January 2025: Textile Residency Introductions
This January 2025, we are excited to be receiving our third round of residents in our group residency program, hosted in collaboration with TEXERE.
This sessions residents include: Emelie Richardson, Jay Lee, Alexa Anderson, Faviola Lopez-Romani, Helen Barrass, Dörte Bundt, Diana Eusebio, Kate Bautista, Rosa Fitz, Seyi Adeyinka, and Amelia Burrus-Granger.
We look forward to receiving this group of talented artists, connecting them with our collaborators in Oaxaca, and creating together. Below we share artist statements and photos of residents’ recent work.
Faviola Lopez-Romani
Faviola (she, they them, ella, elle), is a time based artist, educator, and horticulturist investigating intimate architectures of quotidian life and possibilities for growing hospitable infrastructures. Faviola works in textiles and digital media to create instances of détournement to interrogate the violent hegemony of sight and form within the project of modernity to create intuitive narratives.
Faviola’s work in textiles centers on creating covalent relationships between natural dyes and organic fibers; where image may function as infrastructure and infrastructure may function as image.
Seyi Adeyinka
As both a psychiatrist and an artist, I find my work in healing and creativity deeply intertwined. My art practice is an extension of the same curiosity and care I bring to my clinical work—a way to explore, process, and express the complexities of being human. It’s a space where I can embrace imperfection, celebrate discovery, and connect with the transformative power of both art and medicine.
Making art has taught me to trust my inner voice and prioritize what feels right to me. Each small decision, whether it’s choosing a color or placing a stitch, reminds me of the power of everyday choices and the freedom to define my path. Through techniques like quilting, embroidery, natural dyeing, and weaving, I find joy in the process and a sense of calm in the present moment.
Natural dyeing connects me to awe—the magic of transforming plants, minerals, and other raw materials into vibrant, living colors. There is a deep joy in the process of making color, a reminder of the beauty and abundance in the world around us. Quilting helps me practice making decisions and committing to them. Stitching connects me to my hands and lets me express my unique style. Weaving brings me into a flow state where time slows down and everything feels aligned. These practices are more than hobbies—they’re ways for me to explore and recharge, much like mindfulness or therapy.
I didn’t enjoy my premedical courses in biology, physics, and chemistry when I was younger, but they’ve formed a critical foundation in my unfolding and flourishing art practice as an adult. They’ve given me the knowledge to experiment with materials and processes, helping me approach creativity with both curiosity and confidence. This blend of science and art has become a central part of how I think and work, whether I’m in the studio or supporting my patients.
For me, art is a way to reflect, grow, and connect—with myself and the world around me.
Alexa Anderson
Alexa Anderson is a textile artist and natural dyer based in Port Townsend, Washington. Through light wiggler, she creates one-of-a-kind garments, art works, and textiles for the home using recycled, found, and vintage materials. She intentionally works with second-use textiles and natural dyes including plants, minerals, and food matter in an effort to center her values of transforming and repurposing what already exists.
Katerine Bautista
Katherine Bautista (b. 1995) is a Mexican and American visual artist and tailor based currently in Geneva, Switzerland. She trained as a bespoke tailor at the London College of Fashion and as a shirtmaker at Huntsman on Savile Row prior to completing her education at HEAD in Geneva. Her interests are focused on the material analysis of the “fashion object,” and their production and processes of assemblage. Bautista’s work included building fictional business models for fashion enterprises which explore different economic ideologies and including speculative production lines. Within her sewing and weaving textile practice she also explores the dichotomies of what is crafted and industrially produced.
Diana Eusebio
Diana Eusebio is a Peruvian-Dominican multidisciplinary artist based in Miami. Her artistic practice is centered on color and its cultural significance. She researches natural dyed textiles from Indigenous Latin American and Afro-Caribbean traditions, recognizing their connection to nature and their role as carriers of ancestral wisdom. Eusebio's fusion of ancestral and modern techniques, including dyeing and photography, contributes to contemporary cultural preservation and celebrates the rich heritage and Pre-Columbian knowledge embedded within these communities. Her work is a powerful testament to the enduring cultural tapestry of these regions.
