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textile arts

A portrait of Dindga McCannon smiling on a New York street, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and a colorful garment printed with women’s faces.

Dindga McCannon Has Been Stitching Black History into the American Art Canon for 60 Years

Fridman Gallery's survey of the Harlem-born artist brings together quilts, paintings and prints from the 1970s to today, grouped by affinity rather than chronology. The works show how her blend of fabric, found objects and paint was ahead of its time and remains strikingly current.
By Elisa Carollo
A portrait of artist Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka wearing a mustard halter top, posed in front of a large black-and-white abstract artwork.

Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka Found a Blueprint for Survival in Ancestral Ways of Making

At the Venice Biennale and beyond, the Japanese Canadian artist turns handmade paper into sculpture that links psychological wellness, ecology and the attunement to nature modern life rejects. The solutions to humanity's problems, according to Hatanaka, are within reach, embedded in knowledge passed down from generation to generation: "This includes traditions that connect us to our bodies, to nature and to one another."
By Elisa Carollo
An outdoor scene shows a woman eating at a garden table with two small humanoid robots seated nearby, surrounded by dense greenery and domestic objects.

Céline Shen and the Art of Living With A.I.

Her practice imagines artificially intelligent machines and systems not as threats or antagonists but as humanity's companions in shared ecologies.
By Elisa Carollo

Meet the Collector: Karun Thakar’s Mission to Share the Hidden Histories of Indian Chintz

By Cyrus Naji
A gallery installation featuring three cylindrical wooden sculptures arranged on the floor facing a gridded abstract painting mounted on a white wall.

Charlotte Edey Creates Mesmerizing Portals Linking Body, Psyche and Environment

By Elisa Carollo
Colorful woven textile artwork mounted on a white gallery wall, depicting a figure in a patterned blue coat walking outdoors among trees and fields. Abstract shapes, bold florals, and zigzag patterns fill the right half, blending landscape imagery with decorative, tapestry-like textures and visible fringed edges.

Christina Forrer’s Whimsical Wonderlands of Myth and Memory

By Mya Ward
Gulnur Mukazhanova standing in front of a long red textile artwork densely layered with felt, fabric and decorative elements, with her hands in her pockets inside an exhibition space.

Gulnur Mukazhanova’s Felt-Making as Philosophy

By Paige Haran
Artist Zoë Buckman stands in her studio beside two large embroidered and painted textile portraits of women, with brushes and materials arranged on a small table in front of her.

Zoë Buckman’s Intimate Embroideries Claim Space for Memory, Grief and Jewish Identity

By Elisa Carollo
A close-up view of a person’s bare feet entangled in red and white plastic tubing, evoking vulnerability and physical connection.

Chiharu Shiota Weaves Historical Memory, Body and Belonging in “Two Home Countries”

By Elisa Carollo
An image of Erin M. Riley standing in her studio, surrounded by her large woven tapestries that feature human figures, abstract patterns, and birthday motifs.

At PPOW, Erin M. Riley Weaves Her Own Story

By Sarah Moroz
Artist Melissa Joseph sits on vibrantly painted outdoor steps featuring soft-focus imagery of figures and faces, wearing a black and white patterned dress.

Melissa Joseph Scales Up Poignancy in Public Spaces With ‘Tender’

By Elisa Carollo
Installation view with textile pieces featuring faces of semi deities

How Pacita Abad Wove a Multicultural Tapestry of Humanity

By Elisa Carollo
A quilt in shades of pink, blue, red and gray set in geometric patterns

One Fine Show: ‘Patterns in Abstraction’ at the High Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
Installation view with textile sculptures

For Suchitra Mattai, Materials Are Vessels of Cultural Memories

By Elisa Carollo
A woman with a pink cardigan stands in front of an embroidered artwork

‘Eliza Kentridge, Tethering’ at Cecilia Brunson Projects Is Heavy With Meaning

By Frances Forbes-Carbines
A colorful painting of a pig with stylized folk art details

Maria Prymachenko’s Show at The Ukrainian Museum Rekindles the Potency of Folk Art

By Farah Abdessamad

Suchitra Mattai Envisions a Future of Brown Reclamation

By Ayesha Le Breton
A tapestry hanging on an otherwise blank wall

Citing Her Sources: Elaine Reichek’s New Clothes at Shoshana Wayne

By Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

Mexican Textile Artist Victoria Villasana Believes Creation Is Vital to Self-Growth

By Avani Thakkar
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