EMILIE ODEILE

Selected Public Art & Installations

Space Cowboy — Ten-foot fiber sculpture fusing cowboy culture with aerospace fantasy through scale and motion. (forthcoming, 2026)
Stampede — Site-specific suspended fiber installation using barbed wire and fishing line to evoke the material and social polarities present in the contemporary rural West.
Goodnight Moon: A Fiber Tale — 500-sq-ft immersive textile environment that revisits childhood memory—familiar, vivid, and always just out of reach.
FROG: A Fiber Situation — 13-ft knitted sculpture exploring frogging—the act of unraveling and starting over—as release, reinvention, and the courage to begin again.
Tom Mix Wept — Fiber sculpture examining the tension between grit and vulnerability within Western myth.

Selected Exhibitions & Presentations

2026
Goodnight Moon: A Fiber Tale — PACE Center, Parker, CO (solo, touring)
Space Cowboy — Colorado Creative Industries Conference, Trinidad, CO (forthcoming, solo, touring)
Space Cowboy — Public installation, Ignacio, CO (forthcoming, solo, touring)
Contemporary Fiber — PACE Center, Parker, CO

2025
Goodnight Moon: A Fiber Tale — Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO (solo, touring)
Stampede — A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art, Trinidad, CO (long-term installation)
Icons for a New West — Gallery 1261, Denver, CO

2024
Latitude 37 — Arvada Center, Arvada, CO
Badass Women of the West — Gallery 1261, Denver, CO
Resonance ’24 — A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art, Trinidad, CO

2023
Goodnight Moon: A Fiber Tale — Space to Create, Trinidad, CO (solo, touring)
Resonance ’23 — A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art, Trinidad, CO

2022
FROG: A Fiber Situation — Space to Create, Trinidad, CO (solo)
True West — BRDG Project, Denver, CO
Rural Art Show — The Garage, Branson, CO
Veterans Arts Council Exhibition — VFW Post 1 Gallery, Denver, CO

Awards, Grants & Honors

NEA Grant — FROG
Fiber Art Now Grant — Stampede
Arts in Society Grant — Goodnight Moon: A Fiber Tale
Startup Colorado — Artist-in-Residence
Certificate of Recognition — City of Los Angeles

Scale & Technical Practice (Selected)

Line-based fabrication using yarn, string, wire, and industrial materials such as fishing line and barbed wire
Structural textile construction ranging from garments to large-scale installations
Pattern development and iterative problem-solving for complex forms
Integration of soft fiber materials with rigid armatures and spatial supports

Publications

Arm Knitting: 30 No-Needle Projects for You and Your Home — Penguin Books, contributing artist (chunky beanie, blanket, and Boho Vest patterns)
The World According to Wonder — World of Wonder / Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato, 2013, featured artist (crocheted Pee-Wee Herman doll)
Sheep & Emilie — Picture book by Maria Loewenstein, illustrated by Amir Roumie, inspired by Emilie Odeile’s fiber work

Press & Media (Selected) — Fiber & Installation (2022–present)

Western Art & Architecture
Rocky Mountain PBS
Westword
Fiber Art Now
Colorado Public Radio
Knit Nation
Fiber Talk Podcast
Arvada Center — Artist Feature Video
Fox 21 News
Boettcher Foundation
Tenet Podcast

Press & Media (Selected) — Fashion & Wearables (2008–2015)

Italian Vogue
Elle
Lucky
Schön!
RackedLA
Daily Candy
Fuego
CDSavoia — Short Film featuring Emilie Odeile

Professional Background

Co-Founder & Lead Artist — Dundee & Lee (2022–present), Colorado
Concept development and fiber construction for large-scale installations and public artworks.

Founder & Designer — ARTSTRING (2010–2015), Hollywood, CA
Custom knitwear shown on runways in New York, Paris, and Los Angeles.
Commercial clients include Target, Walmart, Axe, AT&T, Verizon, Weight Watchers, Pinnacle Vodka, Cinnabon, Infiniti, Converse, Old Navy, Sonic Drive-In, Wonderful Pistachios, Lenovo, TRESemmé, RadioShack, Citizens Bank, CDW.
Selected commissions include Wish I Was Here, RENT, Cinnamon Girl, Dust.

Vogue Knitting Live (2014), Los Angeles, CA
Sculptural knitted garment featured.

Selected Work with MarcoMarco (2008–2013), Hollywood, CA
Costume and fashion work for hire across entertainment including Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D. World Tour; RuPaul’s Drag Race; American Idol; music videos and runway shows.

Professional Service & Talks

Juror — Contemporary Fiber Art Exhibition, PACE Center, Parker, CO (2026)
Artist Talk — Goodnight Moon: A Fiber Tale, Parker Arts / Schoolhouse Theater, Parker, CO (2026)