Steven Frost headshot
Associate Director, Unstable Design Lab
Media Studies
steven.frost@colorado.edu

Steven Frost听(they/them) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of听Media听Studies at CU Boulder and an interdisciplinary fiber artist. Their research focuses on textiles, queer studies, and community development.听Using weaving,听Frost combines traditional materials like yarn and cotton with non-traditional materials from a range of sources, exploring the ways history and time are uniquely embedded in textiles.听Frost is a Co-Founder of the Experimental Weaving Residency, Slay the Runway, and the Colorado Sewing Rebellion and the Associate Director of the Unstable Design Lab at CU Boulder's Roser Atlas Institute. Frost has exhibited and performed across the US and Internationally. Frost's work has been featured on NPR鈥檚 Morning Edition and can currently be seen at the Denver Art Museum.

B2 Center for Media, Arts and Performance (CMAP)听听

Member of the Unstable Design Lab

Publications

  • Laura Devendorf, Katya Arquilla, Sandra Wirtanen, Allison Anderson听and Steven Frost. 2020. Craftspeople as Technical Collaborators: Lessons Learned through an Experimental Weaving Residency. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 鈥�20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1鈥�13. DOI: (Honolulu, Hawaii (virtual)鈥揂pril 25-30, 2020) [Honorable Mention Award].

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