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Part collector, part craftsman, part designer, Abigail Newbold utilizes a domestic vocabulary to create objects and installations that examine issues of comfort, survival and portability. Born in Boston, she received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Arts and her MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Newbold, whose work has been published in both Dwell and American Craft, exhibits internationally and continues to collaborate on local design-build projects as well as fostering commissions for quilts, furniture, and furniture cozies among other things. She has taught at the College for Creative Studies and the Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Maine while working as the Exhibitions Preparator at The Cranbrook Art Museum.

She is an inaugural recipient of a 2009 Kresge Artist Fellowship awarded by Kresge Arts in Detroit, a program of The Kresge Foundation. This winter she will be a 2010/2011 Resident Fellow at Sculpture Space.

Newbold currently lives and works in Michigan.