KIMBERLY ENGLISH •   CANTON, NC

Expanding upon her undergraduate textiles education from Savannah College of Art and Design, Kimberly English (b. 1994) earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Studio Art as a Carolina Digital Humanities Fellow in 2018. Kimberly has been awarded residencies at Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts, Penland School of Craft, and Praxis Digital Weaving Lab. English’s work has been exhibited widely and internationally, recently at the Spartanburg Art Museum, New Bedford Art Museum, the Delaware Contemporary, the Ackland Museum, Vox Populi, CICA Museum, and the Museum of Craft and Design. Kimberly is currently the Emerging Artist Fellow in Fiber at Virginia Commonwealth University and runs a weaving residency, Tabby Studio, out of the shared studio space on her property in Canton, North Carolina.

"My fiber-based practice explores the connection between the individual and the collective through historical, personal, and perceptual interrogations of textile structure. Synthesizing narratives informed by the American South and globalized labor, my practice seeks to explore the nuance of interdependence - real and imagined - between land, machines, people, and the objects they create."