Jo Stealey
Jo Stealey, Ph.D. is a professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia where she is head of the fiber program. She regularly teaches workshops, lectures on contemporary fiber and exhibits her work nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include: one person exhibitions in Granada and Benalua, Spain, Sheldon Galleries of Art, St. Louis as well as the Perlow-Stevens Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. She recently finished a set design for Eklektica, a performance art team in Spain. Her work has been included in such traveling exhibitions as, Contemporary Baskets: No Boundaries and A New Era of Sculpture, in Taiwan. Examples of her work can also be seen in Fiber Arts Design Books III-VIII as well as issues of Fiberarts, Surface Design and Shuttle Spindle and Dyepot magazines. Jo was trained as a potter and weaver, but has made sculptural baskets using handmade paper for the past 25 years. Her work encompasses both 2 and 3 dimensional formats. Her imagery draws upon her experiences through travel and everyday life.
Jo Stealey, Flying High Teapot, Twined river willow cast paper, coiled waxed linen and reed, thread acrylic, 2012
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