Marilou Schultz (b.1954 Navajo) --- Untitled (Unknown Chip) 2008
(wool) Marilou Schultz (born November 6, 1954) is a Navajo weaver, artist, and educator. She has exhibited her weavings nationally and internationally, including at the documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany.
Schultz is a math teacher as well as an artist, and she is known for her science and data-inspired weavings.
Although she began weaving as a means of financial support, her love of the craft has evolved into a method of innovation and sharing her culture with others. She utilizes traditional methods learned from her mother such as plain weave, twill and double twill, and raised outline weavings, though she has also developed unique dyeing techniques with both aniline and natural dyes. Natural dyes that she uses includes cochineal and indigo. She frequently uses wool from Churro sheep raised by her family.
In 1994, Intel commissioned Schultz to weave "Replica of a Chip," which depicted a Pentium microprocessor, a computer circuit board, and referenced the historical workforce of Navajo women assembling circuit boards at an Intel factory located on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico. (Wikipedia)
Marilou Schultz (b.1954 Navajo) --- Untitled (Unknown Chip) 2008
(wool) Marilou Schultz (born November 6, 1954) is a Navajo weaver, artist, and educator. She has exhibited her weavings nationally and internationally, including at the documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany.
Schultz is a math teacher as well as an artist, and she is known for her science and data-inspired weavings.
Although she began weaving as a means of financial support, her love of the craft has evolved into a method of innovation and sharing her culture with others. She utilizes traditional methods learned from her mother such as plain weave, twill and double twill, and raised outline weavings, though she has also developed unique dyeing techniques with both aniline and natural dyes. Natural dyes that she uses includes cochineal and indigo. She frequently uses wool from Churro sheep raised by her family.
In 1994, Intel commissioned Schultz to weave "Replica of a Chip," which depicted a Pentium microprocessor, a computer circuit board, and referenced the historical workforce of Navajo women assembling circuit boards at an Intel factory located on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico. (Wikipedia)