A textile practice shaped by memory, material, and place.

I’m Taylor Aurora, a textile artist based in Phoenix, Arizona. My work centers on hand-tufted and mixed-media textile pieces that explore abstraction, landscape, and emotional memory through color, texture, and scale.

Working primarily with yarn and soft materials, I create dimensional works that invite pause and close looking. Each piece is developed through an intuitive, process-driven approach—responding to material, space, and the subtle relationships between form and feeling.

Influenced by desert light, natural rhythms, and a background in interdisciplinary arts and design, my practice balances softness with structure. The resulting work is grounded, tactile, and quietly immersive—created to hold space rather than demand attention.

Selected Credentials

Education
BFA, Interdisciplinary Arts, University of Washington, Seattle
Minor in Art History
AFA, Minneapolis Community and Technical College

Exhibitions & Installations
Pomelo (Two-Person Installation), Pomelo Farm Party Event, Seattle
MakeFashion, Beakerhead Arts & Engineering Festival, Calgary, Canada
Hypnotica, Hyena Culture, Seattle
Machines of Survival, DxArts Soft Lab, Seattle
Fatal Femme, Neon Gallery, Seattle
Honeycombs (Solo Exhibition), Seattle ReCreative
Additional group exhibitions in Seattle and Minneapolis

Grants & Awards
MakeFashion CA Grant
Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship
MCTC Foundation Scholarship
The Wind Shanty Projects Grant

Selected Publications
The Chicago Reader
Voyage Magazine
The Daily UW
ArtsFund Seattle
Emerald Magazine