BIOGRAPHY
Josh Faught is a Sacramento-based fiber artist. Faught creates sculptures that use traditional textile and homespun techniques, such as loom-weaving, knitting, and crocheting, to explore craft traditions, queer culture, and personal history. In 2025, Faught received the Guggenheim Fellowship. Recent solo exhibitions include Josh Faught, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2025) and Look Across the Water into the Darkness, Look for the Fog, Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2022).
COURSES TAUGHT
Josh Faught is the fall quarter visiting professor in The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies. He will teach ART113: Vagabond Weaving. The upper-division undergraduate course is designed for art studio majors who are interested in interdisciplinary approaches to cloth, sculpture and materiality. The course meets on Monday and Wednesday from 1:10 - 4 p.m.
PUBLIC LECTURE
Faught will give a public lecture on Thursday, October 2 at 4:30 p.m.
PHOTOS
Photographs will be available at the conclusion of the residency.
Banner photo credit: Josh Faught, Eternal Flame, 2022, Hand dyed, bleached, and woven hemp and cotton; abstraction woven from a late-1980s AIDS vigil in San Francisco, California; screen printed sympathy flowers on cotton; Trials of Life (VHS) on stretched linen; the entire 264 episodes of Murder She Wrote on DVD; spray enamel; nail polish; salvaged wood,metal, and asphalt paper reconstructed to resemble the artist’s garage; digital video monitors. Photo: Impart Photography