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 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 →

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 →

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 →