Diana Guerrero-Maciá

Chair, Fiber and Material Studies (2016-current). Associate Professor, Fiber Material Studies (2001), Painting (2008). BFA, 1988, Villanova University; MFA, 1992, Cranbrook; Skowhegan, 1992. Solo Exhibitions: South Bend Museum of Art; Carrie Secrist Gallery; Threewalls, Chicago; Artpace; San Antonio, TX; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis; Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago; Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley. Group … Continue reading Diana Guerrero-Maciá →

Danielle Andress

Danielle Andress in an assistant professor in the Fibers and Materials Studies Department. Her work focuses on contemporary identity politics as mediated through popular culture and gendered craft and primarily takes the form of woven cloth. She previously taught at the California College of the Arts. Danielle earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School … Continue reading Danielle Andress →

Jade Yumang

Jade Yumang is an assistant professor in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies. His primary focus is on the concept of queer form through sculptural abstraction, installation, and performance. He received his MFA at Parsons School of Design with Departmental Honors and BFA Honors in University of British Columbia. He is also part of … Continue reading Jade Yumang →

Laura Strand

Professor Laura Strand, head of Textile Arts has a comprehensive back-ground and formal training in weaving, surface design, papermaking, bookbinding and basketry through a BFA from Georgia State University and an MFA from the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She has exhibited widely and lectured throughout the country. As a working artist her interests include the … Continue reading Laura Strand →

Ursula Wagner

Ursula Wagner is a textiles designer, artist and researcher from Berlin, Germany. Her work explores the interplay between material, technology and aesthetics, with a focus on sculptural and three-dimensional aspects of textile construction. Wagner studied textile design at Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin (KHB) and Hiroshima City University, Japan and received an MA from KHB … Continue reading Ursula Wagner →

Anna Gitelson-Kahn

Anna Gitelson-Kahn is a textiles designer, researcher and educator who works primarily in knitting. She received her BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University, Israel and her MFA in Textiles from RISD. Before joining the RISD faculty Gitelson-Kahn taught for six years in the Department of Textile Design at Shenkar College of Design … Continue reading Anna Gitelson-Kahn →

Rhode Island School of Design

Anais Missakian has held a full-time faculty position at RISD for nearly 30 years. In addition to working as a professor and head of the Textiles department, she holds the Pevaroff-Cohn Family Endowed Chair in Textiles and serves as faculty mentor and academic program director for the Sheikha Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Fellowship for … Continue reading Rhode Island School of Design →

Alysha Kupferer

Alysha Kupferer is a textiles artist and Assistant Professor and Chair of Textile and Fashion Design at MECA. She holds an MFA in textiles from Indiana University and taught previously in Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. Alysha’s textiles-based installations and … Continue reading Alysha Kupferer →

Judith Leemann

Judith Leemann is an artist, educator, and writer whose practice focuses on translating operations through and across distinct arenas of practice. A long-standing collaboration with the Boston-based Design Studio for Social Intervention grounds much of this thinking. Leemann is Associate Professor of Fine Arts 3D/Fibers at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and holds an … Continue reading Judith Leemann →

Ann Wessmann

Ann Wessmann is an artist living and working in Boston. She received a BS from Skidmore College and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Wessmann has been a professor in the 3-D Fine Arts Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston since 1978, and has been head of the Fibers program … Continue reading Ann Wessmann →