Karen Hampton
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Art Fields - Crafts - Design - Visual Arts Website: http://www.kdhampton.com 4222-31st St Mount Ranier, MD 20712 
Karen Hampton (MFA 2000) is a mixed media textile artist whose work is steeped in oral history and is an expression of the narrative. A storyteller at heart, she imparts conceptualized tales about the “other” in society. She views herself as a vehicle for ancestral voices to transcend history and remain as historical memory. The canvas of her work is a coarsely woven cloth that is aged and imbued with conceptualized images and text from a forgotten part of the American story. Her intention is to embed the cloth with the hopes and visions of African American lives, telling their stories from a maternal perspective. Hampton has been exhibited nationally since 1993 and most recently received the prestigious Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation. Hampton is currently teaching at Howard University, Washington, DC. Education InformationTextile workshops / parties for all ages:Cross Cultural Textile Design; batik, shibori tie dye, fabric printing, photo transfer. Weaving lessons if you have your own loom. |