Photo: Eloise Schieferdecker

Catherine De Gennaro (b. 1991) is a weaver and textile artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work directs attention to the largely unseen forces that surround our daily life — from sound waves and light (visible and invisible) to time, memory and labor.

As a lifelong crafter with little formal training, she is always drawn to generous spirit of collaborative learning and skill sharing in the wider textile community. She was inspired to begin her first experiments in weaving specifically through encounters with different textile traditions around the world on her travels producing touring theater works. Following a well-timed intro course at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY in January 2020, she spent the majority of the pandemic in the company of a floor loom in her kitchen and has since maintained her own studio practice alongside her ongoing work supporting other artists as a producer and fundraiser. Catherine has been awarded residencies at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN and Tanglehaven in Troy, NY and holds a B.A. in English Literature and American Musical Culture from Georgetown University.