Tyler is pleased to collaborate with The Fabric Workshop and Museum to present a conversation between Bay Area–based artists Josh Faught and Diedrick Brackens. This event is hosted in partnership with Tyler's Art History program, the Queer Materials Lab and the Fibers & Material Studies program at Tyler School of Art and Architecture.

Faught and Brackens will discuss their individual artistic practices and approaches to fiber, material, craft, and identity. Josh Faught is a fiber artist and educator whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses sculpture, textiles, collage, and painting. Drawing on techniques including knitting, crochet, and weaving, Faught’s work considers the intersections of craft, queer history, material culture, and personal and collective memory. Diedrick Brackens is an artist whose woven tapestries draw on the visual language and histories of textile traditions to explore Black and queer identity, mythology, intimacy, and belonging. His practice brings together historical and contemporary references through richly patterned and materially complex composition.

The conversation coincides with You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry, an exhibition at The Fabric Workshop and Museum featuring the work of both artists. The exhibition is on view through January 3, 2027.

Image: Diedrick Brackens (left) and Josh Faught (right)
Photo courtesy of SCAD