Jessica Pinsky
Executive Director
​(she/her)

Jessica grew up in Akron, Ohio and moved to Cleveland in 2011 after receiving a BFA in Studio Art from New York University in 2006 and an MFA in painting from Boston University in 2009. She began teaching at Cleveland Institute of Art in 2011 and in 2015 founded Praxis Fiber Workshop.
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“It has been a great privilege and honor to bring a new life to the fiber department at CIA and to open Praxis in a city with such welcoming community, kindness, talent and creativity. Thank you to every single person I have met along this journey and to every person who has created art using this precious equipment over the years and so are woven into the rich history of textiles in our region.” 

​www.jessicapinsky.com

Cathryn Amidei
Digital Weaving Director
​(she/her)

Cathryn holds a B.A. in Anthropology/Russian from University of Illinois Chicago and an M.F.A. from Eastern Michigan University and was Associate Professor there for 13 years.

​She has been the Studio Director at the Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina since 2018.
Cathryn has been engaged with Jacquard weaving for 15+ years. She has travelled extensively, studying and teaching on the TC2. She spent a year living in Norway working and walking at Tronrud Engineering Headquarters: the Digital Weaving Norway production facility. She owns a TC2 and provides technical support to Artists and Universities in North America when they purchase the loom and after. She lives in Ann Arbor Michigan and is a member of the WSG Gallery.
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www.cathrynamidei.com

Shametra Rozzel
​Program Manager
​(she/they)

Shametra is a multi-dimensional artist that intersects all aspects of design with various healing modalities of the physical form. Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, immersed in the world of art through both parents, she continued on a creative path by receiving a B.F.A in Fashion Design at Kent State University. There she found the textile studio which sparked a focus on studying the interrelationship of textiles and fashion design. A few years after landing in New York City to work in the fashion industry, she answered the call to learn Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She recently graduated from New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine with a B.P.S. in Health Science and Masters in Acupuncture.

Back here at home, she is eager to navigate the nuances between the ancient healing arts and continued personal art practice of crocheting, dyeing and weaving to approach the community in profound yet therapeutic ways.

Insta: @lattehoney

Romy Anderson​
​Studio Manager
(she/her)

Romy Anderson is a textile artist based out of Northeast Ohio and attended Kent State University obtaining a BFA in Textiles. Romy has always had a love for visual arts, math, and color, weaving being a perfect combination of these passions. Specializing in double weave with painted warps, Romy delves into the fundamental grid created by the loom. Drawing from architecture and travel, her weavings also explore the interaction of color while deconstructing the illusionistic aspect of spaces.

@romyandersonart
romyanderson.com