Kate Nartker

2025-26 Artistic Research Fellow

Textiles in Motion: Reimagining Storytelling through Cloth and Cinema

My project explores the intersection of cinema and textiles—looking at how cloth has historically shaped narrative and how its tactile qualities can be translated into animation. I’ll be working with the Folger’s collections to research early modern storytelling and develop a series of woven works, an animated film, and a paper on the cultural role of textiles as a narrative medium.