Pauline Verbeek

PAULINE VERBEEK, Professor in the Fiber Department at the Kansas City Art Institute and a native of the Netherlands, received her BFA (1982) in Fine Art from the Maryland Institute and her MFA in textile design from the University of Kansas (1995). Ms Verbeek’s academic and Fine Art careers have garnered her numerous awards including the Kansas City Art Institute’s Distinguished Achievement Award (2014), Excellence in Teaching Award (2007), Outstanding Special Project Award (2003) and the 2008 Kansas Arts Commission Master Fellowship in Visual Art/Fine Craft. Her creative research involves all areas of constructed textiles but is primarily focused on weaving. Through structure, material, image and/or surface treatments, she demonstrates that weaving is unique in building an image. She is one of the leaders in the use of new technologies in hand-weaving and has also conducted research using industrial Jacquard and Dobby looms in The Netherlands and the US. Her industrially woven work crosses boundaries between Fine Art and applied textiles and is directed toward structurally textured fabrics for apparel as well as home-furnishings. Her work has been exhibited extensively in both national and international venues including France, Austria, Germany, Japan, Korea, Norway, and Australia.