Etta’s practice expertise brings inventiveness to processes of handweaving that have been in use for centuries. Combining drawing, sculpting, and weaving, Etta creates playful objects that demonstrate the expansive structural possibilities of weaving on hand looms.
Bio: Etta Sandry is an artist, educator, and facilitator from the midwestern United States, currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her material-focused research is rooted in fibre and weaving and spans media through sculpture, writing, and installation. Etta completed her MFA in the Fibre & Material Practices program at Concordia University in the spring of 2021. She has exhibited her work in the United States and Canada and was the 2022 Experimental Weaver in Residence at the Unstable Design Lab in Boulder, Colorado. This talk will present her work as well as the outcomes from the residency.