2026 Residents
Rachel Snack is textile artist and educator based in Philadelphia. Her woven work forms a tactile language of place; a dialect of memory and material evidence of the human hand. The loom becomes a tool to memorialize sacred space, crafting a link between the body and the intrinsic grid. By pushing the boundaries of the woven grid, she can draw with thread. These ‘drawings’ are part of a ritual to create memory cloth, exploring moments that only linger as remnants. Rachel received her Bachelor of Fine Art in Fiber & Material Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her Master of Science in Textile Design from Philadelphia University. She is also the founder of Weaver House.
Independent
Chad Troyer is a craftsperson working in textiles, specifically weaving, dyeing, and spinning. They attained a BFA in Sculpture and Expanded Media, as well as a BA in French at Kent State University in 2022. They are currently an MFA Candidate at the University of Kentucky. They have served on the Board of Directors of WARP (Weave a Real Peace) since 2024. Chad has shown throughout Ohio including the Massillon Museum and Summit Artspace, in addition to the Erie Art Museum in Erie, PA and Steuben Gallery in New York City, NY. Their work investigates queer identity, and its interlacements through craft traditions and histories.
Independent
Arden Shostak is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Virginia. With a perspective informed by his experience as a trans person, he looks to the natural world for examples of resilience and interdependence. Many of his visual references come from the diverse ecology of his local area. Responding to landscape painting traditions, he works towards the use of the genre to repair and protect the environment, to provoke action towards collective liberation, and to emphasize beauty, spirit, and mystery.
PROJECT-BASED
Bukola Koiki is a Nigerian-born American artist whose work attends to the liminal spaces she inhabits between overlapping immigrant identities and cultures. Her research-based multidisciplinary practice, spanning textiles, printmaking, collage, video, and performance, investigates how materials and methods shape meaning. Employing experimental techniques such as embroidered collagraphs, indigo-dyed paper, and Nigerian hair-threading techniques, she creates visual metaphors that examine Yoruba womanhood, rites of passage, and transnational linguistic phenomena, immigrant ecology, and botanical imperialism, while also reflecting on intergenerational memory. Koiki holds an MFA in Applied Craft + Design from Pacific Northwest College of Art. She lives and maintains a studio practice in Maine.
WEAVING 101
Rees Quinn Walker is a ceramic and fiber artist from Seattle, Washington. Her work investigates how objects act as vessels of communication. By referencing and manipulating fabric, she explores gesture and movement—capturing moments held in suspension—while considering the ways textiles can both reveal and conceal. Her practice explores the possibility of alternative forms of communication when language fails: an invitation to dream differently, imagine otherwise, and connect more deeply with the world around us.
WEAVING 101
WEAVING 101Mylène Parisot
Mylène Parisot is a Paris-based artist and curator. Her practice takes a multidisciplinary approach, from quilting to metalwork as well as tattoo, exploring themes of folklore, devotion and dreams. She is joining the learning 101 residency at Tabby to learn weaving and integrate it to her practice.
Husnaa Hashim is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, educator, and student herbalist from Philadelphia now based in central North Carolina. Her work engages themes of transnationalism, matrilineality, and Black feminist theory. Her fiber arts practice includes knitting and sewing, and she’s excited to learn how to spin and weave.
WEAVING 101
Mitchell Burleson is a southern artist with an interdisciplinary approach to weaving. His practice seeks to abstract the process of weaving in order to understand his connection to craft, family and culture. After receiving his BS in fashion and textile design from NC State University, Burleson continued his education at Haywood Community College, receiving an AAS in professional craft under Amy Putansu. Burleson is based in Lexington, KY pursuing his MFA in studio art at the University of Kentucky. Burleson was the 2025 winner of the Artfields Competition and Festival and has shown at the Mint Museum, The Folk Art Center, Artspace, and has upcoming exhibitions at the Living Arts and Science Center and Bolivar Gallery in Lexington.
INDEPENDENT
Nancy and Kathleen Quaintance are a mother-daughter pair of craft collaborators from North Carolina who work as a team to design, warp and weave all kinds of cloth. Their work spans all varieties of textile construction and embellishment, with particular focus on weaving and dyeing (Kathleen’s passion) and garment making and stitching (Nancy’s forte.) Outside of textiles, they enjoy sharing procedural knowledge with others — Nancy as a chef, and Kathleen as a teacher. They are currently working on a project inspired by a coverlet passed down in the family, drawing on the intergenerational lineages of textile work which their collaboration exemplifies.
INDEPENDENTNancy + Kathleen Quaintance
Anthe Schmidt is an Atlanta-based textile artist and educator with a primary focus in weaving, embroidery, and beadwork. Their work blends fantasy with questions of invasiveness, the environment, and our place within it. They have a specific interest in working with foraged materials, both from the natural and manmade worlds. They received their BFA in Textiles from Georgia State University.
PROJECT-BASED
Kayla Hall is a printmaker and educator from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Working across print/papermaking, weaving, and writing, Hall explores personhood as a layered and relational condition. Her practice considers Black materiality as a site of care, kinship, and refusal, attending to how humanity persists amid histories of fragmentation and erasure. Hall holds an MFA from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia (2025) and a BFA from Louisiana State University (2023). She has exhibited and held residencies nationally and internationally, including at Box 13 ArtSpace, Creative Arts Workshop, and Dane Ledet Gallery. She is the recipient of the 2025 Abaraka Award from the San Antonio Ethnic Art Society and the Holly Jordan Fellowship at the InCahoots Residency.
INDEPENDENTKayla Hall
Catie Poneck is an artist and craftsperson living and working in Washington D.C. Receiving her BFA in Painting with a double minor in Creative Writing and Art History from Pratt Institute in 2023, Catie is now working on her MA in Cultural Heritage Management from Johns Hopkins University. An amateur crocheter and knitter, but with a passion for traditional craft, natural materials, a love of Madeline Miller’s novel Circe, and a special appreciation for “Women’s Work,” Catie is beyond excited to try her hand at that ancient—and yet living—practice of weaving.
WEAVING 101Catie Poneck
Meghan is a multidisciplinary artist based near Asheville, North Carolina since 2010. Her creative practice with metal began in high school and continued through college, where she earned a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After a long break from art making, enduring the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in 2024 encouraged her to reevaluate priorities and take real action towards her dreams; in 2026 she established her first studio at Lamplight Studios in West Asheville to further develop her practice in metalsmithing, weaving, and cyanotype printing. As a lover of outdoor exploration and adventure, Meghan is continually inspired by time spent in nature. By fabricating, casting and incorporating botanical forms and found objects in her art, she honors and give permanence to these plants, birds, bugs and animals.
PROJECT-BASED
Sean Matthews is a Brooklyn based artist and weaver interested in the transition from digital to textile and understanding the parallels between weaving and technology. Through using family photos and screenshots of his Roblox avatar as reference, he explores weaving as a means to “upload” image to his own personal database that exists somewhere in between the digital realm and the physical world.
INDEPENDENTSean Matthews
Marina G. Cano is a fiber artist from El Paso, Texas, with a MFA in Visual studies from the University of Missouri in Columbia focusing on weaving and sculpture. Cano’s work is guided by personal experiences as a mixed Mexican and American woman living in and out of the U.S Southwest Mexico Border. Cano highlights religious icons, sentimental objects, and raw materials to create a personal narrative that speaks to the amalgamation of religious and bi-cultural aesthetics within the borderland region. Her work has been featured in the Greater Denton Arts Council’s 37th annual Materials: Hard + Soft International Contemporary Craft Competition and published in the Surface Design Journal Magazine.
INDEPENDENT