RSVP for Katie Community picnic in Prospect Park, on Sunday, June 21st at 10am!
Katie Coughlin and Cat Mailloux’s collaborative practice centers around sculptural textiles which hold, extend, and locate experience. Working across installation, three-dimensional form, and performance, their structural textiles explore volume and material through methods of tension, tracing, and patterning. Drawing from influences of quilting, garment construction, and ideas of the vessel, their work moves between two and three dimensions, shifting from intimate to architectural scales. These explorations consider how fiber forms can carry memory, register touch, and situate the body in space.
Katie Coughlin received her MFA from The Ohio State University(2018) and her BFA from Alfred University(2010). Her work pulls from remembered observances; through a slow dive into material (primarily clay & cloth), old memories soften and fold into my self-defined rememberings. Harnessing traces of memory to expand and incorporate the human body, vessels are created alongside sculptural objects. Katie has been an Artist in Residence at Red Lodge Clay Center and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. She has received multiple awards, including the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center, the Warren Mackenzie Advancement Award from Northern Clay Center, and a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. A native New Yorker, Katie returned to the city in 2018 and lives and works in Brooklyn. She recently opened a neighborhood teaching studio - Ovington Pottery, in Southern Brooklyn.
Cat Mailloux is a fiber artist working across quilting, sculpture, and installation, based in Columbus, OH. She is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Cedarville University and holds an MFA in Sculpture from Ohio State University. Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries such as Women Made Gallery (Chicago), Skylab Gallery (Columbus), and the Museum of Herzegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina). She has attended residencies at Vermont Studio Centers, PADA Studios in Portugal, and Walkaway House in Massachusetts. Mailloux is the recipient of grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council, Cedarville University, and The Ohio State University.
We welcome Katie + Cat to the studio as our June WIP residents!
You can visit their studio on Sundays from 2pm to 5pm.
Textile Arts Center’s Work in Progress (TAC WIP) is a window into the studio practice of contemporary artists and designers that engages the public in a dialogue with the field of textiles.