About

Amber M. Jensen is a weaver, textile artist, curator, and educator whose work explores the expressive possibilities of cloth through color, structure, and material. Drawing from Scandinavian textile traditions while embracing contemporary abstraction, her practice moves fluidly between weaving, drawing, installation, and sculpture, creating tactile works that exist somewhere between painting and cloth.

Jensen is the recipient of a McKnight Fiber Artist Fellowship and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. In 2024 she presented History of the Heart, a solo fellowship exhibition at the Textile Center in Minneapolis. Her work has been included in the U.S. Department of State’s Arts in Embassies program, the traveling exhibition Nordic Echoes: Tradition in Contemporary Art, and the Homo Faber Guide, an international platform recognizing outstanding contemporary craft.

Alongside her studio practice, Jensen creates large-scale textile installations for architectural and public spaces while continuing to develop artist-made objects and immersive woven environments. In 2026 she expanded her practice into curatorial work with Holding Together: Cloth, Material & Making, an exhibition exploring transformation, material, and the connective possibilities of making.

Jensen teaches workshops throughout the United States and works from her studios in Marshall, North Carolina. Surrounded by the Appalachian landscape, her practice responds to shifting seasons, forest walks, changing light, and the quiet rhythms of everyday life. She sees the loom as a place of ongoing curiosity, where each thread becomes part of an unfolding visual language.