Featured Artist
Claire Kiester
Claire Kiester is a fiber artist, printmaker and public artist from Chapel Hill, NC. She completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and now resides in Charlotte, NC. She uses fiber and crochet techniques to transform and activate interior and exterior space. She aims to reduce her waste as an artist by utilizing recycled materials and eco-friendly production methods. In recent projects, she explores pattern and repetition as a visual tool and performative process of making. This work investigates the systems within our society and the residue they leave behind.
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Kiester's work has been featured in galleries such as McColl Center, Goodyear Arts, Frank Gallery, The Compound Gallery in Emeryville, CA, and The LeRoy Nieman Center in Chicago, IL. She has created many large-scale public art installations throughout North Carolina including pieces for The Charlotte International Arts Festival, Charlotte SHOUT!, and Uproar Festival of Public Art in Chapel Hill, NC.
Kiester currently works as a teaching artist at Studio 345, an afterschool program for at-risk youth, and is about to begin an artist residency at McColl Center.
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