Interwoven Narratives: Exploring Textiles and Cinema in Creative Practice

Textiles, like cinema, are visual and spatial texts that serve as a sequential record of time. Both mediums are intrinsically given to narrative and whether they are constructed frame by frame or stitch by stitch, they each tell stories through incremental and procedural processes. Her work further demonstrates the value and contributions that a craft-based framework can bring to the fields of film and visual storytelling, giving new ways to approach moving images and visualization.

Kate Nartker works between animation and weaving to dismantle images, narratives, and material structures. She received an MFA from the California College of the Arts and is an Assistant Professor of Textile Design at the Wilson College of Textiles at NC State University. Her work has been included in exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally, including The Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, The Contemporary Austin, and the Hordaland Art Center in Bergen, Norway. She was named a 2023 Fulbright U.S. Scholar and her writing has been published in the Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, and the Surface Design Journal.

This exhibit was paired with Coffee & Viz: Interwoven Narratives: Exploring Textiles and Cinema in Creative Practice.