Jaynie Crimmins: You’ve got mail…

Jaynie Crimmins: A Field Guide to Getting Lost #7, 2018, 12″ x 12″ x 2″D, shredded promotional mailings over armatures mounted on wood, framed in a shadowbox w/ museum glass

Art as protest

TextileArtist.org: What initially attracted you to textiles as a medium? How was your imagination captured?

Jaynie Crimmins: Although I do not now consider myself a textile artist, I use sewing as one of the techniques to fabricate my work. Visits to my grandparents introduced me to sewing, knitting and crocheting. And my maternal grandmother was a wizard at repurposing by cutting all of our old clothing into strips to crochet huge, functional rag rugs.