Kately Towsley is an interdisciplinary artist making fiber, performance, text, and ephemera-based works to examine personal experience, connection to place, and acknowledgement, slowness, and care. She is interested in themes of spirituality, memory, presence, story, and thresholds. In her most recent body of work, she looks to her grandparents’ wheat field—a recurring landscape from her childhood and dreams— as a site of holding and release, return and departure, becoming and unbecoming. Towsley is from Sapulpa, Oklahoma and graduated with her BFA from Oklahoma State University in 2021. Before moving to Chicago for her MFA, she lived and worked in Valencia, Spain and Philadelphia, and completed artist residencies in Finland (2023), Colombia (2025), and India (2026). After completing her MFA at SAIC, she will continue her practice in the Chicago-area until an opportunity opens for her to accompany her spouse for higher education studies in Dublin, Ireland.