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
PROJECT-BASEDArden 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.
WEAVING 101Rees 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 101Bukola 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 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.
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