Kate Nartker

An older test with brushed wool. 🌹

What happens when a woven textile becomes an animation? Step inside the “Video Craft” exhibition with artist Kate Nartker (@knart ). Kate shares the story behind “Green Screen”, 2025, a work that combines a 17-foot jacquard weaving with an animation created directly from its patterns. By scanning the woven textile and transforming it frame by frame, she reveals how weaving structures can behave like moving images. She was drawn to overshot weaving, a technique where repeating pattern units build the illusion of a continuous design. In the animation, these structures echo the glitches and scanning lines of VHS video, highlighting an unexpected technological link between looms and screens. Kate’s work sits at the intersection of animation and textile design, exploring how images, narratives, and materials can be dismantled and reassembled across media. ✨ Visit the exhibition to experience “Green Screen” and other works that blur the line between moving-image media and traditional crafts. 🔗 Link in bio to get your tickets and plan your visit!

Thank you all for joining the “Video Craft” Artist Talk and celebrating the opening day with us! Special thanks to the participating artists, Kelly Egan @kellymonster , Kira Dominguez Hultgren @kiradominguezhultgren , and Kate Nartker @knart , as well as the curators, Sarah Mills @sarahvmills , and Ariel Zaccheo @voodhu , who joined the panel.⁠ ⁠ What happens when the moving image meets the handmade? In “Video Craft” film and digital technologies enter into dialogue with craft media such as ceramics, textiles, and glass, inviting viewers to reconsider time, materiality, process, and perception.⁠ ⁠ Featuring 19 artists at different stages of their careers, the exhibition brings together early pioneers of video production and emerging digital natives. “Video Craft” reveals an unexpected partnership between the deeply embodied practices of craft and the ephemeral nature of the screen.⁠ ⁠ Learn more about “Video Craft”, now on view through August 16 at MCD, and get your tickets now through the link in bio!⁠ ⁠ [Image Description: Photo carousel featuring participating artists, curators, and attendees from the “Video Craft” Artist Talk.]⁠

So surprised and honored to learn that Whose Woods Are These received a Jury Honorable Mention for Best Experimental Short at @slamdancegroup ! I’m grateful to have screened alongside so many incredible films. 🥺

What happens when video meets craft? Find out how artists are reimagining screen-based technologies through the lens of craft at our Opening Day Artist Talk for “Video Craft” on Saturday, February 28, 1:30–3:00 PM. Hear directly from the curators Sarah Mills, and Ariel Zaccheo in conversation with exhibiting artists about what’s behind the work. Meet the artists who will join the Artist Talk: ▪️Kate Nartker (@knart ) Works in animation and weaving to dismantle images, narratives, and material structures. Her work has been included in exhibitions and screenings in The Contemporary Austin, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and the Hordaland Art Center in Bergen, Norway, among others. ▪️Kelly Egan (@kellymonster ) Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at Trent University. Her work focuses on materiality and obsolescence, looking beyond hierarchical, canonical, and linear histories to probe new potentials for dead media. Her award-winning experimental films have exhibited extensively at festivals/venues including the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Images Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, among others. ▪️Kira Dominguez Hultgren (@kiradominguezhultgren ) Chicago-based weaver and educator. Their research interests include material and embodied rhetorics, re-storying material culture, and weaving as a performative critique of the visual. Dominguez Hultgren has exhibited her work broadly, including shows at the Museum of Arts and Design, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Ballroom Marfa, among others. Their public art projects include installations with the city of Berkeley, the city of Phoenix, and a recent installation at Stanford University’s Institute for Advancing Just Societies. Just one week to go! Tickets are limited, so secure yours now through the link in our bio.

Discover the ideas behind "Video Craft" at a special Opening Day Artist Talk on Saturday, February 28, 1:30–3:00 PM.⁠ “Video Craft” Curators Ariel Zaccheo and Sarah Mills will be in conversation with exhibiting artists Kate Nartker, Kelly Egan, and Kira Dominguez Hultgren, sharing behind-the-scenes insights into the ideas and processes shaping the exhibition. Moving between weaving, sculpture, digital media, and video, the artists explore what happens when hand-based craft meets the moving image. Tickets include museum admission. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to explore the exhibition. The panel begins at 1:30 PM, with additional time to view “Video Craft” following the discussion. Limited seating is available. Get your tickets now via the link in bio!⁠⁠ *Elements designed by Freepik are used in some of the visual identity and marketing media for the Video Craft exhibit.

Finally getting around to posting my animation and some images from my show at @_anchorlight_ this fall. Thank you to @sallyvangorder for the beautiful installation photos !

Excited to share that my 17-foot weaving + animation, Green Screen, will be part of Video Craft exhibition at the Museum of Craft and Design @museumofcraftanddesign curated by Sarah Mills and Ariel Zaccheo. 💫 Feeling grateful to be showing alongside so many of my favorite artists. SF friends, please come to the opening on February 28! We haven’t been back since we moved, and I can’t wait to see you all. 😭

Slamdance! My animation will be screening in the Experimental Shorts block on February 21st and 22nd. LA friends, I have some extra tickets if you want to come! 😎🤘

I'll be closing my show at @_anchorlight_ this Saturday with an artist's talk at 3pm. Come on by!

This Saturday is the final day to view Cutting Room by Kate Nartker! The gallery will open at 2:00 and the artist talk will begin at 3:00. No appointment needed. The artist will discuss the links she has made between digital jacquard hand weaving, contemporary animation, and the early days of film production. See you there

London Short Film Festival! 'Whose Woods Are These' will be screening at @icalondon on February 1st. 💚