JA FELT

Janice Arnold (JA) is an artist who designs and invents bespoke textiles and likes to do unexpected things with them! Thank you for your understanding.

The JA FELT Studio & LAB is a private artist studio We are constantly working on new and proprietary projects. To respect the privacy of our focused work, research, development, as well as our clients, we are not open to the public except by invitation.

03/27/2026

A Glimpse into
ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE

Thursday April 2, 2026
7-9 pm

Traditions Fair Trade
300 5th Ave SW, Olympia

Free to All
Light Refreshments

Presentation by Pam McClusky
Seattle Art Museum

Discover this intriguing and overlooked form of “AI”.

Animal Intelligence has long been discounted or ignored. Now, it is a new field opening our understanding of animal consciousness, interactions, and our interconnectedness with the natural world.

Join Pam McClusky, a senior curator at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), for an engaging presentation and conversation that highlights her research and how it led to the current ground-breaking exhibition at SAM titled “A Room for Animal Intelligence.”

Pam will share some unexpected advances in unlocking the secrets of Animal Intelligence, as creatures sing, chitter, buzz, bellow, and howl for various reasons, offering insights that will transform the way you view, consider, and think about our fellow travelers in the web of life.

Made possible by
The FELT Road - http://thefeltroad.org
With support from Inspire Olympia

03/08/2026

Here’s a snippet of the award ceremony at the Washington Center Stage tonight!!!! What a celebration ! Thank you to everyone who attended and a special shout out to & !

03/04/2026

So honored to be the recipient of the this year’s Achievement in the Arts award from the Washington Center for the Performing Arts. With so many incredible artists in the Pacific Northwest - I am humbled to receive this recognition!

Visit the link in my bio to learn more about the upcoming March 7 CENTER Stage Awards & Gala event - a progressive evening of celebration, philanthropy and music!

01/07/2026

12th Day of Christmas!
Twelve books from my studio library that speak to my hopes & dreams for 2026.

Question : If I could felt this stack what would it become?

01/06/2026

11th Day of Christmas.
Eleven stars simply resting on the eleventh (and final) sample from a commission eleven years ago.

Sometimes it just takes a long time to accomplish what one is seeking. This was one of those commissions. And I probably learned eleven lessons ( or more !) from it. Because complex and subtle textures are frequently the most challenging.

01/05/2026

10th Day of Christmas.
Ten Fingers on the Mother Felt.

This photo is from a site - specific stitching event held this past summer.

Community members had the opportunity to stitch the original Indigenous names for the inlets in the Salish Sea through the Nomadic Mother Felt.

Learning, honoring, remembering.

A collaboration with s’gʷi gʷi ʔ altxʷ - House of Welcome Indigenous Cultural Arts Center on The Evergreen State College Campus in Olympia Washington.

The House of Welcome is a public service center, built in collaboration with Pacific Northwest tribes.

30 years strong, it is the first building of its kind on a public campus in the United States. This multipurpose facility is designed to serve a variety of educational, cultural, and community functions. Founded upon a vision of hospitality and service, It is a gathering place for people of all cultural backgrounds to teach and learn with each other.

01/04/2026

9th Day of Christmas.
Nine Experimental Pieces!

01/03/2026

8th Day of Christmas.
Eight Boxes of Shell Buttons.

01/01/2026

7th Day of Christmas.
Seven Countries along The FELT Road that I plan to connect with in 2026!

12/31/2025

6th Day of Christmas.
Six Steps in the Process of Reconstructing a Yurt.

Photo Credit: From the book “Nomadic Felts“ (Artistic Traditions in World Cultures ) by Stephanie Bunn.

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Grand Mound, WA

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http://www.jafelt.com/

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