Nicole Yi Messier is an interdisciplinary artist, creative technologist, and community organizer with a focus on storytelling, community, and installations. She has received recognized grants, fellowships, and residencies and shared her work internationally. Recent residencies include CultureHub NYC, Praxis Digital Weaving Residency, Directangle, and Pocoapoco. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at La Mama Galleria, the Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, the Australian Tapestry Workshop, Prairie Ronde Artist Gallery, and at Incantatio Mundi - New European Bauhaus in Lasi, Romania. She is a co-founder of Craftwork Collective, a multidisciplinary studio working on experiential sculptures, installations, and projects. Messier also teaches at Parsons School of Design and co-organizes artist-led residency, electronic textile camp.
“Storytelling, community collaboration, and craft are integral to my work as a multidisciplinary artist. The work I create seeks to refocus the mysticism behind machines and hardware through architectural and sculptural interactives and craft. My practice researches and exposes unknown ways to incorporate how to use technologies in avenues that were not intended, often creating expressive, soft, and tangible technological interfaces through digital and craft mediums. Working on sculptural and architectural scale pieces with fibers, hardware, and soft-technologies, the work I create ranges from hanging textile sculptures to interactive garments to installations through a thread of historical and cultural storytelling.”