Sabiha, the colors and 5/6 shuttle wefts that you used turned out amazing!

Weaving on: Lou
Joining us from: Chicago

Tell us about yourself and what led you to the residency?

My work explores the fragile and fleeting nature of memory. I often work with traces left behind by places and moments, using textile as a medium to quietly archive what might otherwise fade. I first came across the open call in 2022 and was thrilled at the possibility of working with the TC2 loom again, last used during my time at SAIC. When I visited Praxis in 2023, I reconnected deeply with digital weaving. The TC2 opens up new ways of visualizing and constructing through thread. This residency feels like a natural continuation of that exploration.

Have you had any previous experience with Digital Weaving or Jacquard?

Yes, I had access to a TC1 and TC2 during my BFA at SAIC and I have also done the praxis residency before in 2023

Any goals for the residency you'd like to share?

During this residency, I’m exploring the theme of collage—layering my grandmother’s textile work onto digital images. Her embroidery, often dismissed as domestic or craft-based, carries a quiet strength that I want to bring into focus. By placing her threads into unfamiliar or closed-off spaces, I’m curious to see how those spaces shift—how they soften, open up, or feel newly inhabited. I’m also exploring how her work takes on new meaning through weaving—how, rather than replicating her skill, I can celebrate it by creating something that carries her presence forward in a different form.

Connect with Sabiha via instagram @Sabiha1310, Website: sabihaohadwala.com

Jennifer used led lights in her weavings as weft! So cool. We loved how you matched your outfit to the weaving of the day.

Weaving on: Collin
Joining us from: Ann Arbor, MI

Tell us about yourself and what led you to the residency?

I’m a fiber artist from Ann Arbor Michigan and I’ve been weaving for many years now. I attended Eastern Michigan University and earned a bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a textile concentration in 2002. After graduating I continued at EMU taking classes in Textiles/Fiber Arts. During that time Eastern acquired a TC-1 loom and I learned how to create files in JacqCAD as well as Photoshop for weaving and wove on the loom there. 
Over the years I’ve continued to weaving on several different TC-1 and T-2 looms through various workshops or arrangements with other weavers who own TC-1/TC-2 looms.

Have you had any previous experience with Digital Weaving or Jacquard?

Yes

Any goals for the residency you'd like to share?

I had planned several projects but I knew there wouldn’t be time to weave all of them.  I wove two larger pieces using multi shuttle weave structures that were more time consuming as well as two single shuttle pieces. I was really excited about how they came out and left with lots of new ideas for future projects!


Connect with Jennifer through these guilds:  Ann Arbor Fiber Arts Guild, Michigan League of Handweavers, Weavers of Orlando, Florida Tropical Weavers Guild and Complex Weavers ​

Xingyi we loved seeing all the texture and color in your weavings. It was so fun to see your outfits made in the studio :)

Weaving on: Collin
Joining us from: Chicago

Tell us about yourself and what led you to the residency?

I work primarily with handmade paper and weave on a TC2 Jacquard loom. My imagery draws from diverse sources—textile history, the language of materials, and instructional diagrams like 'how to tie a knot.' After a year-long hiatus from my art practice, I’m thrilled to return to weaving, experimenting with different warp materials and exploring the possibilities of the grid.

Have you had any previous experience with Digital Weaving or Jacquard?

I first used a TC2 loom during school—it wasn’t love at first sight, but over time, I came to appreciate its unique blend of structural engineering and infinite potential of weaving.

Any goals for the residency you'd like to share?

I’m developing new work for upcoming exhibitions, and for the first time, I’m experimenting with colored warp—excited to embrace the unexpected directions it might take.


Connect with Xingyi via instagram @@dedetcan, website: https://www.xingyizhao.com/

Kendall had a beautiful Madder dyed cotton and wool warp! The double weave turned out amazing :)

Weaving on: Lou
Joining us from: Chicago

Tell us about yourself and what led you to the residency?

I'm a long time weaver, and am excited to try out a different style.

Have you had any previous experience with Digital Weaving or Jacquard?

Its my first time getting to weave on a TC2 

Any goals for the residency you'd like to share?

To weave lots of double weave samples.


Connect with Kendall via instagram @uncomfortable_online ​

Jackie it was so great to have you back! 

Weaving on: Collin
Joining us from: Charlotte, North Carolina​

Tell us about yourself and what led you to the residency?

I am a multidisciplinary visual artist from Melbourne, Australia (Naarm).  I am thrilled to be making new artwork at Praxis and reconnecting with such a great organization. I work across digital fabrication, textiles, photogrammetry, moving image and public engagement. I am interested in the relationship between simulated environments and lived experience and focus upon contemporary perception, publicly contested space and empathy. At Praxis I am experimenting weaving 3-dimensional objects and spaces. This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. 

Have you had any previous experience with Digital Weaving or Jacquard?

I have some previous experience with the TC2. I also undertook online coursework with Cathryn at Praxis which has been really helpful.     

Any goals for the residency you'd like to share?

My cunning plan is to create large multi-colour artworks for exhibition which  experiment with weaving 3-dimensional objects and spaces while honing new skills.  The particular TC2 I am using gives me the unique opportunity to to realise works of substantial scale.  I am excited weaving and I can come up with great imaginative projects but I easily gloss over the hours of labour and patience required in execution. One work is nearly 8000 pics with 4 colours that can go awry which is going to be quite the task. 


Connect with Jackie via instagram @jacqueline_felstead [email protected]​ 

Karina, your yardage was beautiful! We loved seeing the new structures you created  :)

Weaving on: Lou
Joining us from: Charlotte, North Carolina​

Tell us about yourself and what led you to the residency?

