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3D Textile Art Episodes

Sept. 7, 2025

Melissa English Campbell - Warping Reality Part 2 [NX105]

In this episode of NeedleXChange I interview Melissa English Campbell. Melissa is a textile artist known for her experimental weaving practice that pushes the boundaries of pattern, structure, and meaning. In this second half of our conversation, Melissa shares how her signature style emerged…

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Aug. 31, 2025

Melissa English Campbell - Warping Reality [NX104]

In this episode of NeedleXChange I interview Melissa English Campbell. Melissa is a textile artist whose weaving combines painting, double-layer structures, and found objects to create works that shift between glitch-like distortion and serene beauty. In this first half of our conversation, Melis…

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Aug. 10, 2025

Claire Voelkel-Sedlmeir - Domestic Documentary [NX102]

In this episode of NeedleXChange, I interview Claire Voelkel-Sedlmeir. Claire is a self-taught textile artist who uses embroidery as a storytelling tool to explore memory, motherhood, and creative discipline. We discuss her two 52-week stitched story projects - how they emerged from a desire to c…

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Aug. 3, 2025

Fuzzy Mall - Having It Large Part 2 [NX101]

In this episode of NeedleXChange I interview Fuzzy Mall. Fuzzy is a visionary textile artist who transforms reclaimed fabrics into playful, large-scale works that break the mould of traditional quilting. We explore how he uses his art to resist digital doomscrolling, experiment with ‘analog AI’ a…

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July 27, 2025

Fuzzy Mall - Having It Large [NX100]

In this 100th episode of NeedleXChange I interview Fuzzy Mall. Fuzzy is a self-taught textile artist celebrated for his huge, detail-rich portraits and installations made entirely from reclaimed fabrics. We talk about how he evolved from painting to pushing the boundaries of quilting at an epic s…

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July 20, 2025

Deborah Simon - Animalistic Abstraction Part 2 [NX099]

In this episode of NeedleXChange, I interview Deborah Simon. Deborah is a Brooklyn-based sculptor and embroiderer whose work brings together faux fur, anatomy and a touch of the otherworldly. In this second half, we dive into how she moved beyond bears to create her transparent rabbits, how s…

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July 13, 2025

Deborah Simon - Animalistic Abstraction

In this episode of NeedleXChange, I interview Deborah Simon. Deborah is a Brooklyn-based sculptor and embroiderer known for her hauntingly beautiful bears and rabbits that blend faux fur, taxidermy and anatomy. We talk about her early influences, how she went from painting to sculpture, and w…

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April 27, 2025

Stephanie Kelly Clark - Life Is Art Part 2 [NX087]

Stephanie Kelly Clark is an embroidery artist who turns the quiet beauty of life into stitched stories.

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April 20, 2025

Stephanie Kelly Clark - Life Is Art [NX086]

Stephanie Kelly Clark is an embroidery artist who turns the quiet beauty of life into stitched stories.

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March 23, 2025

CARO - Weaving Metal and Meaning Part 2 [NX082]

CARO is a multidisciplinary artist who intertwines metalwork and embroidery to explore themes of time, devotion, and material storytelling.

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March 16, 2025

CARO - Weaving Metal and Meaning [NX081]

CARO is a multidisciplinary artist who intertwines metalwork and embroidery to explore themes of time, devotion, and material storytelling.

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Feb. 24, 2025

Rosie James - Worth The Wait Part 2 [NX078]

Rosie James is an artist who captures moments in machine stitch.

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Feb. 17, 2025

Rosie James - Worth The Wait [NX077]

Rosie James is an artist who captures moments in machine stitch.

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Nov. 25, 2024

Salley Mavor - Telling Wee Folk Tales [NX067]

Salley Mavor is a mixed media artist whose folk-art inspired vignettes tell stories of light and dark.

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Nov. 25, 2024

Salley Mavor - Telling Wee Folk Tales Part 2 [NX068]

Salley Mavor is a mixed media artist whose folk-art inspired vignettes tell stories of light and dark.

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May 6, 2024

Audrey Montoya - Felting It Weird Part 2 [NX038]

Audrey Montoya is a needle felting artist whose melancholic characters are strange in all the right ways.

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April 29, 2024

Audrey Montoya - Felting It Weird [NX037]

Audrey Montoya is a needle felting artist whose melancholic characters are strange in all the right ways.

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March 25, 2024

Kate Tume | Creating Cosmology Part 2 [NX032]

Kate Tume, an embroidery and mixed-media artist known as Mother Eagle, creates vibrant masks that personify new Gods and draw from her interest in magic and mythology.

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March 18, 2024

Kate Tume | Creating Cosmology [NX031]

Kate Tume, an embroidery and mixed-media artist known as Mother Eagle, creates vibrant masks that personify new Gods and draw from her interest in magic and mythology.

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Oct. 30, 2023

John Thomas Paradiso | Exotic Embroiderings Part 2 [NX012]

John Thomas Paradiso is a Washington-based artist who has been exploring the intimacy of gay culture through needlework for over 30 years.

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Oct. 23, 2023

John Thomas Paradiso | Exotic Embroiderings [NX011]

John Thomas Paradiso is a Washington-based artist who has been exploring the intimacy of gay culture through needlework for over 30 year

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Sept. 8, 2023

Joetta Maue | Hand Embroidered Intimacy [NX007]

Joetta Maue is a curator, artist and teacher whose embroidered work focuses on liminal moments - the in-between spaces that contain magic if we take time to notice them.

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Aug. 26, 2023

Liv Aanrud | Folk Art With Feeling [NX006]

Liv Aanrud is a Los-Angeles based artist whose vibrant tufted rug art pieces are a new form of folk art.

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