Textile Arts Center is pleased to announce the Jury Committee for AIR Cycle 18 application reviews.
Textile Arts Center's Artist in Residence (TAC AIR) combines studio access with a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum, and regular critical dialogue, providing residents an opportunity to learn and explore the textile medium, and an alternative to traditional higher education programs.
The residency culminates in a group exhibition produced and hosted by TAC. Since 2010, TAC AIR has graduated over 100 artists and designers whose work continues to further textile art within the fashion, fine arts, design and art education fields.
TAC AIR Cycle 18 will run from October 2026 to June 2027, artists will exhibit in September, 2027.
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The Textile Arts Center is committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in all its programs. TAC's Artist In Residence Scholarship Fund will support one talented artist or designer whose career will be benefited by the program.
Apply now! We are accepting applications until March 06.
Cycle 16 residents are selected through a two-stage, competitive selection process judged by TAC staff and professionals with expertise, knowledge, and long-standing work in different fields of textile arts.
Read more about the AIR 18 Jury below:
Ricki Dwyer is an artist from the San Francisco Bay Area, currently working in Brooklyn. His practice considers the intersections of material, industry, and the somatic. His work acknowledges drapery as the negotiation that things never fall the same way twice. Dwyer has had solo exhibitions with Anglim/Trimble in San Francisco, Rupert in Lithuania, and Volume in Chicago. In 2022 he participated in the Biennale de Lyon in collaboration with Nicki Green. He has been artist in residence with Recology, Jupiter Woods Gallery in London, The Textile Arts Center in New York, ARTHAUS Havana, and most recently in the foundry of Kohler Co, in Wisconsin. In 2024 Dwyer was a Bronx Museum AIM Fellow. He received his undergraduate degree in Fibers from the Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA from UC Berkeley. Dwyer currently teaches with Parsons School of Design.
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is a Brooklyn-based transdisciplinary artist whose work spans textiles, sculpture, painting, and installation. Working through precarious amalgamations that hold ruptured inheritances, she creates sites of collective reckoning rooted in her Thai and Indonesian heritage. Phingbodhipakkiya employs materials such as hand-knotted rope, reclaimed textiles, talismans, and vessels to investigate themes of absence, displacement, and inherited trauma—transforming them into expressions of resilience, ritual, and repair. Her practice foregrounds the embodied knowledge of immigrant communities and the often-invisible labor of women, constructing liminal spaces where memory, touch, and materiality intersect.
Phingbodhipakkiya’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Brooklyn Museum, the Bangkok Art and Culture Center, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She has held residencies with the NYC Commission on Human Rights, Materials for the Arts, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Phingbodhipakkiya is a 2025 Artists & Mothers Grantee, a 2024 New York City Artadia Awardee and a 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Visual Arts.
Fay Ku is a Taiwan-born, New York City-based artist whose work is figurative, narrative and connects with past and present cultural histories. She is the recipient of a 2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant and 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship grant and was a finalist for the NYFA fellowship in 2023. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at the Honolulu Museum of Art (Honolulu, Hawaii), Marlboro College (Marlboro, VT), New Britain Museum of American Art (New Britain, CT) and Snite Museum of Art (South Bend, IN). Her work was recently included in the Brooklyn Museum’s “The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition.”
In addition her recent artist residency at the Textile Art Center as one of the 2024-2025 TAC 16 cohorts, she has also been an artist-in-residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), Fountainhead Residency (Miami, FL), The Hermitage Artist Retreat, (Sarasota, FL), Lower East Side Printshop (New York, NY), Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (New York, NY), Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM), Tamarind Institute (Albuquerque, NV), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Mount St. Angelo, VA), Wave Hill (The Bronx, NY), Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY) and will at the MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, NH) in early 2026.
Ku is currently Adjunct Associate Professor at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and Pratt in Venice Summer program, Venice, Italy. She attended Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont for her B.A. and holds both a M.F.A. Studio Art and M.S. Art History from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Ku is represented by H Gallery, Paris, France.
Kelly Valletta is an artist, art educator and one of the founding team members of TAC. She attended Pratt Institute where she received her Masters in Art Education. She believes that the arts can play a vital role in community engagement, and thoroughly enjoys sharing her broad knowledge of art with people of all ages.
Romina Chuls (1991, Lima) is a researcher and multidisciplinary artist. Her work focuses on postcolonial gender issues in Peru and Latin America. She holds an M.A. in Arts Politics from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (2022). She earned a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, majoring in painting, from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in 2016. In 2021, she was granted the AAUW International Fellowship to support her studies at NYU and her research on anti-colonial pregnancy interruption practices. She is currently participating in the A.I.R. Gallery fellowship program, which culminates in a solo show in 2026.
Her solo shows include Parir los Pétalos (2023), an exhibition that articulates an understanding of abortion as part of a collective and more-than-human fertility cycle, at Real Art Ways, Hartford; Clandestinas (2020), a project that portrays the emotional stage of being pregnant with an unwanted being in a context where abortion is criminalized, at Galería Forum, Lima; and Tierra Incógnita (2017) at Fundación Euroidiomas, Lima. Her work has been shown in spaces such as Kunstraum (NYC, USA), at Palácio e Centro e Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimaraes, Portugal), at Museo de Sitio Julio C. Tello (Paracas, Peru) and Matamoros (Oaxaca, México).