about the artist

Artist Bio

Madi Snow-Gould (she/her) is a fiber artist living in Waco, Texas. Disabled by several chronic illnesses, Madi picked up weaving seven years ago to pass the time in bed and found a deep love for the medium. She studied social work at Baylor University and is self-taught in her artistic practice. Her work is characterized by bright color, maximalist texture, thoughtfully sourced materials, and aesthetic abundance. Snow-Gould is a proud disabled woman, and the transformative liberation of her experiences in community with other disabled people is the engine of her life and art. When she’s not getting weird with yarn, Madi works part-time doing research for the Baylor Collaborative on Faith and Disability. 

Madi was honored to be a member of the 2025 Kennedy Center VSA Emerging Young Artist cohort. You can view her work on Instagram @confetti.weaves, or online at www.confettiweaves.com.

Artist Statement

I make bright, personal handwoven tapestries using a selection of thoughtfully chosen fibers. My work is an exploration of embodied particularity shaped entirely by my experience with catastrophic chronic illness. At the loom, I find tools to examine and materialize complex elements of pain and disability. I believe absurd goodness brings balance against the absurdity of unresolvable pain. I pursue that benevolent absurdity in the aesthetics of my practice — abundance for the sake of abundance, glee without constraints. 

Many have learned to conceptualize disability as a kind of flat tragedy, when, in truth, the landscape of disability is lush with resilience, joy, community, and possibility. With that in mind, I engage dimension and bright color to explore a complex, countercultural vision of disability. My work is an invitation to disabled people to celebrate their particularity, and a challenge to non disabled people to reimagine what they believe about different bodies.