exhibit: Painting on the Floor- Three California Painters Design Felt Rugs. There are currently four new collaborations scheduled to launch in 2025 with artists in the Bay Area and beyond so stay tuned!

w/ Jen Garrido

w/ K’era Morgan

Melina Finkelstein and K’era Morgan teamed up to produce the K’era Rug which is based on her painting, Portal 1 Escape Through the Ivy, seen sitting on her rug below, right. The K’era Rug debuted at Painting on the Floor- Three California Painters Design Felt Rugs in March 2025. Learn more about K’era Morgan, an L.A based painter and textile designer.

About K’era Morgan

K'era's artistic practice emerges from an intuitive dialogue with nature and the cosmos, where abstract paintings form through organic layers of bold color, marks, and at times paper ephemera. Beginning with only loose sketches, she allows each piece to evolve fluidly, building delicately layered and dynamic compositions that transcends mere visual representation of the natural world, yet channels and reflects nature's rhythmic essence. The Los Angeles-based artist sees the natural world as a mirror for our collective consciousness, using her work to explore the connections between external landscapes and the internal human experience.

As a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a former public relations executive, K’era returned to her artistic roots in 2016 and shortly thereafter, expanded her practice beyond fine art. Through k-apostrophe, a home goods line, she transforms her multimedia works into woven decorative textiles. She collaborates with artisans in Mexico and the United States, bringing her artistic vision into functional pieces that have garnered attention from major brands and publications, including a 2021 feature cover in Dwell Magazine's annual emerging designer issue.

Melina Finkelstein and Jen Garrido teamed up to produce the Jen Rug which is based on her painting, Leaving the Zone, seen in the photo to the right with Jen. The Jen Rug debuted at Painting on the Floor- Three California Painters Design Felt Rugs in March 2025. Learn more about Jen Garrido, a fellow Bay Area painter and textile designer.

About Jen Garrido

Jen Garrido creates paintings that reflect internal dialogue, natural forms, and the materials she works with. She attunes to a study of self that guides her through feeling lost, found, and lost again. Formal elements are inspired by nature—they excavate, uncover, and unearth. And she attunes to her relationship with the medium of the paint or drawing materials, projecting images and forms from a play between her inner landscape and the outside world onto the surface of the canvas. Palette emerges from feeling rather than preconception. 

   A Los Angeles native, Garrido currently lives and works in San Francisco. In addition to being a painter, Jen Garrido is the artist behind Jenny Pennwood, her alter-art-ego and small-batch textile-based line of home goods and wearables. Ultimately, the bodies of work are in conversation with each other and are driven by the principle of a blissful alliance between all colors.