Kira Dominguez Hultgren

It's so good to be home! If you're near Berkeley tonight, come say hi at the closing reception for 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵 @120710.art . It's a new gallery on 10th street behind Tokyo Fish Market - my favorite childhood grocery store! Aptly, this piece called "Stay in Your Lane," uses seaweed bioplastics! Closing reception tonight, Saturday April 13th, from 4-8pm. Material Instinct is a group exhibition and material feast for bay area artists! Curated by @makikoharris and @rebecca___kaufman ❤️🔥 I can't wait to finally see this show!! Artists: @amyellingsonartist @idontkissartell @beccabarolli @dani___lopez___ @erinzhaoart @hollywongart @kacy_jung @katieleighcurry @studiokieu @kiradominguezhultgren @luluthrowerstudio @makikoharris @mel_prest_k @michellemansourstudio @m_yimartin @thebabamook @rachelle_reichert @rebecca___kaufman @rebekahgoldstein @sharamays @steph_kudisch @squishystone Photos by @i.am.kat.lin from the opening reception. Thank you for these images!! 😊 See you tonight!

Together with fifty amazing artists this year, I was named a 2024 @unitedstatesartists Fellow! I can’t begin to tell you how honored I am except to say THANK YOU to family, teachers, friends, and mentors who have walked with me through the years. An award like this doesn’t happen without a community of love and support. From the press release: USA Fellows are selected based on their groundbreaking artistic visions, unique perspectives within their fields, and evident potential for the award to make a significant impact in their practices and lives…This year's 50 awardees, a group of artists and collectives spanning 10 disciplines, are inspired by a wide variety of approaches and experiences, each engaging us in a collective responsibility to imagine and invest in our future. My favorite line from the press release about the awardees: “…honoring their rich contributions to the cultural fabric of the country.” I only wish my grandparents could have heard this. I'm so grateful my parents, aunts, and uncles will. This award is for you and the fabric you wove that I now get to weave into. Photo credit: Courtesy of United States Artists. #kiradominguezhultgren #unitedstatesartists #usafellows #contemporarycraft #culturalfabric #weavingart

Last week to support Ruth’s Table and SCRAP! Show closes Thursday! I’m lucky enough to be part of an incredible group of like 20 artists in this show who are all donating work to benefit these organizations! Viewing room linked below. Closing party (free!) on Nov. 30th from 5:30-7:30pm Ruth’s Table 3160 21st Street San Francisco, CA 94110 (Between Mission and Capp) /viewing-room/21-intertwined-a-collaborative-exhibition-between-scrap-ruth-s/ Ruth's Table is of course named for Ruth Asawa (it's her table where all the magic of this place happens). And as loose associations go, I got to see the Ruth Asawa exhibit at the Whitney this past week. It’s incredible to see the way Asawa transformed pattern across 2D and 3D media (my fave: Untitled: center tied, six-branched form, galvanized wire, 1963). Thanks to @sfurbanwanderer and @ruthstablesf for these pics!

Desert dust murmurations, Desert dust collaborations, A summoning of kin and ancestral spirits in the dustways between San Angelo, Texas and Chihuahua, Mexico Flying with deserts that raised me; flying with dust that raises them In the land of flying misssnakes, I stole Lupe’s string bikini 2023 Linen, nylon, and bioplastics; stretcher bars, clips, and bells 159” x 216” x 8” (dimensions variable) Image credit: Sarah Vasquez From the press release: Ballroom Marfa presents unFlagging: Futures. This year-long, outdoor exhibition features a series of commissioned flags from four artists displayed in Ballroom’s facade. Each artist examines the flag as a symbol of liberty, power, and identity through an eco-feminist lens. With their flag, In the land of flying misssnakes, I stole Lupe’s string bikini, artist Kira Dominguez Hultgren reckons with environmental devastation and the impact of the fast fashion industry on the environment. Weaving natural and artificial materials together on the loom, Dominguez Hultgren’s piece mimics a bird about to take flight. With this work she asks, can we coexist peacefully, and respectfully with the natural world? The artist considers this flag “a collaboration with the Marfa desert, using materials that are not made to withstand or work against the desert, but remain open to however the desert wants to respond to this flag-staking.” Our future is in the hands of this present moment. Dominguez Hultgren reminds us of the need to coexist with all the elements. Kira Dominguez Hultgren’s flag is on view at Ballroom Marfa from September 25, 2023–January 4, 2024. /program/unflagging/ Thank you to @alexann.susholtz and @ballroommarfa for this amazing opportunity and exhibition!! #flags #ballroommarfa #marfa #textilesculpture #desertdust

