Sept Evening Meeting & Program: “The Stuff the World is Made Of”: the Bauhaus Textiles Movement in North Carolina & Its Influence Today with Hannah Watson
The creative freedom offered and encouraged through the Bauhaus movement has inspired generations of weavers and designers. Beginning at the loom in Germany with Gunta Stölzl and progressing to Anni Albers at the Black Mountain College in western North Carolina, the Bauhaus movement sparked and carried joy and innovation across decades that
About the Speaker
Hannah Watson (b. 1991, South Carolina) is a weaver, dyer, & mixed media artist whose work is driven by deep diving into the psychology of human development and her connection to place, rhythm, color, and pattern. As her grandmothers were both textile artists and her parents jointly ran an architectural firm, her childhood was heavily influenced by cloth, architecture, and drawing. After earning her B.S. in cultural anthropology and costume design from the College of Charleston, she worked with a women’s weaving cooperative in the Sacred Valley, Peru in 2014 and then returned to South Carolina to work with an indigo grower & dyer. Hannah pursued natural dyeing, weaving, and collage education at Penland School of Craft and John C. Campbell Folk School in western North Carolina and completed a Professional Craft degree in Textiles at Haywood Community College in 2019. In 2018, she won a design award through the Handweavers Guild of America and has shown her work at galleries across the Carolinas, including Cloth Fiber Gallery, the Fine Arts Center, the Folk Art Center, and the Asheville Area Arts Council. She currently lives and works in Portland, OR as a textile artist and as an instructor at both WildCraft Studio School in Portland and Wool Friends in Seattle.
Over the years, I have developed new methods of setting up and weaving doubleweave that I feel make it accessible and understandable for all weavers. As much as I love practicing the art of doubleweave, nothing brings me greater joy than sharing it with others. I travel extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad, teaching workshops on doubleweave, color, and geometric design. My techniques and systems for working in doubleweave can also be found in my book The Weaver’s Studio: Doubleweave Revised and Expanded, and in my online courses
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