2026 Artist in Residence
September 2 - 27
Carl Stewart (he/him) is a weaver and teacher living and working in Ottawa.
For more than 30 years Stewart has employed traditional hand-weaving techniques to explore the fundamental role textiles play in the crafting of queer culture and identity. As a cis-gender queer man practicing within a perceived “feminine” domain, his work challenges heteronormative and gendered structures of power by celebrating, memorializing, documenting and commemorating the intimate, the fabulous, the egregious and the tragic.
His work has been shown in exhibitions across Canada and the United States including the Textile Museum of Canada (Toronto, ON), Art Museum of the Americas (Washington, DC), Ottawa Art Gallery (Ottawa, ON), Schmidt Art Center (Belleville, IL), Mississippi Valley Textile Museum (Almonte, ON) and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York, NY).
He has received professional grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Public Art Program of the City of Ottawa.
Stewart’s work hangs in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank, the Public Art Collection of the City of Ottawa, the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, the Ottawa Art Gallery and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.