Claire Zeisler
Claire Zeisler
American, 1903–1991
She studied at the New Bauhaus in Chicago with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and the Illinois Institute of Technology where she was taught by the Russian avant-garde sculptor Alexander Archipenko and the Chicago weaver Bea Swartchild. In the 1950s she created traditional loom weavings, but by 1962 she left the loom to make freestanding fiber sculptures.
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Eastern Band of Cherokee, born 1964
