bio
Born and raised in Ventura County, California, Piper Snowber is a Senior attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on a Distinguished Scholars Scholarship. Piper is a fiber and sculpture artist, working across disciplines that blur the lines between body, land, material, and memory. Piper has exhibited work at Banaras Cultural Foundation in Varanasi, India, Watershed Art and Ecology in Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, WomanMade Gallery in Chicago, the Museum of Ventura County, and Studio Channel Islands Art Center in Camarillo, California. They have been involved with various environmental justice organizations, including the Pesticide Free Soil Project and Climate First Replacing Oil and Gas (CFROG), as well as community gardens and small-scale farms. They are currently working as an intern at Narrow Bridge Arts Club in Chicago, IL.
statement
This is a practice that hovers between the body and land, that, like spring, always returns to sunlight, water, desire, birdsong. This is a practice that exists at the edges of the horizon, fading in and out of sight, where poetry, time, sorrow, sustenance, and longing converge. Here, weaving is a language itself – a way of articulating time, distance, and place. Natural dye acts as a liminal space between the alive and the dead. A porous veil of stories and prayers, the pigment becomes a mode of recording a landscape, allowing soil to speak where memory slips. The work never arrives in one place, or at one time. It moves through abstraction and legibility, unsynchronized, allowing the viewer to fill in what’s out of focus, what’s just beyond reach. This is a practice that requires attunement, slowness, and wonderment about the Big, the Small, and the Unseen.
contact
piper.snowber@gmail.com