About

James Gardner is a weaver, handspinner, and writer living on Hinono’eino’ Biito’owu’, Tséstho’e, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱, and Očeti Šakówiŋ Land. He practices fiber art and writing as death work and fiber magic. He has three primary series of work. The Woven Language Series is his effort to construct a woven language from his family’s fiber history and from the surrounding natural world. The Let the Fiber Speak Series is an attempt to create large-scale repetitive fiber installations from numerous minimal tapestries made from his handspun Navajo Churro yarn. His Death Work Series is his effort to make fiber vessels that may open pathways for the departed to continue on to the great flow. He writes prose to accompany much of his work to share the insights he has gained from his fiber art with the craft community. Check out the Journal or his instagram to read some examples of his written work.