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Butler's quilts are featured in art books such as Journey of Hope: Quilts Inspired by President Barack Obama (2010) [42] and Collaborations: Two Decades of African American Art : Hearne Fine Art 1988-2008 (2008), [43] and on websites such as Blavity [14] and Colossal. [28] In 2019, she was a finalist for the Museum of Art and Design's Burke ...
Sheila Hicks at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, 2016. Photograph by Cristobal Zanartu. From 1959 to 1964 she resided and worked in Mexico; She moved to Taxco el Viejo, Mexico [7] where she began weaving, painting, and teaching at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) at the invitation of Mathias Goeritz who also introduced her to the architects Luis Barragán and Ricardo Legorreta ...
Althea McNish CM FSCD (15 May 1924 – 16 April 2020) was an artist from Trinidad who became the first Black British textile designer to earn an international reputation. [3] ...
Gunta Stölzl (5 March 1897 – 22 April 1983) was a German textile artist who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus school's weaving workshop, where she created enormous change as it transitioned from individual pictorial works to modern industrial designs.
Bernat Klein's textile designs were inspired by the Scottish landscape. He deconstructed images from nature into flat planes of colour, and created oil paintings with a technique called impasto , in which oil paint is applied on a board in thick layers with a palette knife to yield dynamism. [ 16 ]
Sonia Delaunay (French: [sɔnja dəlonɛ]; 14 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a French artist born to Jewish parents, who spent most of her working life in Paris.She was born in the Russian Empire, now Ukraine, and was formally trained in Russia and Germany, before moving to France and expanding her practice to include textile, fashion, and set design.
Gwendolyn (Gwen) Ann Magee (August 31, 1943 – April 27, 2011) was an African-American fiber artist.Learning to quilt in the middle of her life, Magee quickly became known in the world of fiber art for her abstract and narrative quilts depicting the African-American experience.
Lucy Sparrow (born 8 July 1986) [1] [2] is a contemporary artist originating from Bath, England. She works at the intersection of contemporary art and craft setting the agenda for textiles within the urban art scene. She works mainly with felt and wool, creating life-sized replicas in addition to oversized soft versions of existing objects. [3]