Interview
Diné Weaver Venancio Aragón Dyes Wool With Kool-Aid
The Diné weaver and teacher reimagines pre-trading-post-era weaving techniques, continually coloring his practice with new aesthetic and material horizons.
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Art Review
Eric-Paul Riege Reconfigures the Monument
The artist transforms Diné mythology, weaving, and metal work into something unparalleled and playful.
Interview
A Diné Weaver’s Revolutionary Looms
DY Begay, best known for her abstract textiles featuring undulating bands of color, speaks about her decades-long practice of experimenting with pigment and form.
Art Review
The Mesmerizing Wonder of Wabanaki Weaving
Jeremy Frey’s first museum show presents the artist’s virtuosic craft as must-see contemporary work.
Art Review
Weaving That Opens to the World and Heavens
Claudia Alarcón and the Wichí women weavers who compose the collective Silät create artworks that seem to channel land and celestial bodies.
Art
Reviving Tsimshian Weaving With Threads of Community
Colonial law forced many of our art practices into a deep slumber. Now, I am the first person in the US from my community to hold the skills to craft Chilkat dancing blankets.
Book Review
The Legendary Weavers of Black Mountain College
As a new book shows, the school’s teachings continue to influence creative practices.
Art
The Ohlone Basket Weaver Who Revived a Rumsen Artistic Tradition
Linda Yamane taught herself the intricate and nearly extinct craft over 100 years after the last Rumsen basketmakers died.
Art
Qualeasha Wood Weaves the Online Into the IRL
code_anima brings together jacquard-woven, tufted, and resin diamond-studded works in the artist’s most intimate performance of self to date.
Art
Melissa Cody’s Disruptive Warp and Weft
The Diné artist demonstrates that traditional techniques and motifs are not static, but are dynamic bearers of emotional weight.
Art
A Fiber-Forward Vision of Modern Art
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art makes the case that textiles are an integral part of modernist art history.
Interview
Weaver Roy Kady Is a Shepherd First
“That’s what traditional Navajo weaving is: an interpretation of your environment,” the Diné artist told Hyperallergic in an interview.