Felecia Davis

Felecia Davis’ work in computational textiles questions how we live and re-imagines how we might use textiles in our daily lives and in architecture. Davis is an Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University and is the director of SOFTLAB@PSU. Her design work in architecture connecting art, science, and engineering was featured by PBS in the Women in Science Profiles series and received the 2022 National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum for Digital Design.

Tuning In is an artistic textile and drawing work that captures and uses electromagnetic waves to act as antennas to speak to the enmeshing of the physical and cyber that shape spaces today. The work will focus on using natural and biodegradable yarns in combination with metal yarns to make antennas and antenna sample fabrics and drawings. The sample fabrics and drawings will be shown as part of the Made in PA exhibition that will open at the Palmer Museum at Penn State University in 2024.