ABOUT

Christine Novotny is a textile artist, designer and educator. She weaves vibrant textiles, all guided by her love for surprising color and design interactions. From rugs and blankets to fine art work, each of her pieces explore color nuance and relationships through materiality and traditional techniques. Her designs are guided intuitively by the physical practice of different woven processes, finding bold, graphic forms in tapestry and loom-controlled designs, and sensitivity and atmospheric movement in rya pile weavings. Christine's weavings explore not "if" colors work together, but how they interact, seeking unexpected chromatic kinship in woven form.

Christine lives and works in Grand Marais, Minnesota.

 
When I begin project planning, the math is incredibly important! And kinda fun…? It’s not so much a labor - I actually enjoy the very simple calculations, imagining the movement of my warp and weft in partnership with my envisioned numbe
Roses in a Broken Vase Hand Dyed Wool and Linen 64x35” 2024 There’s so much to say about this piece, began weeks before my birth, finished in the months after. This wasn’t my hope - I’d expected to show it at my exhibit at th
Weavers! I am excited to announce that I’m hosting another session of my VIRTUAL project planning course - “From Sett to Shrinkage: Project Planning for Weavers.” October 17, 6:30-8:30 CDT. This two hour class is full of informati
My ASI show has now been up for a few months now 💫 thank you so much to everyone who has visited, sent me pictures and reached out to me about pieces they enjoyed. I haven’t been weaving much this summer, so it gives me so much joy knowing tha
I move pretty intuitively with color. I make decisions quickly and without a lot of judgment. There’s no “right answer” when it comes to chromatic pairings, but there’s always lots of questions. When to brighten, how to muddy,
Weeeeeee the Eclipse Rya is out today! A new pattern by me released by my loves @gistyarn. This rya evokes the dusky skies before and after 2024’s total eclipse. You’ll practice a rug style edge treatment, color blending, and of course,
Friends! My show at @amswedinstitute opens this weekend in conjunction with “Karin Larsson: Let the Hand be Seen”! If you are in the Twin Cities area, I’m pleased to invite you to the First Look event this Sunday, June 9. See both s