Frau Fiber: artist, activist and nomadic textile worker
My great grandmother was a tailor, my grandmother was a seamstress and accomplished in the art of domestic craft. I was taught by my grandmother to sew my own clothes. I worked as a professional seamstress, cutter, pattern maker, production manager and designer. These experiences, coupled with the current globalization of the apparel industry and it’s effects on day-to-day living, are the foundation for my art practice. A methodical investigation into the human cost of the mass production and consumption of the apparel industry is applied to performative projects that address issues of labor, value and time through the thoroughly hand-made construction and salvaging of garments. Developing a global nomadic practice where I undertake the work of making transparent the production practices of the apparel industry, displaying them in open spaces such as storefronts, nomadic production facilities and personal exchanges. My project based artistic practice stems from qualitative research questioning the how and why of societies engagement with the globalized commerce of mass production and consumption in the apparel and textile industry. This process of researching and questioning gleans information and imagery which allows me to re-contextualize garment production. These activist performances instigate the audience in a dialog of domestic craft production memories, and the possibility of the formation of alternative textile and garment economies.
Stop Shopping Start Sewing!
Frau Fiber
Surviving Weimar Look Book
Synchronized Sewing Squad
SL MODE: One Size Fits All
Re-Dressing New Orleans
Sewing Rebellion