Sheila Hicks: The Universal Language of Textiles
About this episode
The episode explores the artistic journey of Sheila Hicks and her impact on the perception of textiles as an art form.
The boundaries between fine art and craft have blurred dramatically over recent decades, and few artists embody this shift more powerfully than Sheila Hicks. At 90 years old, this Nebraska-born, Paris-based artist has spent over six decades transforming how we understand textile as an artistic medium. Stepping into Hicks' world means discovering an artist whose work combines modernist color theory (learned directly from Josef Albers at Yale in the 1950s) with techniques gleaned from indigeno...
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