Diane Yu is an artist and educator who discovers the intersections of drawing, weaving, and natural dyeing through the joining of these processes and how they inform one another. After spending her formative years in the suburbs of D.C., she attended college in Baltimore, MD where she earned her BFA (painting) and MAT from MICA (2013/4). For seven years, Diane taught at Garrison Forest School (Owings Mills, MD), maintaining multiple roles to include Visual Art Department Chair, Painting/Drawing instructor and served as a dorm parent. She currently resides in Chattanooga, TN where she continues to empower young women through making and art at Girls Preparatory School. Within her studio at Clearstory Arts, Diane actively cares for a 50 liter fermented indigo vat, saves loose thread, and weaves with ink drawings.

Artist Statement:

I capture moments of connection, becoming and seeking through thread, dye, ink and fabric. We navigate in unseen spaces that encompass such moments of connection, becoming, and seeking. Dancing, in solitude and in collaboration, moving fast and sometimes slow. It’s a process. My practice is a ritual with textiles, dressing the loom, weaving a grid, stitching patterns of shibori, and informing quick and intuitive responses in drawing and collage in pursuit of creating unseen space.

email: dianeyunna@gmail.com

IG: @yunnatextiles