Sept Morning Meeting & Program: Felt Sensory Experiences, Connecting Across Time & Space, Walking & Weaving: An Artist Talk by Hannah Watson
Hannah Watson will share a presentation, both digital and felt/seen, of her woven works to the group and talk about her personal experiences with weaving as an art form. She will share how drawing with yarn through combining tapestry techniques with these weave structures has, in the past, offered an immensely therapeutic path through sticky emotional depths, aka weaving her way through her “dark night of the soul.”
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.
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