Featured Artist : Jeanne Anthony Designs

I am a fiber/textile artist, teacher, and manager of my own textile business, Jeanné Anthony Design. I studied textiles, fashion, and painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, where I received my BFA. I went from the construction of conventional garments for everyday wear, to wearable art, to the fine art of painting my designs on paper. In addition to creating and showing my own work, I've held workshops for adults and students. My work has been shown and sold at several places. In 1990, I was selected as a MED Manufacture of the Year for Chicago.

The study of textile teaches us that natural fibers have played a very important role in man's life since the very beginning, used as clothing, furniture, shelter, embellishment of the body, objects of art, and as a way of expressing himself. Man has used natural fibers from plants, animals, and later, made synthetic fibers. At Jeanné Anthony Designs, it is my intention to expose a large public audience to the visual art experience. My aim is to introduce a color vocabulary that allows one to feel that nature has been imitated gracefully. When a person wears a Jeanné, they turn a 2-D form into a 3-D one.

The choice of wearable art as a medium allows my work to be viewed internationally, without barriers. My work has been on display in every continent, and too many countries to name at this time. My clients have brought back numerous stories about their Jeanné experience during their travels. Hopefully, when a person meets someone wearing a Jeanné, they will momentarily experience art, whether it is positive, or not. To me that keeps the creative light burning.

Jeanné Anthony, 

Jeanné Anthony Designs