Kayla Powers (b. 1988) is a place-based artist and naturalist who makes ecologically focused textile art with and about the living world. She employs the traditional practices of foraging, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to explore the common threads of our shared humanity with the intention of creating connections - to the earth, to craft, and to each other.

Kayla holds an MFA in Fiber Art from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BA in Art History from Western Michigan University. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Australian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne, Australia, Stetson University in Deland, Florida, and Simone DeSousa Gallery in Detroit, Michigan among others. She has participated in numerous artist residencies nationally and internationally including AiR Green in Norway, the Icelandic Textile Center Residency in Iceland, and Breck Create in Breckenridge, Colorado. She was the 2025 International Artist in Residence and Hancock Fellow at Australian Tapestry Workshop, and a 2025 recipient of an Environmental Artistic Activism Grant from the Puffin Foundation. Kayla was awarded the President’s Award for Sustainability from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a Windgate Fellowship at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and a Knight Art Grant in Detroit, Michigan in 2020.

2024
60” x 48”
Cotton, silk, madder root, cochineal, iron, drop cloth
$6,500

2024
22” x 28”
Cotton, silk, indigo, chamomile, cochineal, drop cloth
$3,400

2024
21” x 20”
Cotton, beads, thread, drop cloth
$2,800

2024
16” x 16”
Cotton, silk, madder root, drop cloth
$2,200