Closing Reception
for Artist Residency
at Helms Design Center
Friday, September 21st from 7pm – 9pm
Culver City, CA - Textile Arts LA announces their first artist-in-residence, Aneesa Shami. There will be a closing reception for the residency at Helms Design Center on Friday, September 21st from 7pm to 9pm. Provided access to the Helms Design Center, Shami has six weeks to further explore her current body of work. Much of her work centers around using upcycled materials, such as donated yarns, scrap fabric, and recyclable magazines. Through layers of material, color, and texture, Shami creates mesmerizing compositions that hold the viewer’s attention. As a fiber artist and independent researcher, Shami also conducted three fiber workshops that introduced the history of weaving, knitting, and quilting with hands-on instruction for these techniques.
About Aneesa Shami
Aneesa Shami received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in both Fiber and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute. Since moving to Los Angeles, Shami has worked as a Gallery Archivist Intern at L.A. Louver, as a Studio Assistant to Tanya Aguiñiga, and as the Gallery Manager for Branch Gallery, a local fiber arts space in Inglewood. She has attended Mildred’s Lane as a Fellow for the Attention Labs: The Order of the Third Bird in 2015. Shami works in her studio in Hawthorne creating commissioned works, researching textile and fiber history, and completing larger pieces in her body of work.
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