Josh Faught is a Sacramento-based fiber artist. Faught creates sculptures that use traditional textile and homespun techniques, such as loom-weaving, knitting, and crocheting, to explore craft traditions, queer culture, and personal history. In 2025, Faught received the Guggenheim Fellowship. Recent solo exhibitions include Josh Faught, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2025) and Look Across the Water into the Darkness, Look for the Fog, Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2022).

Faught is the fall quarter visiting professor in The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies.

Artist talk: Wednesday, Oct. 1 from 4:30-6 p.m., Main Theatre, Wright Hall. The talk is free and open to the public. Doors open at 4 p.m.

Organized by The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residences in the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.