Karen Hampton

Keynote Address: Ghosts and Ancestors: Why I Weave

Karen Hampton, MFA, Artist Weaver, and 2022 American Craft Council Fellow, is recognized as a trailblazing artist in the textile community for her work broadening the visibility of textiles made by black and brown artists worldwide. Karen, an artist weaver, has made the invisible visible most of her career. From her early work in the 1990s to the present, she has been telling personal stories with her artwork and promoting others in the field.