Deborah Valoma

Deborah Valoma is professor in the Textiles and MFA in Fine Arts programs, where her specialized field of research, teaching, and writing is the cultural history of textiles as a global aesthetic practice. In addition to teaching a comprehensive series of graduate and undergraduate courses on textile history and theory, she has written articles and essays including “Complex Simplicity” (Kay … Continue reading Deborah Valoma →

Angela Hennessy

Angela Hennessy is an Oakland-based artist and Associate Professor at California College of the Arts where she teaches courses on visual and cultural narratives of death and contemporary art. Through writing, studio work, and performance her practice examines mythologies of blackness embedded in linguistic metaphors of color and cloth. Last fall her work was featured … Continue reading Angela Hennessy →

Josh Faught

Reveling in the suburban panic punctuated by an hysterical self-help culture, compulsion toward decoration, and docudramatic tragedy, Josh Faught's current work uses elements of textiles, collage, sculpture, and painting to triangulate between a space that negotiates the history of textiles, a social/political history, and personal history. These mythologized reconfigurations respond to ongoing interests surrounding possibilities … Continue reading Josh Faught →

Richard Elliott

Richard Elliott is an Associate Professor and former program chair in the Textiles program at CCA where he has been teaching Intro. to Textiles, Textile Design, Dyeing and Screen Printing, Digital Textile Printing, Fabric Manipulation and Fiber Sculpture since 1999. His work with image transfer and digital processes on paper, fabric and hog gut (sausage casings) investigates the abstract … Continue reading Richard Elliott →

Diedrick Brackens

Thoughtfully employing the language of weaving and textile making, Diedrick Brackens explores the intersections of identity and sociopolitical issues in the United States. Brackens uses calculated woven algorithms that stem from the cultural histories of African, American, and European textiles to generate his intricate tapestries, seeking to highlight the complexities of African-American identity while also … Continue reading Diedrick Brackens →

Seiko Atsuta Purdue

Seiko Atsuta Purdue is Associate Professor in the Fibers/Fabrics area in the Department of Art at Western Washington University. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Kyoto Seika University in 1992, she came to the United States where she received an MA at Montclair State University and a Masters of Fine Arts from the … Continue reading Seiko Atsuta Purdue →

Jovencio de la Paz

Jovencio de la Paz is an artist, writer, and educator. His work explores the intersection of textile processes such as weaving, dye, and stitchwork as they relate to broader concerns of language, histories of colonization, migrancy, ancient technology, and speculative futures. Interested in the ways transient or ephemeral experiences are embodied in material, de la … Continue reading Jovencio de la Paz →

Angela Ellsworth

Angela Ellsworth is a multidisciplinary artist, Associate Professor in the School of Art, and Founding Director of the Museum of Walking. The Museum of Walking is the only museum of its kind in the United States and is committed to educating about walking as a contemporary art practice. Her research has taken in wide-ranging subjects … Continue reading Angela Ellsworth →

Margarita Cabrera

Margarita Cabrera received an MFA from Hunter College in New York, NY. Cabrera currently lives and works in El Paso where she recently had a two-year exhibit at the El Paso Museum of Art. Her most recent exhibitions include a show entitled “Pop Departures” at the Seattle Art Museum. Her work has been included in … Continue reading Margarita Cabrera →

Erika Hanson

Erika Lynne Hanson creates weavings, videos, and installations that connect diverse materials, histories, and places. Running through her work is a concern with the idea of landscape; specifically how landscape exists, by definition, as a view or representationa space or scene that can never be reached physically. Hanson received a master's in fine arts from California College … Continue reading Erika Hanson →