Ana Lisa Hedstrom | |
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Born | 1943 Detroit, Michigan |
Alma mater | Mills College |
Known for | Fiber art |
Website | analisahedstrom |
Ana Lisa Hedstrom (born 1943, Detroit) is an American fiber artist. She is best known for incorporating traditional Japanese shibori into her work. [1] She attended Mills College. [2] She continued her studies at Kyoto City University of Arts. Hedstrom learned the traditional dying technique of shibori from Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada at a workshop at the Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts. [1]
Her work is in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, [3] the Museum of Arts and Design, [4] the Oakland Museum of California. [5]
In 2003 Hedstrom was named a fellow of the American Craft Council. [6] [7]
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