CUTTING ROOM by Kate Nartker
November 11, 2025- January 23, 2026
Cutting Room bridges textiles and cinema through jacquard weavings and animation, reimagining the loom as a site for editing. Drawing inspiration from the women who staffed early cinema’s cutting rooms, Kate Nartker connects the tactile labor of weaving to the invisible craft of film assembly. The works splice textures, colors, and patterns into fragmented imagery held together by visual rhythm rather than narrative logic. Just as a film splice reveals the artifice of continuity, these textiles embrace rupture, transition, and the remnants of what’s missing.
Artist Bio
Kate Nartker works between animation and weaving to dismantle images, narratives, and material structures. She received an MFA from the California College of the Arts and is an Associate Professor at the Wilson College of Textiles at NC State University. Her work has been included in exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally, including The Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, The Contemporary Austin, and the Hordaland Art Center in Bergen, Norway. She was named a 2023 Fulbright U.S. Scholar and her writing has been published in the Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, and the Surface Design Journal.
