Kayla Dantz is a photo-textile artist and designer from Massachusetts. Her practice is rooted in handmade techniques like weaving, knitting, and embroidery, shaped by her background in fashion design and her education at the Parsons School of Design. She blends artisanal and digital processes, working primarily with archival and self-produced photography that she reassembles through handwoven textiles, evoking the quiet, fragmented nature of memory.

She is drawn to personal imagery, especially vintage family photos from the 1960s and ’70s, and the way these visual artifacts carry meaning across generations. By weaving photographs, she explores how time distorts and reshapes memory and identity, bringing physicality and texture to images that might otherwise exist only in flat or digital form.

Her influences range from family history to the tactile slowness of fiber and the immediacy of photography, a medium she embraced during her teenage years in the darkroom. Taught to knit and sew by her grandmothers, her earliest photographs captured family members and shared spaces. These early experiences continue to shape her approach to craft and image-making.

Today, Dantz lives and works in Massachusetts.