Curriculum Vitae (abridged)
_EDUCATION
2020
PhD, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
2003
MA Textiles. Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
2001
BFA Studio Art, concentration in Fiber, Concordia University, Montreal (Canada)
_CURRENT POSITION
2017–present
Associate Professor of Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Department chair from 2019–2023
Assistant Professor from 2011–2017
2013–present
Affiliated full-time faculty in Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
_PAST PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2020-2026
Guest Curator, On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, Textile Galleries, Art Institute of Chicago . On view from September 6, 2025-March 15, 2026
2022-2025
Guest Editor, On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival. Art Institute of Chicago Press, distributed by Yale University Press, 2025
2023-2025
Academic Symposia Chair, Textile Society of America
+ Chaired and organized the Society's 2024 international Symposium, Shifts and Strands: Rethinking the Possibilities and Potentials of Textiles
Co-Vice President, Textile Society of America
2021-2023
Board of Directors, Textile Society of America
2014-2021
Associate Editor, Textile: Cloth and Culture. International peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor and Francis
2019
Adjunct Faculty, Master of Arts in Critical and Historical Craft Studies, Warren Wilson College, Asheville NC. Taught Canons, Craft, Colonialisms, a module on fiber and craft histories and canons
2004-2006
Visiting Lecturer, MA Textiles, Goldsmiths
Visiting Lecturer, BA Textiles, Goldsmiths
_SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Book
On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival. Co-edited with Isaac Facio, Nneka Kai, and Anne Wilson. Art Institute of Chicago Press, distributed by Yale University Press, 2025.
+ Co-author of "Curators Introduction: On Loss and Absence." With Isaac Facio, Nneka Kai, and Anne Wilson
Visual essays and new forms
"New Demands? Part II."Counter-Signals 4: Identity Is The Crisis (2021):
"New Demands? Part I." Counter-Signals 2: Hieroglyphs of the Anti-Commodity (2017): 50-69
Chapters in Edited Books
"The Subversive Stitch Revisited." In A Companion to Textile Culture, edited by Jennifer Harris. Wiley Blackwell, 2020
"The Sewing Rebellion." In Makers, Crafters, Educators: Working for Cultural Change, edited by Lisa Hochtritt, Elizabeth Garber, and Manisha Sharma. Routledge, 2020
"Outside the White Cube.". In Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm 1930-present, edited by Alla Myzelev. Ashgate Books, Routledge, 2017
"F*** Homework: Danica Maier's Art of Domestic Subversion." In Danica Maier, Grafting Propriety: From Stitch to the Drawn Line. Black Dog Press, 2016
"Victoria Stanton: Performance and the art of transaction." In Caught in the Act: Anthology of Performance by Canadian Women, Volume II, edited by Tanya Mars and Johanna Householder. YYZ Books, 2016
"Performing Globalization in the Textile Industry: Anne Wilson and Mandy Cano Villalobos." In The Handbook of Textile Culture, edited by Janis Jefferies, Hazel Clark, And Diana Wood Conroy. Bloomsbury Academic, 2015
Special issue
Guest Editor, "Crafting Community".Textile: Cloth and Culture 14, no.1 (2016). Special issue. With Dr. Kirsty Robertson
+ Co-author with Kirsty Robertson, "Crafting Community: An Introduction." Textile: Cloth and Culture 14, no.1 (2016): 2-13, https://doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2016.1084794
Essays in cultural journals
"Publish/Perish." Counter-Signals 5: Systems and Their Discontents, 2024: 136-157
"Whitework Textiles, White Supremacy, and 'Whitework' as a Call to Action.".Dilettante Army, Winter 2023: unpag. https://dilettantearmy.com/articles/whitework
Catalog Essays
"Praxis / Praxis: The Jacquard as a Tool of Resistance". Catalog essay for the exhibition Praxis and Practice, Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland, 2023
"Unsettling 'Women's Work". Catalog essay for Through Her Eye. Mana Contemporary Chicago, 2019
Short form writing and reviews
"SITE VISIT: Anne Wilson, Davis Street Drawing Room." Bridge Magazine, December 19, 2022.
"Weaving Lab: Social + Science." Surface Design Journal, Summer 2019
"ektor garcia, sangre y barro." Exhibition text for ektor garcia, sangre y barro. Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto (Canada), 2019
"The Art of Repair." Surface Design Journal, Fall 2016
"Carole Frances Lung: Resisting The Global Garment Industry." Surface Design Journal, Summer/Fall 2015
_SELECTED PAPERS and CHAIRED SESSIONS AT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
2024
Session Chair and organizer, "Never Submit!" College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago
2023
Paper: "The Monument Quilt: A Patchwork of Survival". College Art Association Annual Conference, New York
2018
Paper: "Unsettling Craft Histories: Colonization, Industrialization, and the Textile Crafts". Shared Ground: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Craft Studies . Presented by the Bard Graduate Center, The Museum of Art and Design, and the Center for Craft.