I’ve been spending the summer at the Basque BioDesign Center in the misty mountains of Bilbao, Spain, getting lost in weave structures, idiomas, and cultural composites. Images and text reposted from @basquebiodesigncenter . Thanks Maria! :) 🌿💡Kira Dominguez gana la beca de la residencia Bilbe | Digital Loom
@kiradominguezhultgren es una artista, tejedora y profesora afincada en Estados Unidos. Nos cuenta que ha venido al Basque BioDesign Center para experimentar con el tejido de biomateriales en el telar jacquard digital. Durante la residencia, investiga sobre los tipos de hilos que se pueden crear a partir de cultivos de kombucha, algas, compuestos de goma de celulosa de madera y subproductos de lana de oveja Latxa.

Dominguez Hultgren quiere conectar este nuevo proyecto con lo que lleva haciendo mucho tiempo en su trabajo: "pensar en compuestos y subproductos culturales. ¿Cómo coexisten las culturas? ¿Qué ocurre entre las generaciones cuando las culturas trabajan juntas y se niegan a adaptarse a entornos distintos? Espero que este verano las piezas que estoy tejiendo conecten una conversación tanto social como medioambiental para pensar en formas alternativas de pertenencia y unión".
 ------- 🌿💡Kira Dominguez wins Bilbe | Digital Loom residency grant.
@kiradominguezhultgren is an artist, weaver and teacher based in the United States. She tells us that she has come to the Basque BioDesign Center to experiment with weaving biomaterials on the digital jacquard loom. During the residency, she is researching the types of yarns that can be created from kombucha cultures, algae, wood cellulose gum composites and Latxa sheep wool by-products.

Dominguez Hultgren wants to connect this new project to what she has been doing for a long time in her work: "thinking about cultural composites and by-products, how do cultures coexist, what happens between generations when cultures work together and refuse to adapt to different environments? I hope that this summer the pieces I am weaving will connect a conversation both socially and environmentally to think about alternative forms of belonging and togetherness". 
#jacquardweaving #artresidency

Install shots from the Philadelphia Art Alliance! If you’re near Philly this weekend, come do a final walkthrough of the show with me on Sunday from 12pm-1pm. Ariadne’s Thread On view through May 27 https://www.uarts.edu/gallery/ariadnes-thread Thank you, Sid Sachs for curating, Michael Ciervo for installing, and Joseph Hu for these images! @philartalliance @universityofthearts #philadelphiaart

The work is crawling up and taking over three rooms at the Philadelphia Art Alliance! In the other rooms…it’s a textile artist takeover! Housemates include: Margo Wolowiec @margowa Sophie Stone @sosophiestone Caroline Achaintre @caroline_achaintre Ariadne’s Thread, curated by Sid Sachs @philartalliance Opening Reception tomorrow, Friday, April 14th from 5-7:30pm https://www.uarts.edu/gallery/ariadnes-thread Sadly, I can’t come to the opening, but if you're in Philly Memorial Day weekend, let me know. I'm doing a walk-through on Sunday, May 28th, the day after the exhibition closes to the public. @universityofthearts @weaverhouseco #philadelphiaart

Talking identities-in-practice, Chicanx weaving, and rasquache craft at American Tapestry Alliance Tuesday evening 7:30pm ET. There’s a link to register toward the bottom of the page: /speakers-series/ Suggested reading? Check out LJ Robert’s essay on craft through the lens of queer theory: “Put Your Thing Down, Flip it, and Reverse It.” ljroberts.net

