Artist in Residence

Clare Hu is an interdisciplinary artist working in textiles, digital collage and sculpture. Hu's practice investigates the evolving landscapes and liminal spaces in the suburbs of Georgia. Her works often involves the use of collage and layering material and imagery from fragmented memories. Utilizing themes of permeability and repetition, Hu analyzes what it means to come to terms with a place - both familiar and foreign. Clare holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a recent fellow at the Hambidge Center.

Elaine Shen is a textile artist and designer from the Bay Area, currently based in Brooklyn. Fueled by a passion for all things knit and print, her work explores themes in domestic relationships and bodily feelings and often takes the form of objects to be worn on the body. Her interest in objects for the body is rooted in the belief that the way we dress our bodies is more often than not a reflection of our internal and external relationships. Color and pattern has always played a large role in her textile expression and her favorite color is chartreuse. She holds a BFA in Textiles from Rhode Island School of Design.

Elizabeth Tolson is an Artist and Educator who uses the language of textiles to create narratives about the female body. Her soft sculptures are reminiscent of body shapes and her patterns explore ideas about the body. Elizabeth holds a MFA from Parsons School of Design and a BFA from Alfred University. She has participated in residencies at Trestle Projects, Chashama’s ChaNorth, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Open Wabi, and ProjectArt at the Bushwick Brooklyn Library. Exhibitions include the Textile Arts Center, Local Projects in Queens, NY, Target Gallery in Alexandria, VA, and Cuchifritos Gallery, NY. She is currently based in Brooklyn where she is Part-time Faculty at Parsons School of Design and a Lead Teaching Artist at Brooklyn College Community Partnership.

Emily is a multidisciplinary artist and curator from Northern California. Her work is concerned with the tensions between universal and local grief. She plays with semiotic theory and 'camp' to form aesthetic themes drawn from a fascination with apocalypse narratives. Emily was recognized by The Rhode Island School of Design as a distinguished graduate in 2018 for her textiles practice. Since then she has worked at Free People and Yowie. She is a founding member of Dollhouse Philly, a DIY arts initiative in Philadelphia. She is also a current MA candidate at Columbia University for Modern and Contemporary art history, critical and curatorial practices.

Francisco (Echo) Eraso is a colombian-american interdisciplinary fiber artist, writer and performer. His work navigates the overlaps of trans liberation, decolonizing latinidad and disability justice through magical realism and the color gold. He has received a BA/BFA in Visual Studies and Fine Arts from Parsons, The New School. He is currently an Artist in Residence at the Textile Arts Center. His work has been presented at a variety of venues including The Flux Factory, Franklin Street Works, The Sheila C. Johnson Gallery among others. Francisco currently lives in Brooklyn and works as an administrator and organizer for Third Root Community Health Center.

Jeanne F. Jalandoni is a painter and textile artist based in Uptown Manhattan. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from New York University. In 2019 Jeanne was a Real Art Ways Grant Recipient and a recipient of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement Grant. In 2018 she was an artist-in-residence at 36 Chase & Barns Residency (North Adams, MA).
Jeanne combines painting and textile to parallel her perception of her Filipino American identity. By referencing food, national symbols, historical and ancestral archives, Jeanne invites viewers to question bicultural tangibility. Utilizing various elements in her work allows her to explore the multicultural layers of Filipino identity as well as challenge and edit any predetermined characteristics of Filipino American identity.

Jessica Elena Aquino is a Chicanx interdisciplinary artist from Santa Ana, CA. She draws from cultural iconography, memory and mythology and overlaps them with the mediation on Latinidad and labor. Aquino earned her B.A from Colgate University and MFA at the PA Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited at Pilot Projects, Da Vinci Art Alliance; PAFA, Vox Populi, and Anna Zorina Gallery. She has won numerous awards such as the Alumni Council Award and the Murray Dessner Travel Grant.

Ryan Scails (b. 1987, Danbury, CT) most recent exhibitions include a solo show titled Another Now at SARDINE, Here Today | Gone Tomorrow at Space Create (Newburgh, NY) curated by Lacey Fekishazy, Able Bodies at 287 Gallery (Danbury, CT) and Object Lessons|Adaptive Research at High Desert Test Sites HQ (Yucca Valley, CA). In between shows Scales’ has also participated in residencies at MASS MoCA (MA) and A-Z West (CA). He's interested in the relationship between texture, contact and use, and feels linked to those factors as a matter of historical convention. The built world gives humans context in ways that tend to confront the limits of their bodies and the matter that surrounds them. He personally feels this way as he traverses caustic situations as a person of color.