Isabella King is a San Francisco Bay Area based textile artist and painter originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. King maintains a studio practice in Oakland, California while working as a philanthropy professional raising vital funds for San Francisco Bay Area arts nonprofits. From 2014 to 2018 King studied Studio Art and English at Wellesley College. During her final year at Wellesley, she created a thesis show entitled “Woven in Paint” featuring works combining painting and reclaimed textiles. She graduated with honors in both majors and was awarded the Kathryn Wasserman Davis ’28 Art Prize for Writing.
King relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2020 where she found a supportive community of artists working within the Bay Area’s rich textile and fiber art traditions. In 2022 King participated in Art Builds Community’s Downtown San Jose residency and public art initiative, “The Womanhood Project: Anonymous No More” supported by the San Jose Office of Women’s Policy and was awarded the Alice C. Cole ’42 Studio Project Grant to support the completion of “Take Caution,” a soft sculpture and art quilt project and exhibition which was shown at the Jewett Art Center at Wellesley College in March of 2024.
