Yue Xu

Yue Xu is a textile artist who works with diverse craft practices such as weaving, knitting, knot-making, and dyeing. Yue’s work examines the agency and sovereignty of materials, both in tactile and computational form. While they manipulate fibers through a spontaneously encoded operation of hands, machines, and materials, their creative investigation contingents from the interstice between these agents. Yue received their Bachelor’s degree in textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently based in Seattle. 

About Fallingwater Institute

When Edgar Kaufmann jr. entrusted Fallingwater to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in 1963, he envisioned Fallingwater not only as a place where visitors would come to experience great architecture, but also where a deeper experience of art, design and nature might occur.

Kaufmann imagined that Fallingwater could become a place where artists, scholars, designers and learners might come to find inspiration from the building and its landscape while pursuing individual or group study. Today, the Fallingwater Institute, formally established in 2015, honors that vision by providing a stimulating location for creative collaboration and inspired thinking through immersive classes, workshops and residencies. By serving an international community through its innovative programming, the Fallingwater Institute works to create and disseminate new ideas that promote harmony between people and nature.