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Claire Zeisler

Fiber and Textile Artists

Claire Zeisler was an American fiber artist who lived from 1903 to 1991, known for large freestanding sculptural works built from knotted, wrapped and braided fiber, moving weaving off the loom and away from the wall entirely into floor-based sculptural form. Based in Chicago, she was one of the artists whose work helped establish fiber as a sculptural medium during the fiber art movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Kay Sekimachi, Artists

Leading figures of the same 1960s-70s American fiber art movement, frequently grouped together in survey exhibitions and literature of the movement.

Lenore Tawney, Artists

Leading figures of the same 1960s-70s American fiber art movement, frequently grouped together in survey exhibitions and literature of the movement.

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  • Gender reference
    Throughout her career Zeisler sought to create "large, strong, single images" with fiber.
  • In Group: Contemporary and Conceptual Fiber Artists, Lead
    was an American fiber artist who expanded the expressive qualities of knotted and braided threads
  • Practices: Textile Arts, Lead
    was an American fiber artist
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