Katie Han

Technician - Knitting, CAD Lab

Katie Han is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Providence, RI. She received a BFA in Textiles at RISD, and her work builds upon this foundation to create narrative sculptural pieces.

Prior to her current role as knit technician in the Textiles department at RISD, Han was based in Brooklyn, NY where she worked as a knitwear designer at rag & bone and Stoll programmer and technician at Knit Resort. Her profession in knit development informed the iterative nature of her tenacious creative process. Many of her pieces take several years to complete using traditional textiles-based craft techniques such as weaving, machine knitting, and embroidery, drawing on traditional acts of domestic labor as sites of rumination and new understandings.

Editions of Han’s recently completed artist book, Through The Lotus Gate, are part of the collections of the Tatter Blue Library (Brooklyn, NY) and the RISD Fleet Library Special Collection (Providence, RI).