SWAIA ARTIST Profile

Pauline Tsosie

Name
Pauline Tsosie
Tribe
Navajo Nation
Main Classification
Textiles
Classification #2
Classification #3
Website

SWAIA Booth Numbers

Summer 2024
WA E 401
Winter 2024
4
Pauline Tsosie
Portfolio Example & Artist Statement

Upright Navajo loom and tools used by my mother in the last century; graph paper, calculator, color wheel, measuring tape; continuous warping; re-spun commercial weft (wool-mohair blend for size consistency, softness, and strength); unique plain weaving integrated with the crossed-weft technique (developed by artist through trial and error, improving each year), Pick and Pick, single interlocking, hatching; meditation and dreamwork--these I use as a fiber artist (also a retired licensed counselor). Almost 20 years ago I began connecting art with spirituality, encouraged by my mother who said I was too "bilaganna" (Caucasian) in my thought process and a male Navajo teacher who also emphasize use of the right (global) and left (linear) brains and spirituality while weaving.

2024 Portfolio

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