Creating a Connected Textile Community
EN ESPAÑOL Jessica Elena Aquino es una artista multidisciplinaria chicana de primera generación de Santa Ana, California, cuya práctica abarca la fibra, la escultura y el grabado. Reimagina objetos encontrados, fotografías familiares y artefactos culturales, como las hojas de maíz, en reliquias y recuerdos personales, explorando temas de migración, memoria y conexión con la tierra.
Jessica Elena Aquino is a first-generation Chicanx multidisciplinary artist from Santa Ana, CA, whose practice spans fiber, sculpture, and printmaking. She reimagines found objects, family photographs, and cultural artifacts—such as cornhusks—into personal relics and mementos, exploring themes of migration,
memory, and connection to the land.
Amy Thompson received her B.Sc. from BYU in archaeology and a minor in botany where she also volunteered and worked at the Museum of Peoples and Cultures. Here she discovered that textiles could be a focus of study as she worked with the many collections in the museum. Her current research focuses on fiber, textile testing and sustainability, and creative scholarship.
EN ESPAÑOL Kate Colwell, miembro de WARP desde hace 10 años, fabrica textiles desde su más tierna infancia y ha estado involucrada en el cuidado de la salud durante casi el mismo tiempo. Actualmente jubilada de varias carreras en el área de la salud, Kate se alegra de que la pandemia esté llegando a su fin para poder retomar sus planes de viajar más.
Kate Colwell has been making textiles since early childhood and has been involved with healthcare nearly as long. Currently retired from several healthcare careers, Kate is glad the pandemic is winding down so she can get back to plans for more travel.
Teena Jennings began her professional textile life as a museum conservator. She learned to spin and weave and use natural dyes. Earning a Ph.D. studying culturally relevant textiles, she taught all manner of textile-related courses before retiring six years ago.
Carol Ventura taught ceramics, photography, metalsmithing, and printmaking before becoming Tennessee Technological University’s Art Historian in 1994. She is the author of Maya Hair Sashes Backstrap Woven in Jacaltenango, Guatemala and three books about tapestry crochet.
Linda Temple was a co-founder of WARP more than 30 years ago. In addition to a quarter-century of service to WARP as newsletter editor, Linda has demonstrated WARP’s core values through a lifetime of socially-oriented service.