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Jeanne Akita

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Illusions Lab Gallery

"Fusing modern fashion illusions with ancient hand felting art"

Inspired by the mesmerizing beauty of nature’s shapes and textures, while influenced by the Russian classical arts, artist Jeanne Akita creates unique seamless and reversible wearable art by fusing her art vision with ancient felting technique. Like 3D flexible fiber sculpture, each one-of-a-kind piece is meticulously created, using only hand agitation, water, soap, and hand-selected...

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... sustainable loose fibers such as the finest Merino wool, Tussah silk, Flax, as well as raw lamb’s fleece from the small Idaho farm. Her artistic grand finale implements shibori dye method and brush painting on felted garments to incarnate a work of art that celebrates the beauty of inner harmony and peace, penetrates one’s deepest senses, and stirs the hearts of both wearer and viewer.

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Through the last 6 years, Jeanne has won the awards at the at the top art festivals (Kimball Arts Festival Best in Show 2018 and 2019), shown at the international and US fashion weeks (New York, Denver, Vancouver, Sundance film festival, and others). Her wearable art appeared on the covers of the art and fashion magazines such as Picton, New Face, Surreal Magazine, filmed by Bravo TV in January 2020. 2019 Art Shows List : NY Collective in New York and Sun Valley, Lincoln Center Craft NY, Utah Arts Festival, Cherry Creek Denver, Art in the Rockies, Kimball Arts, Palo Alto, Sausalito and others.