Faculty Title Instructor Degree Katya Oicherman is an artist, educator and textile researcher. Engaging with video, installation, performance, craft and writing, she explores how personal and collective memories and identities are reflected in, and shaped by, material culture. She lived in Russia, Israel and the UK, currently she is based in Minneapolis. She studied textile design and art, and modern Jewish studies in Israel and the UK. In her practice-based PhD (Goldsmiths, London) she studied 19th German Jewish ritual textiles to develop a model of imbuing historical craft artifacts with contemporary relevance through rigorous creative research. She exhibited her artwork internationally. She published catalogue essays for prominent Israeli textile artists and research articles on the subject of the PhD. She taught textile art, design and history and headed the department of Textile Design (Shenkar College, Israel). She worked in the industry as a weaving textile designer for interior textiles.