www.caitlincary.com | @caitlin_cary_art
Caitlin Cary is a Raleigh, NC-based, self-taught textile artist and musician known for her innovative and intricate sewn fabric collages, which she calls Needleprints. Cary works exclusively with repurposed fabrics, primarily cast-offs from the upholstery/interior design industry.
Cary’s work has been featured in Our State magazine, Walter magazine, and The News & Observer. Her work is widely collected, awarded, and exhibited in galleries, public spaces, and private collections in North Carolina and beyond. From August ’25 to Jan 2026, her piece “Death and Taxes” is on view at the North Carolina Museum of Art as part of the show “Then and There, Here and Now: Contemporary Visions of North Carolina."
“I love fabric for its sentimental power,” Cary says. “Fabric is comfort. It’s home. It’s the protection of clothing, and the softness of drapery and furniture. Moreover, it is a repository for amazing artistry; even fabric totally made by machine begins with the design ingenuity of artists. I love that in making my work, I am inherently ’in conversation’ with a huge number of fellow artists. When I depict the built environment in fabric, it automatically becomes softer, more dear, more relatable. I love the feeling that each piece becomes a part of the legacy of textile design, manufacture, and craft in North Carolina and beyond.”
In recent years, Cary has been experimenting with abstract forms and additional mediums, including encaustic wax, imported silks (a gift from the NC State School of Design), paper, film, and more.
