Clare's profile
Clare Nicholls (she/her) is a weaver, lace maker, and poet exploring textiles as texts. Her artistic research examines oral and written traditions of craft historiography. She is interested in how craft is a system of knowledge passed from person to person and via written texts. She earned an MFA in Fiber & Materials Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2022. Previously, she obtained a BA in Art and Art History from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2010, and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from MICA in 2013. Her work has been exhibited up nationally, most recently at Axis Gallery in Sacramento, CA. Clare teaches weaving in formal and informal contexts, most recently in the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and Montgomery College in Silver Spring, Maryland. She recently completed a Digital Weaving Residency at Praxis Fiber Workshop in Cleveland, Ohio, in which she wove large-scale Jacquard weavings about screens and the internet. She lives and works between Baltimore and Washington, DC.
