Meet the Maker: Lauren Chang of Interstitial Spaces
51 E Main St
Trumansburg
NY 14886
Lauren Chang (Interstitial Spaces, LLC) is a textile specialist living in Chicago, who spins, dyes, weaves, and writes about textiles. She holds a B.A. in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University and an MA in Textile Conservation from the Textile Conservation Centre in the United Kingdom. Lauren worked as a textile conservator at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She trained in weave structures with Milton Sonday and through the Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens in Lyon, France. Now Lauren focuses on making cloth and balances her academic training with her relationships within the fiber and maker communities. Her work centers around natural materials and the shepherdesses and farmers who produce them. In 2018 she was featured in Weaving: Contemporary Makers on the Loom (Treggiden 2018: Ludion). She also participated on the panel of the book launch at the Tate Modern in London, which coincided with the opening of the exhibition Anni Albers. Her work and writing have also been featured in Spin-Off magazine published by Interweave Press. In November 2017 she presented a coverlet project at Cloth Cultures: Future Legacies of Dorothy K. Burnham, a conference at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada.
Learn more about Lauren’s work at her website http://www.interstitial-spaces.com/ and on Instagram @interstitialspaces.
