“Watching You Watch Me,” 2024, handwoven cotton, dyed jute, powder coated steel, found bricks, 80 x 36 x 24 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Teaching Artist Cohort
2025
Kit Parks is a Detroit-based artist and owner of Spool & Dye Works, a handweaving studio and fiber art education center. Integrating woven, stitched, and dyed cloth with sculptural elements, Parks questions surveillance technology and the fluid space between private and public with a surreal softness. Building upon symbolism and folklore from their Armenian culture, they often incorporate protective motifs in their work, creating intimate installations that explore how patterns and craft traditions can continue to offer protection in today’s hyper-surveilled world.
Parks holds a BFA from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. They have exhibited regionally and internationally including at the Stamelos Gallery Center at University of Michigan Dearborn, the Valade Family Gallery at the College for Creative Studies, and Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. Their work was featured in Grand Circus Magazine, The Architect’s Newspaper, Clearline Magazine, and the essay collection Object-Oriented Feminism.
Selected works
“Watching You Watch Me,” 2024, handwoven cotton, dyed jute, powder coated steel, found bricks, 80 x 36 x 24 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Open Air,” 2024,resist-dyed silk and quilting cotton, handspun wool, aluminum, wooden dowel, 47 x 31 x 3 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Slow Shutter (a whisper in the window),” 2024,resist-dyed, painted, and pieced cotton, silk organza, plastic beads, felt, chain, 39 x 36 x 1 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Smolder from the series Road Signs,” 2021, rust-dyed cotton and silk, steel, 60 x 58 x 170 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Sky Sign from the series Road Signs,” 2021,indigo-dyed cotton and silk, steel, 72 x 44 x 20 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Can’t Get You Off My Mind,” 2021, dyed and woven cotton, steel, 44 x 24 x 1 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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