Fiber Art’s 2009 issue with Mandy Greer (Altered States) an extraordinary artist!

If you haven’t picked up your issue of Fiber Arts an Interweave Magazine If you’d like to escape reality for awhile, step in to Mandy’s magical world.  Visit Mandy’s Blog and Interweave Fiber Arts page to see some incredible videos of Mandy’s work.  Mandy also has a smashing Flickr portfolio.

you will want to do so today. Many Greer is an astonishing fiber artist and you will want to become familiar with her work.  There are the most incredible articles in this issue of fiber arts that you will not want to miss.

Mandy loves mythology and turns ordinary spaces into enchanted areas where we’d all like to dwell. The outfits that she has crocheted for this extraordinary journey are stunning. What an incredible sense of mystery Mandy conjures up in her mind and then her fingers create these fantastic outfits.  The outfits you’ll be seeing in this issue are garments that come together in a collaborative film and dance.

If you have never read fiber art magazine you are missing out on Mandy’s stunning crochet!  Just looking at the pictures and reading the articles will give you amazing ideas as how you can integrate this artist’s crochet techniques into your own creations.

If you’d like to escape reality for awhile, step in to Mandy’s magical crochet world.  Visit Mandy’s Blog and Interweave Fiber Arts page to see some incredible videos of Mandy’s work.  Mandy also has a smashing Flickr portfolio. 

Mandy’s Biography:

Mandy Greer is a sculptor and mixed-media installation artist with an MFA in ceramics from the University of Washington (99’), where she held a Jacob K. Javitz National Graduate Fellowship. Mandy received a BFA in ceramics and a BA in English from the University of Georgia (96’) and went Phi Beta Kappa. In Washington, she has shown her work at The Bellevue Art Museum, The Tacoma Art Museum, and The Kirkland Arts Center; and in Seattle at The Henry Gallery, 4Culture Gallery, Soil Gallery, Consolidated Works and Priceless Works Gallery. She has also shown at the Tampa Museum of Art, Fl and Bucheon Gallery in SF. Her work is included in the books The Best of New Ceramic Art (1997), Fashion is Art (2003), as well as Soil Gallery, 10 Years (2005). Mandy’s work is featured in the video!  She received a 4Culture Special Projects Grant (Seattle) and an Artist Trust Fellowship (Seattle) in 2004. In 2006, Mandy completed a commission of a permanent installation for the Children’s Center in the Rem Koolhaas-designed Seattle Central Library as part of the “Library Unbound” series. She was featured in a 4-person show in San Francisco at The Lab, in 2006. Also in 2006 she had a room-sized installation at the Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, funded by a grant from 4 Culture and a City Artists Grant from the City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, which was also seen at Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle. In 2007, Mandy made a debut in theatrical design with Seattle’s Book-It Repertory Theatre’s production of A Tale of Two Cities. In 2008 Mandy had her first solo museum show at the Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington, debuting her largest installation to date, Dare alla Luce, along with a survey of her work from the past decade, supported in part by a 2007 4Culture Special Projects Grant and 2008 Artist Trust GAP grant. A full-color catalogue accompanied the exhibition. She was also nominated for the Portland Museum of Art’s Contemporary Northwest Artist Awards for 2008. In 2009, Dare alla Luce will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Craft, in Portland, Oregon.