Laurie Carlson Steger
Laurie Carlson Steger began studying weaving at craft schools and earned a BFA in Textile Design from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA, USA. After reading about a new loom and workshop opportunity in a weaving magazine in 1995, she joined the TC jacquard loom workshop at Montclair State College, New Jersey. She graduated from the MFA Artisanry/Fibers (1998) at UMASS Dartmouth, focusing on weaving with fiber optic lighting and consulted in the field of smart textile applications. She has taught textile science at Boston area colleges and led workshops/lectures at weaving guilds, New England Weaving Seminar, Textile Society of America, HGA’s Convergence, and Complex Weavers Seminars. She is an exhibiting member of South End Wovens studio in the SoWa artist district of Boston, MA.
