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Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts: Located in on a farmstead from the 1850s, the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts & Fiber Arts opened in 2001 and maintains a collection of over 8,000 pieces of art. The museum is "dedicated to creating, preserving and teaching fiber arts." [52]
Wisconsin Veterans Museum: Waupaca: Waupaca: Central Sands Prairie: Military [78] Wustum Museum: Racine: Racine: Lake Michigan: Art: Also known as Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, branch of the Racine Art Museum, exhibits of fine art and craft media, also 13 acres of park, a one-acre formal garden Wright Museum of Art: Beloit: Rock ...
She shows her woven silk ikat paintings on both coasts, [3] and is collected by the Art Institute of Chicago, [4] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and by private collectors. Her work has been published in numerous magazines including Hali Magazine , FiberArts , Surface Design Journal and American Craft .
Claire Zeisler (April 18, 1903 – September 30, 1991) was an American fiber artist who expanded the expressive qualities of knotted and braided threads, pioneering large-scale freestanding sculptures in this medium.
Anne Wilson, A Chronicle of Days, 1997-98.Collection 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. Anne Wilson was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1949. At 15, she attended George School, a Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania, where she received training in feminist theory and the philosophies of passive resistance through the study of Gandhi's teachings on non-violent politics.
In 2017, her work was included in the Dynamic Diversity exhibition at the Texas Quilt Museum. [8] In 2019, she had work featured in the Fiber Art in the Digital Age show at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts. [9] In 2020, Crump's quilt Cracked Justice was exhibited at the Textile Center in Minneapolis. [10]
Lenore Tawney (born Leonora Agnes Gallagher; May 10, 1907 – September 24, 2007) was an American artist working in fiber art, collage, assemblage, and drawing. [1] [2] [3] She is considered to be a groundbreaking artist for the elevation of craft processes to fine art status, two communities which were previously mutually exclusive.
Sherri Smith (born 1943) is an American fiber and textile artist, weaver, sculptor, and educator. [2] She is one of the pioneers within the field of fiber art since the late 1960s. [ 3 ] Smith taught for many years at the University of Michigan (UMich) in Ann Arbor, where she is the Catherine B. Heller Collegiate Professor Emerita .