Deborah Kruger

2023 World of Threads Festival in Toronto, Canada

Deborah Kruger Represents Mexico The World of Threads Festival, curated by Dawne Rudman and Gareth Bate, opens October 12, 2023 and runs through December 17, 2023 at the Queen Elizabeth Park Community & Cultural Center in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, a suburb of Toronto. This well anticipated Festival features 426 artwork by 115 artists from 15 […]

2023 Invisible Matters: Kruger & Pribich Show in NYC

A project of ArteMorbida’s ‘Follow the Thread’ Invisible Matters is a duo exhibition with Deborah Kruger and Michael Pribich at Big Sky Studios in Chinatown/New York. The show is a part of the multi-location Follow the Thread celebration of contemporary textile art sponsored by ArteMobida, the Rome-based fiber magazine, and curated by Barbara Pavan. Kruger, […]

2023 The Arte Laguna Prize Exhibition In Venice

The Back Story With encouragement from my friend Doug Winter, I applied for the Arte Laguna Prize (ALP), an international exhibition with a strong commitment to Sustainability. To my amazement, I became a finalist in the Sculpture and Installation category.  Since there was no funding to bring my large-scale work to Venice, I got approval […]

2023 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 […]

2023 Deborah Kruger Wins Arte Laguna Prize

And I’m a winner! Like most artists, I spend weeks every year writing grant proposals for artists, applying for artist prizes and exhibitions, and scouting for residencies. I hate thinking about how much time this adds up to but it’s A LOT! Plus, many of these opportunities charge fees for entry. And the competition is […]

Flight patterns: Deborah Kruger’s feathered work migrates worldwide

Artist in front of Redwing Interview by Rachel Ellner for the FIT School of Art and Design I always give so much credit to Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City for launching me as a fiber artist. It was with great delight that I welcomed Rachel Ellner to interview me for the […]

2023 Kruger Wins Keller Prize

Grand Prize Winner! On the last day of 2023, I saw an Instagram post in my feed that said that I had won the Grand Prize for the Keller Prize.  I couldn’t believe my eyes! I even had to ask a friend to check her Instagram and look up @‌thekellerprize and tell me if I […]

Explore Art Magazine Interviews Deborah Kruger

Renee L. Rose takes a deep dive into Kruger’s Environmental Art This one-hour interview with Chicago-based Explore Art Founder, Renee L. Rose, is a rich source of information about environmental artist Deborah Kruger. Ms. Rose leads the artist on a conversational journey that covers her early inspiration, her evolution as an environmental artist, key issues […]

2024 Valtopina Biennale in Umbria, Italy

Exhibition Title: RADICI, METAMORFOSI, MESCOLANZE, II Biennale Internaziionale di Fiber Art  Contemporanea About: Italian Curator, Barbara Pavan, has assembled an international exhibition of 34 fiber artists who are exploring concepts of time through the media of contemporary fiber, textiles and embroidery art. Dates: September 6 – December 8, 2024 Location: Museo del Ricamo e del […]

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 […]