Meet the Artist: Virginia Burnett, Folkstore Spotlight

MEET THE ARTIST
VIRGINIA BURNETT, FOLKSTORE SPOTLIGHT
Opening Feb. 3rd at The TAUNY Center, the latest Folkstore Spotlight features textile and beadwork artist Virgina Burnett, with a meet the artist event from 1-3pm. The TAUNY Folkstore’s collection of Virginia’s work represents both her textile art and bead jewelry. Her “Garden Companion” necklace won first place in Interweave’s Bead Embroidery category for 2023.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Virginia has always been “irresistibly drawn to textiles and to things that sparkle.” As a young girl, she developed an appreciation of handcrafts from watching both of her grandmothers create a variety of beautiful textile art. She took weaving as an independent study in her senior year in college, but ultimately became fascinated with beadwork. Beadwork led to silk dying, and then to Shibori, quilting, embroidery, felting, crocheting and yarn dyeing.