SHERI SCHUMACHER

Sheri Schumacher is a textile-based artist and designer. Her work explores narratives about cultural landscapes and records a sense of place through observation and material investigation. Informed by relationships between interior and exterior conditions, her textiles move beyond being just a cloth surface and become a space with defining enclosure systems such as boundaries, edge and territory.

Discovery through the act of making is integral to her work, finding beauty in imperfection from discarded garments and linens with a history of use. The repurposed cloth provides a site for conversation between surface and support, intention and unpredictability and resistance and fragility. Dialogue with the cloth’s tendencies is explored through hand sewing, piecing and mending, a choreography between maker and material.

Multicultural experiences of her childhood, living in Europe and the Washington DC metropolitan area, informed her creative path. Cross-disciplinary studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she earned an MFA in 3D Design, and teaching interior architecture provided a natural progression to a studio practice focused on the convergence of art, design and craft. Her textile works, ranging from an intimate scale to larger site specific works, are exhibited nationally and held in private and public collections.

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