Jessie Mordine Young is a Brooklyn-based artist who researches, writes about, curates, makes and teaches textile art.

In one of her more recent bodies of work, she embarked on a project of creating daily artworks, which she calls “woven drawings” or “thread sketches.” These smaller woven works are deeply rooted in moments being marked by color. Furthermore, the small scale of these woven works offer a sense of intimacy through its reference to portraiture. These pieces directly connect to her experiences in nature, where color and texture become tangible references to memory.

Jessie is a recent graduate (2021) from the Masters Program in the History of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City. She received her BFA in 2015 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with a dual degree in Art History and Studio Art in Fiber and Material Studies. She is a part-time lecturer/faculty at Parsons School of Design of The New School in NYC..

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“When I approach other textile-based artwork as a weaver, textile scholar, educator, and community creator there is an additional layer of intimacy and empathy that I bring to the conversation. Textile tools and processes transmit experience, skill, and knowledge. A maker must have an intimate and comprehensive understanding of the medium in order to implement these things. The textiles, woven by an artist with these acquired abilities, then become carriers of empathy, memory, and lived experience. Textiles are evidence of humanity.”

-Jessie Mordine Young