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YOLOTLI combines art, style and longevity to create timeless designs for the sophisticated and conscious customer by promoting excellent craftsmanship, artisanal techniques and the highest quality natural materials

     THE TEAM

Photo Emma K. Morris

ABOUT NICOLE
Nicole Kelly is a fiber artist who is known for creating minimal and timeless textile goods exclusively crafted from high-quality natural fibers. Her work explores ways of transcribing antique textile techniques into contemporary contexts. 

While she holds a degree in international business, Nicole has a long history of working with fibers and textiles. She grew up in the Black Forest region of Southwest Germany, a region known for its intricately handmade traditional clothing and linens. At an early age she became interested in textiles and learned many of the techniques she uses to this day from her mother, supported by a school curriculum that included handicraft and applied arts. Once settled in California in 2008, she deepened her knowledge by studying fashion design and pattern making in San Francisco and attending two residencies at the fashion house Carla Fernández in Mexico City.  
 
Nicole has shown her work with the American Craft Council throughout the United States and at the Carla Fernàndez flagship store in Mexico City. She has worked with hand-selected retail stores in the US to create exclusive small-batch collections. Her large-scale felt sculptures are installed throughout the Napa Valley.
 
Nicole’s happy place is her studio. Together with her husband and their daughter they live and work in Napa, CA.

ABOUT MIKEY
​Mikey holds a MFA in ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Arts and has his own fine art practice, creating paintings, drawings and sculptures based on a repetitious network of hand-drawn lines. His work is in the collections of Cranbrook Museum of Art, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Frankel Foundation for Art an din the collection of Burt Aaron, Founding Trustee of of MOCA Detroit.

With his expansive experience working with artists and designers like John-Paul Philippe, Klein Reid and Agrosy Designs in New York City and in retail/commercial design and displays for Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, Urban Outfitters, The Ace Hotel and The Standard Hotel, Mikey is an expert in working with new materials and streamlining processes.

Since the first day of YOLOTLI, Mikey has played a big role in the manufacturing of YOLOTLI's exhibition spaces, sourcing materials, helping with installations and brainstorming creative processes. 
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Photo Emma K Creative

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