Karen Hampton (weaver)
Karen Hampton | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1958 Los Angeles, CA |
| Education | 2000 MFA: UC Davis, Davis, CA; 1992 BA: New College of California, San Francisco, CA |
| Website | https://www.kdhampton.com/ |
Karen Hampton (born 1958) is a Los Angeles-based textile artist.[1]
Education[]
Starting at the age of eight, Hampton learned and practiced sewing and embroidery at home.[2] After high school, she attended Laney College for one year. She would later earn a degree in art and anthropology from the New College of California. Hampton continued her education as a fiber artist while apprenticing to master weaver and dyer Ida Grae, and later completed her MFA at UC Davis.[3]
Work[]
Hampton works in a combination of textile media, most prominently weaving, dyeing, embroidery, and surface design, as well as printing using archival images. Her pieces often reference American and African American history, as a response to her view that "the history of female slaves and early American textile production had been forgotten."[3] Since learning of Flora, an ancestor of Hampton's who had been freed from slavery in the late 1700s and later became a landowner, she has incorporated family history into her art, in addition to her own life experiences including voluntary busing as a child.[4]
In addition to her artwork, Hampton produces scholarly research on the history of textile production by African American women during slavery.[5]
Hampton has shown solo exhibitions at institutions including the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, and the in San Francisco.
Awards[]
- Instituto Sacatar Fellowship, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 2015
- Purchase Award, Prince George's County Parks & Planning, 2011
- Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, 2008
- Career Development Grant, Marin Arts Council, Marin County, CA, 2008
- Ellen Hansen Prize, UC Davis, Davis CA, 2000
- Jastro Shield Research Fellowship, UC Davis, Davis CA, 1999
References[]
- ^ Coker, Gylbert Garvin. "A Textile Artist's Historical and Anthropological Mission". International Review of African American Art Plus. Hampton University Museum. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ^ White, Sara (2019-03-16). "Interview With Karen Hampton". Wovenful. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ^ a b Logan, Liz (March 25, 2016). "Social Fabric". American Craft Magazine. American Craft Council. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ^ Hampton, Karen (September 2012). "Stitching Race". Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings. 691.
- ^ Hampton, Karen (2000). "African American Women: Plantation Textile Production from 1750 to 1930". Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings. 770.
External links[]
- Textile artists
- African-American women artists
- American weavers
- Living people
- 1958 births
- 21st-century African-American people
- 20th-century African-American people
- 20th-century African-American women
- 21st-century African-American women
- University of California, Davis alumni