A Norwich University of the Arts graduate, British textile artist Mia Sylvia has built a, quite literally, monumental career off her emotional connection with fabric — a material the creative ...
- Well, I've been painting since I was about three, but I started painting on silk about two years ago. And my grandmother told me stories about making silk from the silk worm, which is fascinating ...
If you’ve recently visited a biennial or attended an art fair, museum, or gallery show, you’ve probably noticed that textiles are showing up everywhere amid a surge of interest in the medium. It has ...
More artists are working with fiber, according to Hong Kong curator Takahashi Mizuki, but it 'is still an underrated medium.' Exhibition view: “Lining Revealed – A Journey Through Folk Wisdom and ...
Near the beginning of “Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper” at the Blanton Museum of Art, a 1968 photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson portrays Albers with her husband, Josef, whose “Homage to the ...
Her monumental wall hangings and soft sculptures incorporated fiber-based materials, like goat hair, as part of a “new tapestry” movement. By Nina Siegal Ritzi Jacobi, a European pioneer of ...