Weaver, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She studied at Columbia University, Chicago's Institute of Design, and with Alexander Archipenko and Moholy-Nagy in the 1940s. She was among the first to introduce multiple off-loom techniques to make free-standing sculptural fibre forms, and was also noted for her large three-dimensional hangings.
Claire Zeisler' is an American fiber artist (1903 - 1991) who expanded the expressive qualities of knotted and braided threads.
She studied at the New Bauhaus in Chicago with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and the Illinois Institute of Technology where she was taught by the Russian avant-garde sculptor Alexander Archipenko and the Chicago weaver Bea Swartchild.
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