Kira Dominguez Hultgren

It was SO great to have you back, Kira! Further proof that our community is quite small and interwoven, and no doubt we will see you again soon!
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Weaving on: Lou
Joining us from:  Urbana, Illinois 

Tell us about yourself and what led you to the residency?
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I make large scale fiber sculptures on backstrap, floor looms, and digital jacquard looms. Both enacting and deconstructing immigrant experience, weaving in my studio practice is about contextualizing my family’s narrative of simultaneously performing and disavowing cultural expectations, misrecognitions, and appropriations within larger U.S. and global histories.

I was fortunate enough to speak on some of these issues at the Praxis Digital Weaving Conference last summer. After the conference, I knew I wanted to spend more time with these amazing folx!

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

Yes! Josh Faught and Lia Cook at California College of the Arts were my first teachers on the TC1 loom. Since then, I've had the privilege of setting up two TC2 looms at CCA, weaving on the looms at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and flying to Bilbao, Spain to weave at the Basque BioDesign Center on their TC2 loom.

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

I largely use digital jacquard looms to sample ideas. Often these ideas end up in the final woven composition, usually cut-up and tied into a larger fiber sculpture. Three projects I want to start to build during this residency: the Clitorati Codex, structures for multi-layer weaving with bioplastics, and a few bling-y details that I'm planning to add into a public art installation with the city of Berkeley, CA next month!
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Find Kira on their site at kiradominguezhultgren.com or Instagram @kiradominguezhultgren​