Using repurposed and found materials, Canadian artist Nicole Young blurs the boundaries between textile art and painting.
New Jersey-based fiber artist Bisa Butler has had a surprisingly eventful year. The artist, who creates brilliantly colorful, large-scale quilted portraits of African Americans, debuted a solo show at ...
Fabrics and textiles remind Afghan Canadian artist Hangama Amiri of home. When she was a child, Amiri would visit her uncle’s Kabul tailor shop before school. And when her family fled Taliban-ruled ...
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Isabella Ducrot, "Eva prima del Peccato" (2021), China ink and pigments on paper, 29.72 x 54.13 inches (~75.5 x 137.5 cm) (image courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne) DIJON, France ...
Helen Parsons was being witty when she named her Instagram account the Helen Parsons Project, but she will soon have something in common with the '70s-era British band the Alan Parsons Project. She's ...
Textile Semillas, a collective artist project made by weavers, artists, and activists from northwest Argentina, coordinated by Andrei Fernández and Alejandra Mizrahi Credit: (c) Tyler Roberts I ...
It is not uncommon for artists to have a second job, a way to pay the bills until the art can. For Jenny Welden, that job was teaching ballroom dancing. “I taught over 20 styles of ballroom dance and ...
Appearing early on in the show, Birth Tear/Tear, 1982, is an extraordinary evocation of the sensations of childbirth, embroidered by Jane Gaddie Thompson as part of Birth Project. Though specifically ...
Caleb Sayan was never classically trained in fashion or textiles. Much of what he learned in the industry was from his mother, accomplished fashion artist and textile expert Andrea Aranow, who died ...
WASHINGTON, DC — By confronting old, narrow definitions of what abstract modernist art is, Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction at the National Gallery of Art makes the case that textiles ...
A work needn’t be featured on canvas to be considered art. Take a bold textile, such as a tapestry, rug, throw, drapery or a piece of antique clothing displayed under glass, which can completely ...