Almost 3 years ago, I started working as an upholstery fabric designer. I love weave structure, and getting to design jacquard-woven fabrics daily has been a wonderful learning experience and very gratifying. 

But, I’ve been yearning to apply my jacquard design skill set to my own weaving practice! This residency will be an opportunity to experiment with structure, fiber, color, and pattern in a way I’m not able to either at work or at home on my 8-harness dobby loom.

Have you had any previous experience with Digital Weaving or Jacquard?

At work, I design jacquard-woven fabric daily, though the mill our studio designs for does all the weaving. My experience hand weaving on a Jacquard loom has been more limited; while I was pursuing my MFA in Fibers I wove on SCAD’s previous Jacquard loom before they acquired a TC2, and I took Praxis’ one-week TC2 introductory class. 

Any goals for the residency you'd like to share?

I’d like to explore the patterns I’ve brought with me, changing and tweaking them until they reach a point of resolution. As I weave, I hope the work will inspire me to design another pattern that I can weave before the residency comes to an end. We’ll see where the weaving takes me… 


Connect with Karins via instagram @karinarosenstein ​

Darden, it was great to see your images come to life. Thank you for chatting with the staff and members it was fun to have you here :)

Weaving on: Lou
Joining us from: Dayton, OH

Tell us about yourself and what led you to the residency?

I am a tapestry weaver, felter and lover of all things fiber related.  I came to Praxis to take a split-shed weaving workshop with Deb Silver.  And at that workshop, I saw someone weaving on the TC2 and was captivated.  It took another few years before I could make my way back to explore the TC2 in an Introductory workshop with Cathryn Amidei in Jan 2024.  I found myself fascinated by the complex weaves structures possible -- and intimidated, too.  That experience, and tension, sparked my interest!

Have you had any previous experience with Digital Weaving or Jacquard?

An introductory workshop at Praxis with Cathryn in January 2024.

Any goals for the residency you'd like to share?

My biggest goal for the residency is to learn more as I explore the TC2 loom.  I feel like I am just beginning to conceive of the possibilities weaving on the TC2 holds.  A secondary goal is to weave works from my current series which explores grief and loss through the juxtaposition of geographic maps, text, and photographs.   


Connect with Darden via instagram @dardenbradshaw; email [email protected] 

Olive, you had the most beautiful painted warp. It was exciting seeing the colors blend together. 

Weaving on: Lou
Joining us from: Chicago

Tell us about yourself and what led you to the residency?

I am a multidisciplinary visual artist whose studio practice encompasses weaving, dyeing, spinning yarn, drawing, glass making and mixed media sculpture and installation.  My studio research efforts focus on the study of Jewish ideas and texts related to mysticism, creation, cosmology and divinity. Weaving is a practice that connects me to the infinite and I often return to abstraction as a means to explore the mysterious and the unknown within Jewish thought. I create objects with intentionality and care and present them as questions rather than prescriptions or lessons. 

Have you had any previous experience with Digital Weaving or Jacquard?

I have been a weaver since 2017 and have made work on tapestry looms and floor looms but was never able to access a TC2 loom until I traveled to Praxis to take the Intro to TC2 Loom Class in June of 2024. Since then, I have taken Digital Weaving File Design Classes online in preparation for the residency. Formally, I am interested in Jewish art historical traditions that links intricacy and beauty to the infinite and I am excited to understand more how the TC2 can be a part of these ongoing investigations within my practice as an artist. 

Any goals for the residency you'd like to share?

- make a painted warp, practice dressing and warping a TC2 
-to practice making and executing digital weaving files
- to weave with silk and paper and to gain confidence and ability wielding these materials 
- to weave 12 yards of pen drawings translated into weavings. The drawings are inspired by my research into the ancient Jewish mystical text, Sefer Yetzirah (Book of Creation). The drawings reflect the poetic notion of "inscriptions of the void" discussed in the text- ineffable and paradoxical voids (that are both physical and immaterial) through which creative energy flows.


Connect with Olive via instagram @floatyplace, website: www.olivestefanski.com, [email protected]

Michele, we loved your enthusiastic energy in the studio. Your supplemental warp experiments were exciting!

Weaving on: Lou
Joining us from: Toronto, Canada

Tell us about yourself and what led you to the residency?

I am a graphic designer and artist with a love for textiles, fibre and textures. In 2023 I learned how to use the TC2 and since then it has been my main focus and fundamental to my practice.

Have you had any previous experience with Digital Weaving or Jacquard?

In 2023 I took my first Weave File Design courses with Cathryn Amidei, and then had the opportunity to attend in person workshops at Praxis DWL. In Toronto we had public access to a TC2 at Artscape Launchpad, where I was able to practice and gain more hands on experience.  Unfortunately this was lost, when Artscape went into receivership in September of that year.

Any goals for the residency you'd like to share?

I hope to dive deeper and expand on the work I started here at Praxis DWL last year, when I attended the residency for the first time. Looking forward to experimenting with new fibers and materials, and to connecting with the community here.

Connect with Michele via instagram @michele_guevara, Website: micheleguevara.ca

Laura it was great to have you here as a resident! You shocked us all with how fast you went through all 12 yards.

Weaving on: Lou
Joining us from: Eastern Pennsylvania

Tell us about yourself and what led you to the residency?

I’m a textile obsessive. I weave, sew, dye. I thought the TC2 would be a quick way to get some art weaving done. Haha! The learning curve was greater than I blithely expected but I’m hooked. 

Have you had any previous experience with Digital Weaving or Jacquard?

No

Any goals for the residency you'd like to share?

I have a series of images inspired by tree bark that I want to work on. 

Connect with Laura via instagram @Laurawomack, @oakandlaurelstudio and www.oaklaurelstudio.com