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Polly Barton
Born
New York City, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationBarnard College (BA)
Fashion Institute of Technology
Parsons School of Design
Northern New Mexico Community College
OccupationTextile artist

Polly Barton is an American textile artist.

Biography

She was born in New York City.[1] As a student, she studied art history at Barnard College (class of 1978) and has lived and traveled in Paris, Florence, and Rome. In 1981, she moved to Kameoka, Japan, to study with master weaver Tomohiko Inoue, living in the religious heart of the Oomoto Foundation. She returned to New York in 1982 and continued to weave on her Japanese tsumugi silk kimono looms.[2]

She shows her woven silk ikat paintings on both coasts,[3] and is collected by the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and by important private collectors. Her work has been published in numerous magazines including Hali Magazine, FiberArts, Surface Design Journal and American Craft. She is a member of the Textile Society of America, Friends of Fiber Arts International, the Surface Design Association and the Textile Arts Alliance of Santa Fe.

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Public collections

Honors

Lectures and workshops

Education

References

  1. ^ "Silk Weaver – Santa Fe, New Mexico". Polly Barton. Retrieved 2012-10-31.
  2. ^ Regina Connell (2011-01-03). "DesignCraft Heroine: Polly Barton". handful of salt. Retrieved 2012-10-31.
  3. ^ "Polly Barton « American Tapestry Alliance". Americantapestryalliance.org. 2012-10-19. Retrieved 2012-10-31.
  4. ^ "Museum as Muse: The Textile Museum Collection Inspires New Works From Contemporary Artists in "Sourcing the Museum" « Textile Museum Press Room". Pressroom.textilemuseum.org. Archived from the original on 2013-04-15. Retrieved 2012-10-31.
  5. ^ "Raven's Ridge". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2020-12-26.

Further reading

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  1. ^ "Gallery". Gail Martin Gallery. Retrieved 2012-10-31.
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