Deborah Kruger

Spring Small Works Collection

Spring Small Works Collection Affordable Art for your home or office  My Small Works Collection seems to have struck a chord! When I posted it for the first time in December, four pieces sold right away!  The genesis of this collection was making my environmental art affordable to folks who want to live with it. The […]

2024 Logos Exhibition in Perugia, Italy

2024 Logos Exhibition in Perugia, Italy Exhibition Title: LOGOS About: Italian curator, Barbara Pavan, has assembled an exhibition in Perugia of 9 textile artists who are all working with text. The title of the show, Logos, has historical meetings that stretch back through history. By working with text, even if it is not strictly narrative, […]

2024 LOGOS Exhibition in Perugia, Italy

2024 LOGOS Exhibition in Perugia, Italy 10 Fiber Artists using Text On my way back from exhibiting in Venice last April, my assistant Sandra and I stopped in Milan to meet Curator Barbara Pavan and an Italian fiber artist Michela Cavagna.  It was one of those memorable meetings where conversation and ideas spilled forth unabated […]

Icelandic Textile Center Residency

September 2024 – One month residency Like most artists, I spend an inordinate amount of time applying for grants, shows and residencies. I get more rejections than acceptances and have developed a thick skin, so usually the rejections just roll off my back.  I recently learned about the Icelandic Textile Residency (ITC) and sent them […]

Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Interview

10 Questions with Deborah Kruger My latest interview was in the Al-Tiba9 Magazine. This journal is based in Barcelona, Spain. The interviewer created ten excellent questions and reading this interview will take you on a deeper dive into my textile background and my art process. Along the way, I have a chance to talk about […]

Shoutout North Carolina Interviews Deborah Kruger

Environmental Artist talks about Risk As you know, I have a studio in Durham, NC where I have family and many textile colleagues. Shoutout North Carolina contacted me for an interview and you will find it very personal. If you want to know more about aspects of my art practice, like challenges and inspirations, please […]

Small Works Collection by Deborah Kruger

Affordable Art for your home or office Although I frequently post blogs about my larger abstract pieces, I also make lots of smaller artwork that is quite affordable. Check out my new Small Works Collection page on my website. This page is dedicated to showing you my new intimately-scaled collection of pieces that would look […]

Text & Textiles: Two-person show at the Shelley Heffler Gallery

On view through December 25, 2023 I met Shelley Heffler in 2016 when she won a free artist residency at 360 Xochi Quetzal, an artist and writers residency in Mexico that I directed (now under the leadership of Bethany Ann Putnam). We felt an instant bond and had a lot of overlaps in our lives […]

2024 Text & Textiles-Solo Show at Block Gallery in Raleigh, NC

Exhibition Title: TEXT & TEXTILES  About: TEXT & TEXTILES, a solo exhibition of Deborah Kruger’s environmental artwork will be on display at the Block Gallery in Raleigh, NC from December 4, 2024 – April 25, 2025 TEXT & TEXTILES focuses on Deborah Kruger’s current body of work, which is motivated by the extinction of bird […]

2023 Women Eco Artists Dialogue (WEAD) Online Exhibition

Deborah Kruger-Red Feather Basket 2 Danielle Kunkel Bye Bye Birdies, 2022 Exhibition Title: Kinship with Birds in Plight and Flight About: Women Eco Artists Dialogue (WEAD) presents Kinship with Birds in Plight and Flight, an online exhibition celebrating conservation successes and work that signals the need for urgent interventions. With birds globally facing challenges due […]