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| Four of The Maya Woman sculptures from a series of nine on exhibit at La Antigua gallery |
Fiber art: Wendy Carpenter
2013 exhibit for La Antigua Gallery
Wendy’s fiber art consists of weaving, dyeing & basketry
techniques. Her art work spans over 35 years, her gallery in the United States can be viewed at www.interfibers.com
For
the past nine years Wendy has been working with craftsmen/women in Central America and Mexico. She has created
groups for women to sew clothing, tie and stitch patterns for indigo dyeing and
learn the process of re-purposing hand-woven fabric. She has also worked with men custom cutting
jadeite and quartz geodes for making jewelry.
Her Maya
Woman series on exhibit, six sculptures from a series of nine, represents
her collaboration and effort to blend cultures through art. The sculptures express
a connection from the past with the present, through form, color and tactile
material.
Wendy purchases hand-woven fabric from local indigenous women and then
re-purposes the fabric by cutting and weaving it into her sculptures. Her sculptures
depict the essence of the native women in Guatemala; walking the
streets arm and arm… persevering in today’s modern culture.
- Evergreen State college, Olympia, Washington
- University of Wisconsin, Bachelor of Arts
- Rio Grande tapestry weaving/dyeing internship, Taos, New Mexico
- Wool production internship, Boulder, Utah
- Instituto de Allende, San Miguel, Mexico
- Liturgical fiber art study grant, Wisconsin arts board
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