Fiber Alum Poppy Delta Dawn Featured in Hyperallergic Pride Month Series
Chicago-based artist Poppy DeltaDawn (MFA Fiber 2016) was recently featured by Hyperallergic in their 2023 Pride Month series featuring transgender or nonbinary emerging or mid-career artists. DeltaDawn currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, where she works with students to emphasize that “weaving is a human right.”
Her own work is inspired from a range of sources such as subversive embroidery samples of the 19th century, New Deal-era motivational posters, the “un-automation” of weaving, and an appreciation of the “fragmented bodies” (particularly that of sheep) we clothe ourselves with, and more. Highlighting the inherent “transness” of crafting raw fleece into woven cloth, and the textile industry’s transition from a laborious, women-dominated trade to mass production is essential to her practice.
DeltaDawn complements her works with instructional videos, she considers tools, which provide context for her weavings, a physical autobiography, and a platform to explore vulnerability.
Learn more:
Poppy DeltaDawn Unravels Fiber Art’s Queered Histories – Hyperallergic
