Textile Artists Today

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Textile Artists Today

by Kristine Schomaker

September is Textile Month as part of Textile Arts | Los Angeles.

I remember the first time I saw the work of Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yayoi Kusama. These artists blew me away with their use of every day materials and traditional women’s work of sewing and weaving to create fine art objects that would be talked about in the Art Historical Canon for many years to come. They inspired and empowered many artists working today to experiment, play and create using whatever is at hand.

Of course, We can look at the powerful quilts of Harriet Powers whose work from the late 1800s empowered the fabric and design movement along with the second wave of feminism in the 1970s which brought domestic art into the artists every day practice.

This article isn’t about making any new revelations in the world of art involving textiles. It is about sharing the work of contemporary artists who may not be known. With the pandemic, artists have been experimenting more and more with items they have in their homes. It is natural to go back to craft work such as sewing and weaving and finding materials around their home they can play with.

This article has also been crowd-sourced. I already had a file on my computer of Textile artists to watch, but I wanted to know more. I posted on Facebook that I was looking for artists who use textiles in their work. I left the question open to interpretation because in today’s art world textile art is more broad than ever. My community did not disappoint.

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Yasmine Diaz

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Vojislav Radovanović

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Tina Linville

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Theresa Knopf Morgan

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Terry Arena

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Tanya Aguinaga

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Tamara M. Valdry

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Swinda Reichelt

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Susan T Kurland

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Susan Henry

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Stephen Frost

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Shinique Smith

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Sherri Lynn Wood

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Stefanie Girard

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Shelley Heffler

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Sandra Vista

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Sandra Lauterbach

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Samuelle Richardson

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Sabine Reckewell

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Ruth Katzenstein Souza

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Rosalyn Myles

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Robb Putnam

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Renne Emiko Brock

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Rebecca Smith

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Raghubir Kaur Khalsa

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Polly Jacobs Giacchina

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Peggy Wiedemann

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Patricia Ayres

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Niki Livingston

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Orly Cogan

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Nike Schroder

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Natalie Baxter

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Michelle Schwengala

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Michelle Montjoy

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Michele Jaquis

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Michael Rohde

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Melanie Walker

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Marleene Rubenstein

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LJ Roberts

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Liz Young

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Liz Nurenberg

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Liz Collins

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Leonard D Greco Jr

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Lea Feinstein

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Laurel Paley

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Krysten Cunningham

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Kimberly Morris

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Kayla Cloonan

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Katie Ruiz

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Kathy Nida

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Kate Kretz

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Kate Bieschke

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Karen Hochman Brown

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Karen Hampton

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Julia Maria Sinelnikova

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Julia Couzens

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Joy Ray

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Johanna Crowell Norry

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Jiseon Lee Isbara

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Jim Arendt

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Jessica Poser

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Jeffrey Gibson

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Jane Brucker

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Jamia Weir

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Jamea Richmond-Edwards

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Irma Sofia Poeter

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Jackie Bell Johnson

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Gina Herrera

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Gloria Kirk-Hanna

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Gena Rynae Smith

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Fielden Harper

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Gail Fraser

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Fafnir Adamites

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Ellis Siler

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Ellen Schinderman

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Ellen Phillips

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Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor

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Elana Herzog

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Doshi

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Diedrick Brackens

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Diane Williams

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Diane SIlver

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Dia Bassett

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Dellis Frank

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Debra Scacco

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Debra Disman

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Debbie Carlson

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Dawn Ertl

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Darlynn Susan Yee

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Cudra Clover

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Connie Rohman

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Coco Hall

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Cindy Rinne

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Christy Matson

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Chelsea Boxwell

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Charlotte Bird

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CHARI MYERS

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Cha Cha Magida

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Carrie Burckle

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Carole Frances Lung Frau Fiber

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Carol Shaw Sutton

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Carol Powell

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CAROL NILSON

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Carly Chuback

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Camilla Taylor

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Cameron Taylor-Brown

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Bonnie J Smith

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Blue McRight

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Betsy Packard

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BEN CUEVAS

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Beanie Kaman1

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Baha Danesh

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Ashley V Blalock

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Ashley Bowman

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Ashley Blaylock

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Arezoo Bharthania

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Antonia Price

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Annie Seaton

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Annie Coe

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Annet Couwenberg

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Anne M Bray

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Ann Morton

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Amy Kaps

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Amie Adelman

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Alexis Zoto

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Alanna Marcelleti

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Ahree Lee

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A Laura Brody

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