Marcos Kueh, "Kenyalang Circus" (detail)

Outstanding Student Awards 2025, Part 1 (of 4)

The winners of SDA’s Outstanding Student Awards were recently announced for the students who have demonstrated excellence in fiber arts. The work of these artists embodied inventive and innovative use of technique, materials and concepts not only in fibers and textiles, but in printmaking, sculpture, and more. It is an honor for the Education Committee to be able to see student work, review it, and learn more about the personal and societal issues they are tackling through their work. We will be spotlighting our Outstanding Student Award Winners throughout July and August. Be sure to follow them and support their practices. Congratulations to all 53 awardees!


Laura Reiss (she/her), Revivify: Design Through the Decades, 2025. Digitally designed pillows, curtains, dress, wallpaper and time capsule sample boxes, Photo by the artist. Undergraduate, Savannah College of Art and Design. cultclassicsdesign.com | @cultclassics_design

Ahndiya Kiburi (she/her), Lucky, 2025. Indigo dyed, cyanotyped and crocheted cotton and upcyled crochet fabric. Photo by the artist. Undergraduate, University of California Davis. @ahndiya.studio

Anne Flynn (she/her), Weighted, 2024. Quilted, cyanotyped, painted and embroidered cotton fabric, denim, tule and canvas with batting, thread and acrylic paint. 90 x 86 inches. Photo by the artist. Undergraduate, Brigham Young University. anneflynnart.com | @anneflynn.art

Ivy Wright (she/her), Log Cabin, 2025. Plaited flat reed with copper wire, 6 x 5 x 7 inches. Photo by the artist. Undergraduate, University of North Texas.

Havily Nwakuche (she/her), Goya Goya Goya, 2024. Resist- and hibiscus-dyed cassava paste on cotton fabric, 135 x 501 inches. Photo: Carla Liesching. Undergraduate, Cornell University. havily-nwakuche.myportfolio.com/textiles | @havilynwakuche

Gabrielle Knapp (she/her), We Spin Together In The Full Dark, Obliterated, Until Our Dust Enters The Hall Of Perfection, Condensed Down To A Point; Or, Elegy For A Spear, 2025. Pieceworked, hand- and free motion machine-embroidered, immersion and screenprinted dyes on linen, hemp, cotton, viscose and silk cloth with beeswax, 63 x 67 inches. Photo by the artist. Undergraduate, Sheridan College.

Erica Alexander (she/her), Everything I Know About Love, 2024. Natural dyed and quilted linen with sashiko thread, 69.5 x 53 inches. Photo by the artist. Undergraduate, Kansas City Art Institute. ericaalexander.com | @ericagalex

Lusiana Morales (she/her), Entrelazado Séptimo, 2024. Handmade paper and netting with oak leaves, flax, cardboard and silk thread on jasmine vine, 22 x 36 x 6 inches. Photo by the artist. Graduate, Savannah College of Art and Design. lusianamorales.com | @lusiana.arte

Rachael Segrest Cox (she/her), Sedimentary Altar Cloths with Ruptures, 2025. TC2 woven and handwoven rya knots with natural dyes, dimensions vary. Photo by the artist. Graduate, Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Precious Gyekye (she/her), Weight of Silence #1, 2024. Crocheted fiber and wire, 66 x 34 x 10 inches. Photo: Tom Muir. Graduate, Bowling Green State University. @precious_beadx_art

Ashley Larson (she/her), By Hand / With Time, 2025. Unraveled textiles with wood, steel and epoxy clay, dimensions vary. Photo: Teri Harrison. Graduate, Boise State University. ashllart.com | @ashllart

Malavika Singh Thakur (she/her), Malflower V, 2025. Machine embroidered, frayed, darned and appliquéd textile scraps and yarn, 48 x 94 inches. Photo by the artist. Graduate, Savannah College of Art and Design. @thakur_malavika_singh

Lilla Rosenberg (she/her), Halkan az Arany Üveg Mögött // Softly Behind the Amber Glass, 2024. Beadwork on cotton with slip cast ceramic, fired and burnished with beeswax, 9 x 10 x 1 inches. Photo by the artist. Undergraduate, Savannah College of Art and Design. himzes.net | @himz.es

Prisma Andrade (she/they), El Segundo, 2025. Piece-worked, dyed and over-dyed muslin painted decorated with lattice fringe 75 x 27 inches. Photo by the artist. Undergraduate, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. @prismacolorhell


For more information check out the Grants & Outstanding Student Awards page.

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