KAYLA POWERS

Kayla Powers 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.

1 Before the Rain

2 First Shadows

3 White Light

4 New Light

ANNIE MILLICAN

Annie Millican is a textile artist and designer who lives between Sedona, AZ and Providence, RI. Her work touches on themes of play, whimsy, and peace. She experiments with natural dyes and natural and synthetic yarns to explore the happy accidents that occur when materials interact on the woven grid.

1 New Moon

JESS FEURY

Jess Feury is a textile artist from the Bay Area, currently living in North Carolina. She draws inspiration from nature, folk art, and the world inside of and around her. This new body of work is a study of climate change and finding organization and beauty in nature, amidst an ever evolving natural landscape. 

1 Red Flower

2 Yellow Flower

3 Mineral

JIM OLARTE

Olarte’s work ranges from large to small installations created out of marine objects that he’s found or salvaged. Each piece, whether a delicate seashell or a piece of wave-tumbled driftwood, is treated with respect, as coequal elements of an infinity of integrated life cycles. These bits from the sea and shore are often knotted into his macrame art. He doesn’t drill holes into any natural element of the earth, shells or rocks, but only uses their natural or eroded holes and openings.

1 Hydra

DORA SOMOSI

Dora Somosi is a Hungarian-American lens-based artist living and working in Brooklyn and Upstate, NY. Her impressionistic imagery explores the intersection of the everyday and the sublime: waves crashing, thick fog, treetop canopies, saturated sunsets, the ever-expanding horizon. Central to her process is the reshaping of the photographic image.

1 Folds

EMELIE RICHARDSON

Emelie Richardson’s handwoven works blur the boundaries of traditional craft and painting. In Emelie’s handwoven paintings, chance and improvisation have become integral elements to the laborious process of weaving, in which fluid line and form cannot be easily controlled. Allowing the materials to play a large role in informing the work, Emelie highlights spontaneous subtle shifts in surface texture and tonality. Emelie currently lives and works in Chimayo, New Mexico.

1 Deeper Well

2 Maintenance VII

ETHAN CAFLISCH

Caflisch is currently living and working in London, England. His diverse studio practice encompasses painting, sculpture, photography, and film work. His works are rooted in material, process and form. It started with ceramics and has since evolved to sculpture, quilted textile paintings, photography and progressively acrylic and oil painting. His practice has been a constant movement forward, introducing new materials to make pieces that still find their foundation in sculpture, but equally exist as painting.

1 alone at home X

2 alone at home IX

3 alone at home VII

4 alone at home VIII