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.