Eusebio holds a BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has presented her work at the MoMa, Hall of Nations, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, and Rubell Museum. Studio residencies include Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO; Red Hook Labs, NY, NY; Oolite Arts, Miami; AIRIE Fellowship, Everglades National Park; INDEX MECA Art Fair, Dominican Republic; Deering Estate Studio Residency, Miami. Awards include the Obama administration’s U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts–the highest national honor for a young artist- and National YoungArts Jorge M. Perez Award.
Dörte Bundt
Dorte is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice lies at the intersection of fine art, craft, and design. Her evocative textile and ceramic works transcend traditional boundaries, blending raw natural materials such as cotton, jute, raffia, and clay into sculptural pieces that explore themes of transformation, symbolism, and the interplay between space and texture.
Deeply inspired by the intrinsic qualities of her materials, as well as the organic beauty of natural landscapes, Dörte’s work reimagines traditional techniques within a contemporary context. The textures, imperfections, and possibilities inherent in each material guide her creative process, resulting in artworks that are both tactile and conceptually rich. While her large-scale, hand-knotted and woven tapestries—often centered around portal-like forms —invite contemplation on transition, possibility, and the unknown, her wider practice includes sculptural forms and experimental designs that emphasize materiality and spatial relationships.
Dörte’s works have been exhibited internationally and integrated into bespoke interior projects, bridging the gap between functional design and fine art. As the founder of California Dreaming, she is also known for her collaborations with global brands, merging artistic expression with innovative design solutions.
Her collections invite audiences to engage deeply with the tactile and symbolic, creating a dialogue between craftsmanship, materiality, and modern art.
Rosie Fitz
“These hands will build” is a tribute to my hands & all they allow me to do.
My hands are the ultimate gift, and they are at their best when in soil, transforming clay, or in between the strings of my loom.
My work explores interwoven themes of lineage, re-mothering, and re- membering, offering a deeply personal question of what it means to carry the weight and wisdom of multi-generational migration. How can I, in my work, imagine a future where healing, freedom, and creativity thrive in the spaces once defined by survival?
These hands will carry the legacy of my ancestors, guiding me as I create, dream, and heal.
Amelia Burrus-Granger
Amelia Margaret Burrus-Granger is a Brooklyn-based designer, maker, and educator. As the Creative Director and Instructor at Studio FADEN, a company dedicated to hand-knitting pattern design and instruction, she blends her extensive experience in luxury knitwear design with a deep commitment to craft. After 15 years in the fashion industry, Amelia is refocusing her creative practice on what first inspired her: the process of making. Through her work as both a teacher and a maker, she is passionate about sharing knowledge and fostering meaningful connections to craft, encouraging others to engage more intentionally with the act of creation in their everyday lives.
Emelie Richardson
Emelie Richardson’s handwoven works blur the boundaries of traditional craft and painting. Emelie earned a BFA from the University of Kentucky, where she first began to explore the relational possibilities of formal painting and fiber art. In Emelie’s handwoven paintings, chance and improvisation have become integral elements to the laborious process of weaving, in which fluid line and form cannot be easily controlled. Allowing materials to play a large role in informing the work, Emelie highlights spontaneous subtle shifts in surface texture and tonality. Emelie currently lives and works in Chimayo, New Mexico.
helen barrass
Helen Barrass is an artist living and working in London, specialising in sustainable textile art using natural pigments, bio-waste, and reclaimed materials. A self-taught printmaker for the past 15 years, Helen has a keen interest in using non-toxic, bio-pigments for print as an alternative to toxic, synthetic inks and fabrics. Her textile experience includes weaving, embroidery, screen printing on fabric, and working with a range of different mediums including cyanotype, seasonal natural local dye, and shibori.
jay lee
Jay Lee is a Seoul-born interdisciplinary artist whose nomadic practice examines the material qualities of time, memory, and place. Her site-specific installations —spanning painting, sculpture, found objects, video, and photography— employ diverse mediums to explore how we change within familiar versus foreign environments. Her process begins with research into materials of local, natural, or historical significance that resonate with the places she inhabits, reflecting her interest in the transient and relational nature of human experiences. Each work serves as an intimate dialogue between past and present, inviting viewers to consider their own evolving sense of self, belonging, and home.
