Andrea Arts

A Sock is a Sock is Sock

Hand-knit objects, second-hand yarn

About the artist

Andrea Arts

Andrea Arts is a textile and multimedia artist currently based out of Michigan and a recent graduate of The College of Wooster where she received her BA in Studio Art. Her work aims to explore the ways in which hand making facilitates connections between body, process, spirit, and materials and she is interested in how our relationships with objects change based on our relationships with the materials and the processes that made them.
She explores these ideas by working exclusively with repurposed and secondhand textiles and she hopes to illuminate how the nature of the connection between materials and process has immense power, trying to find mechanisms to communicate visually, verbally, and materially the ways that individual and community wellbeing are affected by our ability to make and our connections to the materials that we make with. She is currently an artist in residence at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.