Art, design, research, craft, and activism intersect in our Textiles program. As you learn about making processes, you’ll develop a conceptual practice that addresses issues like gender, environmentalism, identity, and racism.
Textiles Studios
Media Gallery
About BFA Textiles
Studios for thinking and making
🧶 About BFA Textiles
Textiles are one of the oldest aesthetic traditions in the world, but we stay contemporary in theory and practice. You’ll be intellectually engaged in our technical and topical studios, which introduce you to various textile construction methods like dyeing, weaving, printing, and sewing. Our program has an interdisciplinary approach, too, meaning you’re encouraged to expand textile making into other fields like film, fashion, animation, poetry, and writing.
🛠️ Studios for thinking and making
Get experimental in our new textiles studios, which include open space, high ceilings, natural light, and plenty of equipment. You can silkscreen allover patterns on a 10-yard table, program weavings on computer-operated dobby looms, or create natural dip-dyes from local plants. Student Oscar A. Ramirez created hand-woven sculptures on a Jacquard loom, which took him 16 hours straight!
Weaving Studio
The Weaving Studio is outfitted with 30 floor looms, including an AVL 16-harness computer-operated dobby loom and two computer-operated TC2 Jacquard looms. We’re one of only a handful of art colleges in the United States that teaches digital weaving.
Dye lab
The Dye Lab includes a large-scale light exposure table for silkscreens as well as gas stoves for use with chemical and natural dyes, a closed-ventilation system for dye mixing, and a washout sink.
