Fern’s School of Craft

In 2022, Louden was invited by Fern Facette to spend 3 months as part of the inaugural Artist in Residence program at Fern’s School of Craft in Edmonton, AB. It was here that Louden learned how to use cut and loop pile tufting guns and was struck by the similarities between how one handles a tufting gun and a can of spray paint. From here, Louden began thinking more deeply about the role of craft in Black communities, and the use of textiles to consider the history of craft in rural Alberta in particular.