Textile artists have long used their medium as a vehicle for storytelling. Much like ceramic art, it has long trodden the foggy line between art and craft. It comes dressed in many forms: fibre art, ...

Ajanku has been an artist for her entire life. “I sat at the knees of my quilt-making grandmother,” Ajanku said. “My other grandmother was a crochet hobbyist. Those are the hands that formed ...

Textile art is a medium often described as craft, mostly practiced by women, and has been omitted from archives and historical records,” Potthast recalled.

But you can’t just be a textile artist like you could be a painter. So it’s important for me not to make work in other mediums. For me, it’s important to make this my life’s work.

"Maria Lai. A Journey to America" at Magazzino Italian Art is the first North American museum show for the Sardinian artist.

Periodically overlooked and undervalued, textiles are being embraced by the art world (again), and the art market. Installation view, ‘The New Bend,’ Hauser & Wirth New York 22nd Street, 2022.

”Our art fair is not that well known, so every year we come up with some kind of gimmick to draw attention to it,” says Linda Bingle, 36, a painter and textile artist and the league`s president.

This technique emphasizes the resourcefulness and creativity that is inherent in African textile traditions. Coming from Nigeria, adire textiles are famous for their indigo-dyed patterns. Using ...

Textiles don’t immediately come to mind when thinking about art. But as observers of the creative worlds have noticed, the much heralded crossover between design, craft, and art has upended ...

As a textile artist with a previous career in reproductive justice, Chi Nguyen is no stranger to the potent role that craft can play within activism. “Back in 2016, for the Supreme Court case ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Eniola Dawodu, a British-born Nigerian textile artist, costume designer and cultural archivist, will discuss her exhibition “Punctures: Textiles in Digital and Material Time” at its ...