Associate Professor, Fibers
Fuyuko Matsubara’s artwork involves dyeing and weaving. Her development of an original weaving technique that involves a combination of painted warp and painted weft is internationally recognized along with her other worldly spiritual imagery. Her current series of weaving is entitled “A Phase of Light,” and her current series of silk paintings is entitled “Seeds of Light.”
Fuyuko was born in Sapporo, Japan. She studied at Musashino Art University in Tokyo. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in over 170 venues. Her work has appeared in numerous books and magazines such as Fiberarts, Surface Design Journal, and American Craft. She has received individual artist grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Hand Weavers Guild of America Awards, as well as first prize in the Fiberart International.
M.F.A. in Fiber Art, Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan