“Limitation Of Instinct,” 2024, woven cotton and acrylic yarns, 18 × 24 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Kimberly English
Teaching Artist Cohort
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2026
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 as a Carolina Digital Humanities Fellow in 2018. Kimberly has been awarded residencies at the McColl Center, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Penland School of Craft, Berea College, and the Gibbes Museum. Her work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Burnaway, and Design Milk.
English’s fiber-based practice utilizes weaving as a tool to examine how American individualism shapes understandings of identity, labor, and belonging. Working across analog and digital technologies, her work blends narrative and abstraction to probe the space between what is inherited and what can be remade, using cloth to examine how individual and collective experiences are constructed, strained, and reshaped.
Her work has been exhibited widely and internationally, with recent exhibitions 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 was the 2024–25 Emerging Artist Fellow in Fiber at Virginia Commonwealth University and runs a weaving residency, Tabby Studio, from the shared studio space on her property in Canton, North Carolina.
Selected works
“Through Which To Catch,” 2024, woven cotton and wool yarns, cherry wood from the artist’s father’s woodshop, flagging tape, un-plied construction twine from his truck, wooden pegs, wooden beads, and various yarns, 30 × 73 × 4 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Come Hell Or High Water,” 2025, handwoven cotton and linen, western North Carolina clay beads and dirt (made in collaboration with Melissa Weiss), 48 × 48 × 86 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Heirloom,” 2024, woven cotton and wool, 18 × 24 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Lockstep,” 2024, woven cotton and acrylic yarns, 18 × 24 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Lee's Surrender,” 2024, woven cotton, 90 × 100 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“From Which To Build,” 2025, handwoven and hand-dyed cotton and linen, linen backing, 34.5 × 50.5 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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