It’s always a good day to wake up and find my work is living it up with Windy Chien’s, Jacqueline Surdell’s, and Katrina Sánchez’s for the next few months at the Museum of Art and Sciences in Daytona Beach, FL @moasdaytona If you’re trying to escape the freezing weather, go see the show! A Beautiful Mess: Weavers & Knotters of the Vanguard is curated by Emilee Enders from the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek and is up until February 5th @bedfordgallery Artists in the show include: @windychien @jacquelinesurdell @fiberess @kirstenhassenfeld @dana_t_h @meghanshimek @lisasolomon @dani___lopez___ @hannahpmode @liz_robb #beautifulmess #contemporarycraft #fiberart #wallsculpture

Follow the String @MarinMOCA (/) October 29 – December 23, 2022 Two works on views: Made in Mexico; XicanX and the Second(hand)-generation and Horizon Lines Thank you to Hannah Waiters (@waiter2z ) for sending me pictures and the folks at MarinMOCA and NIAD Art Center (@niadartcenter ) for curating! If any more dearly missed Bay Area folks go to the show, please send me images! I’m so sad to miss this one. Upcoming Programming: Cedars Textile Art Collaborative artist Teresa Pardella (@tpardella ) is doing a handloom weaving demo on Dec. 7th from 11-12:30pm. Indira Allegra (@indiraallegra )
will do a workshop, “Holds: Choreographies of Acceptance” – date/time TBD! From the Press Release: Follow the String is an exhibition developed in partnership with Cedars and NIAD Art Center, two Bay Area based progressive studio programs for adults with developmental disabilities. Curated by NIAD’s Emma Spertus and Julio Rodriguez with NIAD artists Felicia Griffin, Dorian Reid, and Kiesha White, the exhibition features artists from Cedars and NIAD, alongside artists from the broader Bay Area arts community. Follow the String showcases conventionally trained artists alongside artists with disabilities, blurring distinctions between "insider" and "outsider" art. A workshop will bring together participating artists to create a new fiber-based work for the exhibition. Checkout these artists – go see the show! Zarouhie Abdalian @indiraallegra 
 @miguel.arzabe 
 Andy Buckwald
 Glenna Cooper Jean Coury
 @chrisduncanartandsounds Sylvia Fragoso
 Doonna Gilberti
 Felicia Griffin
 @kiradominguezhultgren 
 Darren Hunter Josie Juantorena
 @beth.krebs.studio @corazaaa Gail LeFevre
 Donzell Lewis
 @mcjeanmcelvane Caitlin McKee
 Sheri McSweeney
 @ramekon O'Arwisters
 Anna Price
 Maria Radilla
 Cody Rahn
 Dorian Reid
 @carlotarodriguez391 
 Kim Summers
 Kiesha White
 Susan Wise #followthestring #niadartcenter #marinmoca #insiderart #outsiderart #handweaving

There was no way I was making a calla lily vulva in 2022 without both pinning it to the wall and offering it some protection. Kevlar lines the inside of this piece, shredded in the weaving process, torn on the loom by the mohair and silk in the warp. It was an impulsive decision made in the whiplash of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions. To Carry Every Name but Your Own 92” x 59”x 38” (dimensions variable) Handspun ropes in sisal, silk, bullet-proof and stab-proof Kevlar; warped in wool, acrylic, cotton, linen, silk; loom bars; zip ties 2022 While Mrinalini Mukherjee’s fiber sculptures and deities from the 1970s-90s are influencing the folds and droops in this piece, and Punjabi phulkari and Mexican serape blankets are influencing the color choices, I was particularly interested in seeing the ways my own weaving practice is born out of a history of U.S. contemporary fiber arts and feminist Chicana writing. Last day to see the show @eleanor_harwood_gallery ! Photos courtesy of @shaun.roberts.photo #callalily #vulvaart #fiberartist #woven #wovenwallhanging

Thank you @amydiplacido for creating this beautiful reel of my show @eleanor_harwood_gallery . Last two days to see it! Closes Saturday, Oct 22nd.