News & Media
Textile Art Magazine
“Interview with the American textile artist Melissa English Campbell” 2026
Campbell is interviewed in this German-based magazine, which focuses on contemporary textile art, highlighting exhibitions, artists, and key events within the field. The feature offers an opportunity to situate her work within an international context, drawing connections between her material-driven practice and broader conversations in textile art today, while introducing her approach to audiences engaged with both traditional and experimental forms of the medium. Read the interview in english.
CAN Journal
“Weaving Currents: Reclaiming Joy” by Karen Petkovic, 2025
Feature article discussing Campbell’s solo exhibition Weaving Currents: Reclaiming Joy, scheduled to be featured at the BAYarts Sullivan Family Gallery from January 9 to February 7, 2026. The exhibition is a vibrant, unapologetic celebration centered on themes of community, family, and the serenity of water, where Campbell transforms personal, familiar experiences—such as watching children grow and spending sunny days at the lake—into narratives that explore identity and resistance. Her work, characterized by vivid, textile-based compositions, combines internal reflection with richly layered, colorful, and tactile materials. Through this body of work, the exhibition offers a space for reflection on joy and connection, inviting viewers to engage with the emotional and sensory possibilities of textile art.
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NeedleXchange Podcast
“Melissa English Campbell - Warping Reality” [NX104 + NX105] by Jamie Chalmers, 2025
In this two-part conversation with Jamie "Mr X Stitch" Chalmers, Melissa discusses how dyslexia shaped her dimensional thinking and her path to weaving as a late discovery. She traces how her signature style emerged through experimentation with mirrored double-weave structures and the incorporation of found objects such as sticks and branches, and reflects on cultural history and appropriation as they relate to her practice. The conversation also covers her nomadic upbringing, her teaching experience at Kent State, and the influences that inform her work.
Women United Art Magazine
“Melissa English Campbell” 2025
As a recipient of the Women United Women’s Art Prize in the Collage & Fiber Art category, Melissa is featured in an in-depth interview for the organization’s magazine, offering insight into their artistic practice, influences, and the ideas that shape her work.
TXP (Dutch)
“Melissa English Campbell”, 2025
The leading Dutch-based quarterly magazine, dedicated to textile art, fiber art, and contemporary textile design, features Melissa’s work alongside insight into her process. The publication highlights both finished pieces and the material investigations that shape them, offering a closer look at her use of painted yarn, her weaving methods, and the interplay between structure and disruption that defines her practice.
Artwork Archive
“This Artist Found a Way to Blend Painting and Weaving—And It's Stunning” by Paige Mills, 2024
In this 2024 interview, Melissa discusses how she paints directly onto yarns before weaving, introducing chance and disruption into a highly structured process. She talks about the Impressionist painters who influence her work, the pixelated visual phenomenon created by layering colored yarns on the loom, and how she thinks about engaging viewers on multiple levels through color, tactility, and patterning. The conversation also covers how she manages her practice as a small business.
Artist/Mother Podcast
“Breaking Away from Shame and Breaking into Weaving with Lauren Salazar and Melissa English Campbell” by Kaylan Buteyn, 2023
Melissa joins fellow weaver Lauren Salazar for a conversation hosted by Kaylan Buteyn. Melissa shares her nomadic childhood, which began with a hippy caravan out of San Francisco and included time at the Farm commune in Tennessee, and how that rootless upbringing shaped her artistic sensibility. She talks about returning to the loom 30 years after a failed undergrad weaving class, finding that the patience and discipline of midlife made everything click, and recognizing weaving as the visual language she had been searching for. The conversation goes deep on process, including how Melissa uses pattern and repetition to make static woven structures feel filled with movement.
Handweavers Guild of America
Textiles & Tea Interview by Kathy Group, 2021
Melissa walks through her complete process: painting directly onto the warp using a mixed slurry of fiber reactive dyes, inks, and pigments, then weaving only the top layer of a double weave structure to preserve the integrity of the painted image. She talks about developing the undulating twill structure that gives her work its characteristic sense of movement, and explains why she paints each portrait twice, once per layer. The conversation also covers her nomadic childhood across the US, Europe, and the Middle East, and how a lifetime of absorbing cultural and visual contrast became the foundation for a practice built on the tension between rhythm and disruption.
Interview begins at 1:58 mark.
Timeless Textiles: Centre of Fibre Artisans
“Why Janice Lessman-Moss?”, 2021
Melissa discusses the woven portrait she created of fiber artist and former mentor Janice Lessman-Moss for the international exhibition "Ain't the Archies," in which fiber artists made portraits of other fiber artists. She talks about what drew her to Lessman-Moss as a subject and how the landscape of her native Pennsylvania is reflected in her work.