About

Amber M. Jensen is a weaver, textile and visual artist, and educator whose work explores the intersection of Scandinavian heritage and contemporary art practice. Rooted in both tradition and innovation, her weavings draw from historical textile structures while embracing experimentation with color, composition, and material.

Jensen has received numerous awards and recognition, most recently the McKnight Fellowship for Fiber Artists at the Textile Center of Minnesota. In 2024 she presented History of the Heart, a solo McKnight Fellowship exhibition at the Textile Center. She previously received a Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Grant through the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and has exhibited her work in group shows from Tokyo to Paris.

Recent and upcoming highlights include participation in the U.S. Department of State’s Arts in Embassies program (U.S. Embassy in Djibouti, beginning 2025) and inclusion in Nordic Echoes: Tradition in Contemporary Art, organized by the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the American-Scandinavian Foundation. The exhibition will open at Scandinavia House in New York City before traveling across the Upper Midwest with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Jensen was also selected for the Homo Faber Guide—an international platform celebrating master artisans—and her work is currently under consideration for the 2026 Venice Biennale.

Her love of making extends to community projects with All My Relations Arts in Minneapolis, the 2024 Art Shanty Projects, and teaching at North House Folk School in Grand Marais. Jensen teaches and works out of her studios in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Marshall, North Carolina, where she continues to explore the evolving language of cloth as a bridge between culture, craft, and contemporary expression.