Program:
Fi2025 Program Series III – Woven Strength and Healing Mind through the Lens of Textile with artist, Carolyn Carson
Date:
 
Thursday, 8/21/2025
Time: 
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (including Q&A)
Moderator:
 David Anderson, Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh
This conversation features Fiberart International 2025 artists, Carolyn Carson, whose work draws deep inspiration from nature and the enduring strength of women. Through a contemporary approach to traditional fiber techniques, Carson explores storytelling, identity, and the power carried by women across time and cultures. By reimagining traditional forms in a contemporary context, Carson creates space to reflect on continuity, healing and the generational power of women. This program invites viewers to engage with the artist’s process and explore how fiber art can sustain and nourish individual and collective resilience.
Carolyn Carson (b. 1953, United States)
Carolyn Carson is a fiber artist living in Pittsburgh, PA. She began working with textiles as a child, sewing her own clothes. Later she began to create bed and crib quilts using her own designs, and after a 15-year hiatus during which time she went back to graduate school to earn a Ph.D. in History and Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and began an academic career teaching Urban Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, she engaged in her art practice again. Although she began as a quilter, weaving is now her predominant form of artistic expression.
Two themes dominate Carson’s work: women and bodies of water, primarily the oceanic coastlines. It is along the coast where she feels the intense presence of God and an overwhelming sense of peace. And it is women, the life-giving force of society capable of wielding great strength, who have the power to maintain a healthy and vibrant society and bring some sense of sanity and peace to civilization.
After | 2024 | Weaving | 70"x144"x1" | Photos: Don Carson
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