Paper: "Unsettling the Fiber Canon".Critical Craft Forum program at the College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles
2017
Paper: "Teaching arts and activism in Chicago". Association of the Arts of the Present (ASAP 9), Oakland CA
2016
Paper: “Performing Globalization: Movement, Migration and Materiality".Textile Society of America’s 15th Biennial Symposium, Savannah, GA
Paper: "The 'new' subversive stitch". Textile Society of America’s 15th Biennial Symposium, Savannah, Georgia
2014
Session Co-chair and organizer, "Crafting Community: Textiles, Collaboration and Social Space". College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago. With Dr. Kirsty Robertson
2013
Paper: "Carole Frances Lung's Sewing Rebellion: Resisting the Global Apparel Industry, One Stitch at a Time".The Subversive Stitch Revisited, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK)
Paper: "Crafting the social: craft, collaboration, and skill". College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City
2012
Co-chair, "Material Matters: The Politics of Making and Materials and Materials". Textile Society of America Symposium, Washington DC. With Ingrid Bachmann and Ruth Scheuing
Paper: "Performing Globalization". Performance Studies International 18, Leeds (UK)
_SELECTED VISITING and PUBLIC LECTURES
2025
Curators' Roundtable, On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival. Art Institute of Chicago. With Isaac Facio, Nneka Kai, and Anne Wilson
2020
"ILGWU @ ILGWU: The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union at the Institute for Labor, Generosity, and Workers". Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Rancho Cucamonga CA. In conjunction with the exhibit Fashion Conscious
2018
"Social Fabrics". Maryland College Institute of Art
2016
"Textiles for Social Change". McKinney Visiting Artist Lecture, Indiana University, Bloomington IN,
"Crafting the Social: Reskilling to Change the World". Sculpture Department, Tulane University, New Orleans
2015
"Crafting Community". Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, 2015.
"Social Fabrics". Fibers and Material Practices, Concordia University, Montreal (Canada)
_SELECTED EXHIBITION RECORD
Guest curated
On Loss and Absence: Textiles of Mourning and Survival, Textile Galleries, Art Institute of Chicago, with Isaac Facio, Nneka Kai, and Anne Wilson. On view from September 6, 2025-March 15, 2026
Solo Exhibitions
2017
New Demands? Sector 2337 Project Space, Chicago, 2017.
New Demands? Artspace NY in conjunction with Art in Action at the College Art Association annual conference
2016
New Demands? Spudnik Press Cooperative, Chicago IL
2015
New Demands? For the Thundercloud Generation, Chicago IL, 2015.
2014
New Demands? Exit Space at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids MI, 2014
Public performances
2013
New Demands? Performance Studies International 19, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
New Demands? 2nd Floor Rear festival, Chicago, IL
2012
New Demands? Grace Exhibition Space, New York NY
New Demands? Articule Gallery special projects, Montreal (Canada)
New Demands? Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival, organized by Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago IL
Assembly, Open Engagement, Portland State University, Portland OR
Group Exhibitions
2024
Declaration, Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, Hamilton (Canada)
Standards Variance, curated by Brandon Alvendia and Greg Ruffing as part of Practices in Proximity: Learning and Unlearning from Pedagogical Experiences, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, Chicago
2023
For Those Without Choice, Weinberg/Newton Gallery
2016
Craft Advanced Research Projects Agency, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland OR
2015
I Can't Breathe, ARC Gallery, Chicago (juried by Dr. Romi Crawford)
The Power and Politics of Anger, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
An Invisible Hand, Weinberg/Newton Gallery
Festivals and Screenings
2007
Durban International Film Festival, Durban South Africa
2006
Videomedeja 10th International Video Festival, The Museum of Voivodina, Novi Sad Serbia
Freewaves 10th Festival of New Media Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,
The State of the World: Personal reflections on war, politics, society, race and gender, LAAA/Film & Video 825 and Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
Levinas: Ethics of Encounter, Centennial Conference on Levinas and Law, McGill University, Montreal
Mobile Exposure, Dallas Video Festival, Dallas TX; Central Cinema, Seattle; Project 101, Paris; Brighton International Film Festival, Brighton UK; Clone Digital Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland; Mesa Contemporary Arts at Mesa Arts Center, Mesa AZ
FilmLichter06 International Short Film Festival Detmold, Detmold Germany
Scanners: The New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York NY
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Athens Video Art Festival, Athens Greece
Videonale 11, Berlin
VideoFormes XXIième Manifestation Internationale d'arts vidéo et nouveaux médias, Clermont-Ferrand France. Competition Prix de la Création Vidéo. (Catalog)
2005
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, Bangkok Thailand
2003
Dataland, Ed Video Media Arts Centre, Guelph Canada
2002
flow, a new media exhibition at the Images Film and Video Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2002
_FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS
Faculty Enrichment Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
Craft Research Grant, Craft Research Fund, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Asheville NC, 2018
Shapiro Graduate Research Fellowship for 2017-2018, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Craft Research Fund Travel Grant, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC, 2016
EAGER Grant, Earl and Brenda Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2016
Finalist for the Emerging Voices Award, American Craft Council, 2014
Craft Research Fund Travel Grant, Center for Craft, 2013
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada (Co-applicant with Kelly Thompson and Dr. Kirsty Robertson), 2011
Doctoral Fellowship. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005-2008
Doctoral Fellowship, Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture du Québec, (now the Fonds du recherche du Québec), 2005-2008
Master's Research Fellowship, Fonds de formation de chercheurs et l'aide à la recherche, (now the Fonds du recherche du Québec), 2001-2003.