ABOUT

Amy Stoltzfus is a textile research developer, motivated to deepen her understanding of the ever-evolving world around us through the exploration of material relationships and building encounters to reacquaint ourselves with what we think we know. Her beginnings in fine arts and fashion design established building blocks for aesthetic communication, being transposed to performance and property-based associations in wearable tech applications.

Much of her work is collaborative, being a textile technologist at the Center for Functional Fabrics (CFF) at Drexel University, where she utilized industrial additive knitting to develop proof-of-life prototypes and integration methods for new materials in academia, demo advanced textile utilization in government-funded smart fabrics, and consult on development processes and architectures for physical to digital conversion e.g. Autodesk software and Haartz automotive interiors. She continued development at Meta Reality Labs (Facebook), where she led the softgoods glove subsystem, with a focus on engineered textiles. Her art and engineering experience led to a materials research position at Apple, identifying new technologies for ID (industrial design) and leadership, developing and maintaining a novel materials library with 200+ biomaterials, and consulted on emerging product categories from health, AR, iPhone, iPad, and Laptop accessories, and new areas of bio-derived materials.