Artist Bio
Yasemin Isaacs is a fiber artist and BFA candidate at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, specializing in weaving, felting, knitting, and soft sculpture. She grew up in cold and snowy Minneapolis, surrounded by women who lovingly taught her to value careful craftsmanship. She carries this affinity for generational craft into everything she makes. Isaacs currently serves as the Fibers Major Representative in student government at MassArt, and has worked as a teaching assistant for both the Felting and Wool, and Intro to Papermaking classes. She served as a co-curator for the 2025 Fibers All School Show, and the Felt That show at MassArt. Most recently, Isaacs’ work was the recipient for the 2025 Barbara L. Kuhlman Foundation Scholarship, and the SGA Award for her work in the 2026 Fibers All School Show.
Isaacs’ work was most recently included in a two-person exhibition at Fenway Gallery titled Inhabited Thought Forms, and in a show she co-curated, titled Farm to Form at the Watertown Free Public Library. She hopes to continue exploring how to communicate ideas through soft domestic objects, and to collaborate with other makers through curation and creation.
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Artist Statement
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As a fiber artist, my work is deeply rooted in tactility, and material lineage. I weave together my own personal histories through the depiction of homely interior spaces and objects. An object can serve as a fuzzy vessel for memory; carrying feelings of loss, grief, or familial tension. I go through my life collecting the energy of other people on my back, and depositing it one by one onto cloth, stitching together each part of myself into a whole. This could take the form of weaving, felting, embroidery, or soft sculpture. Images of the house have been of special interest to me ever since I was young, spending hours studying the intricate patterns of the fabric on a couch, or texture on a rug. Through writing, speaking, and sampling, I collect memories of a specific room, or object containing palpable memory, and then create a piece using that information. My practice is reflective, but also exploratory, never sticking to just one medium at a time. I aim to use recycled material whenever possible, often collected from loved ones. Through my meditative process of objectmaking, my hope is that the viewer can time travel with me, as I collect artifacts along the way.
Contact
I'm always looking for new and exciting opportunities. Let's connect!
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