Poppy DeltaDawn is a visual artist, weaver, and teacher making work with and about technologies of labor and culture. She has exhibited her work at LMRM (IL), Dimin (NYC), NONSTNDRD (IL), Underdonk (NYC), Below Grand (NYC), Zürcher Gallery (NYC), and Standard Space (CT), among others. Residencies and fellowships include Fondazione Arte Della Seta Lisio (Florence, IT), and a Media Arts Fellowship and Workspace Fellowship at BRIC Arts Media (NYC), and has discussed her work in Hyperallergic, Art Uncovered, and A Woman’s Thing Magazine, among others. She is an assistant Professor of Visual Art in Textiles + Fiber at the University of Kansas and was a Visiting Artist in Fiber & Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022-23. DeltaDawn holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, both in Fiber.
In her lecture, Poppy DeltaDawn will discuss the origins of weaving design and its implicit relationship to domination and ongoing colonial oppression. DeltaDawn will follow the thread from the woven basket to the digitally-woven cloth of the TC2 loom. In this conversation, she will consider the sentience of weaving, and will address her journey of thinking and becoming through weaving.