About

Marie-Michele Fillion spent fifteen years working in cultural management — leading organizations, directing programs, building the infrastructure through which art reaches its public. It was meaningful work. It was also work done at a distance from the making itself.

The pivot came quietly. An encounter with weaving — first online, then at the loom — that settled something. The moment she began to weave, she understood it immediately and completely. Not as a hobby, not as a side practice, but as the work she intended to do for the rest of her life.

She trained in textile arts in Québec, specializing in weaving, and founded Fillion Atelier to bring handwoven throws into homes where objects are chosen for life.

Her background in cultural management informs everything about how Fillion Atelier operates: the positioning, the understanding of what makes an object worth keeping. Her practice as a weaver informs the rest — the choice of fiber, the structure of the weave, the decision to work in small limited editions rather than at scale.

Fillion Atelier is based in Montréal.