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Rena Wood, Lecturer


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Rena Wood, Visiting Assistant Professor, received her BFA in Fiber from the Kansas City Art Institute and earned her MFA from the Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Working primarily with fiber materials and processes, her work explores ideas about memory through the manipulation of textiles and stitched surfaces. Rena has been a resident artist at the Craft Alliance Center of Art and Design in St. Louis, MO, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN, and at the Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts in Houston, TX. Her most recent exhibitions include, Extreme Fibers: Textile Icons and the New Edge at the Muskegon Art Museum, Gatherings: Contemporary Drawings at the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, and the Surface Design Association’s exhibition Materialities: Contemporary Textile Arts at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.

Rena Wood
Saisselin 214
(518) 580-5038
rwood@skidmore.edu

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