Etta听Sandry
- PhD student
- ATLAS INSTITUTE
Etta Sandry is an artist, educator, and researcher currently based in Boulder, Colorado. With a practice rooted in weaving, she works between craft, contemporary art, and creative research. Through making, writing, teaching, and facilitating, she explores craft practices as socio-technical systems that have historically been overlooked and undervalued as modes of knowledge and technical production. This work looks at craft materials and processes as systems that enact distinct forms and functions 鈥 like the interlaced grid of a woven cloth or the spiraling twist of a plied thread 鈥 and are entangled in ongoing social and political histories that impact how we take them up in art, design, and daily use. Etta has exhibited work in the United States and Canada and was the 2022 Experimental Weaver in Residence at the Unstable Design Lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder where they now conduct research as a PhD student. They have taught weaving and fiber classes at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Catskill Weaving School and have worked as an organizer and administrator in numerous arts communities, including roles as a board member for the artist-run centre articule in Montreal ACRE Residency in Chicago/Wisconsin. Etta received an MFA in the Fibre & Material Practices program at Concordia University.
Publications
Etta W Sandry,听Lily M Gabriel,听Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, and听Laura Devendorf. 2025. 鈥鈥. In:听Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25). (July 5鈥9, 2025, Funchal, Portugal)
Laura Devendorf, Deanna Gelosi, Steven Frost, Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Etta W Sandry, Lily M Gabriel, Mikhaila Friske, Sasha de Koninck, Shanel Wu. 2025. 鈥鈥. In: CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (Yokohama, Japan; April 26 - May 1, 2025).
Etta Sandry. 2024. 鈥淚nconclusive Objects: Sample Making as Inquiry-Driven Practice.鈥 In: Proceedings from Textile Society of America 2024 Symposium, Shifts & Strands: Rethinking the Potentials of Textiles. (Virtual Event, November 12-17, 2024).
Kristina Andersen, Bruna Goveia da Rocha, Laura Devendorf, Elvia Vasconcelos, Lee Jones, Irene Posch, Anuradha Venugopal Reddy, Aisling Kelliher, Verena Fuchsberger, Lone Koefoed Hansen and Etta Sandry. 2024.听"". In:听Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24), (Copenhagen, Denmark, July 1-5 2024).
Laura Devendorf, Kathryn Walters, Marianne Fairbanks,听Etta Sandry,听Emma R. Goodwill. 2023. 鈥溾. In:听CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems听(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).听听
Laura Devendorf,听Sasha De Koninck, and听Etta Sandry. 2022. An Introduction to Weave Structure for HCI: A How-to and Reflection on Modes of Exchange. In听Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 鈥22), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. 629-642.听听(June 13-17, 2022鈥擵irtual Event, Australia)听[Best Pictorial Honorable Mention Award].
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