Claire Zeisler
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Claire Zeisler' is an American fiber artist (1903 - 1991) who expanded the expressive qualities of knotted and braided threads.
She studied at the Chicago Institute of Design (formerly New Bauhaus) in the 1950s with Eugene Dana 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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