Hello!

I am Roxy Leann Bridges (they/them) a textile artist originally from Georgia. I have spent the past few years in Rhode Island while I work on getting my BFA in textiles from RISD, with a concentration in Nature Culture Sustainability Studies. An emphasis on location, as place-based explorations and ties to Appalachian craft and quilting guide a lot of my making practice.

Through traditional practices of dyeing, weaving, quilting, and foraging I am learning and exploring both with and from the Landscape. With illustrated elements and material explorations I map out both the places which I inhabit as well as my everyday. Mapping not as this way of laying claim, but as a way of learning and navigating, a way of trying to understand and build community. By focusing on and emphasizing everyday beings or ‘objects’ in my work I aim to emphasize the importance of the non-human.

As I continue to map, stitch, and navigate my practice I keep in mind sustainable and reciprocal pedagogies. Not only through natural materials and dyes but also by continuing to develop a relationship with the materials themselves, finding maybe more unconventional ways to thank and acknowledge both human and more than human contributors in my work. Such as most recently listing my sewing machine “Blueberry” as a collaborator for my quilts.