Lisa L. Kriner is an associate professor and director of visual arts at Berea College in Kentucky. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Textile Technology at North Carolina State University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Fibers at the University of Kansas. Kriner’s fiber art explores the formation of identity through … Continue reading Lisa L. Kriner
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Crystal Gregory
Crystal Gregory is a sculptor whose work investigates textile structure through a variety of materials. Gregory received her BFA from the University of Oregon and was granted a Full Merit Scholarship to attend The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her MFA from the Fiber and Material Studies Department. In 2013 … Continue reading Crystal Gregory
Kristine Woods
Kristine Woods’ work is informed by three interlinking experiences – her history in performance, her teaching, and through her work as a Gynecological Teaching Associate. All three contribute in complex and subtle ways to Woods’ works with form, texture, space and the poetics of materiality. Woods’ collaborative history includes projects with Gregg Bordowitz, Susie Brandt, … Continue reading Kristine Woods
Piper Shepard
Piper Shepard (Baltimore, MD) holds a BFA in Fiber from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and an MFA in Fiber from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, … Continue reading Piper Shepard
Valeska Populoh
Valeska Maria Populoh works as an artist, educator and cultural organizer in her adopted hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Embracing a wide array of tactics, from puppetry to participatory performance, Valeska's work is motivated by an interest in healing and repair, in our relationships to each other and to the natural world. Valeska has performed at … Continue reading Valeska Populoh
Christina P. Day
Christina Day lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. She is an alumna of the University of the Arts (BFA, Crafts/Fibers ’99) and Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA, Fiber ’06). She has participated as a Resident Artist at Sculpture Space (2008), the Vermont Studio Center (2011), the first Haystack Open Studio Residency at the Haystack Mountain … Continue reading Christina P. Day
ANNET COUWENBERG
Born in the Netherlands, Annet received a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI and one from Syracuse University, NY. Telos Art Publishing published a Monograph in 2003. Received a Smithsonian Artist and Research Fellowship in 2014. Has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Gyeonggi MOMA in Ansan; HOMA Museum in Seoul, Korea; Museum of Arts and … Continue reading ANNET COUWENBERG
Susie Brandt
Baltimore based artist Susie Brandt has been progressively scouring the textile terrain since she sewed her first dress at age seven. Since the mid 1980’s, her textile based work has addressed the domestic and handmade, consumption and abundance, and relationships between textile and rural and urban landscapes. Her studio work has been included in numerous … Continue reading Susie Brandt
Liz Ensz
Liz received a BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2005), and an MFA in Fiber & Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2013), where they taught from 2014-2018 in Fiber & Material Studies, Sculpture, and the Low-Residency MFA program. At the heart of their work lies … Continue reading Liz Ensz
LM Wood
Having been educated in a variety of diverse artistic styles and practices, LM Wood successfully navigated between the domains of art, craft and technology. Her art is a blend of digital technologies and traditional processes resulting in hybrid works that elevate process and craft to "high art". Exploring the intersection between reality and history, she … Continue reading LM Wood