Poppy DeltaDawn is an artist, writer, and teacher making work about her world and the communication between modernity and cultural and traditional making - primarily with textiles and fiber.
Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Dimin (NYC), STNDRD NONSTNDRD (Sauget, IL), Ortega y Gassett Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Below Grand (NYC), Zürcher Gallery (NYC), Standard Space (Sharon, CT), among others.
Residencies and fellowships that she has participated in are numerous and include a Media Arts Fellowship (2017) and Workspace Fellowship (2019) at BRIC Arts Media (Brooklyn, NY). She also has participated in residencies at The Tallgrass Artist Residency (Matfield Green, Kansas), Caldera Arts (Sisters, OR), the Studios at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), ACRE Residency (Steuben, WI), and received a full fellowship from Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT).
Poppy has also participated in workshops at Fondiazione Arte della Seta Lisio (Florence, IT), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Penland School of Craft, and has curated several exhibitions, most recently with New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and New York Live Arts (NYLA) as part of their Immigrant Arts Mentorship Program, and at Geary Contemporary, the gallery where, until 2022 she served as Associate Director in New York City and the Hudson Valley.
Her work has been written about in Site Unseen, Hyperallergic, Dezeen, and Maake Magazine, among other publications.
She is also the author of RATIO: Digital Weaving to Change the World, designed by Katie Leonard (Williams), produced and published in collaboration with LMRM (Chicago) and For the Birds Trapped in Airports (Los Angeles).
Poppy holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, both in Fiber. Prior to beginning her current appointment of Assistant Professor of Visual Art in Textiles + Fiber at the University of Kansas, DeltaDawn was a Visiting Artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022-2023. She has also taught courses in the Fiber & Material Studies at Tyler School of Art and the Maryland Institute College of Art.
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Learn more about my work here:
︎ KU News: February 2025
︎ Art Uncovered Podcast: June 2024
︎ Hyperallergic: June 2023
︎ Maake Magazine: 2022
︎ A Woman’s Thing: 2021
︎ Art Uncovered Podcast: June 2024
︎ Hyperallergic: June 2023
︎ Maake Magazine: 2022
︎ A Woman’s Thing: 2021