Lindsay Obermeyer
“Hope is the overriding theme of all my work. It is needed to endure the daily bombardment of negative news – terrorism, recession, tsunamis, global warming. Hope requires a leap of faith, a sustained belief in a better world.”
Yarn, fiber, mixed media
The work of Christo and Jeanne Claude, The Names Project, spectacles and carnivals
Artful Networks: The Red Thread Project® and its collaborators, The Borderbend Arts Collective
Lindsay Obermeyer employs the history and metaphors surrounding textile practices to study issues as diverse as community development, environmentalism, medical ethics and gender. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally at venues including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA), the Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), the Museum of Arts and Design (NY), and Centro Colombo Americano (Columbia). Through her community art piece The Red Thread Project® Lindsay has collaborated with thousands of knitters, one jazz band, a samba band and a half dozen choreographers.
Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA), the Jewish Health Foundation (PA), and the Swedish Art Council (Sweden), in addition to many private collections. Books and mass media coverage featuring her work include PBS, Los Angeles Times, ChicagoTribune, American Craft, and The Culture of Knitting. She has earned a BFA and MFA in fiber art and an MAT in elementary education. Born in St. Louis, MO, she currently resides in Chicago with her daughter and two zany dogs. When not in the studio, she may be found puttering in the garden, experimenting in the kitchen or at a coffee shop perusing the latest travel magazines.
