Danielle Burke’s current work focuses on weaving histories, processes, and ephemera. Through her studio practice and archival research she hopes to better understand the boundaries of authenticity, the role of craft within a traditional practice, the influence of landscapes on material culture, and the ways that textiles can be read as texts.
b. 1993, Denver, CO
lives in Carrboro, NC
from.the.loom@gmail.com
Education
University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill
MA in Folklore
Chapel Hill, NC
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
Maryland Institute College of Art, 2015
BFA dual degree in Fiber & Humanistic Studies
Baltimore, Maryland
Pre-College, Kansas City Art Institute, 2010 Summer
Photography Concentration
Kansas City, Missouri
Awards & Honors
2021 Summer Graduate Research Fellowship (UNC)
2015 Windgate Fellowship Award
A national, nomination-based grant administered by the Center for Craft.
The fellowship identifies ten graduating college seniors each year with exemplary skill in craft.
2014 Humanistic Studies Department Award (MICA)
Lenore Tawney Scholarship (MICA)
2013 Barbara L. Kuhlman Foundation Scholarship
Fiber Department Achievement Award (MICA)
2012 Academic Achievement Award (MICA)
2011 Trustee Scholarship (MICA)
Research Experiences
2019 Ginseng Internship, Spring 2019
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Final essay evaluated Asheville ginseng dealers from 1850 to the present through
their classified advertisements.
2015 Windgate Fellowship
Researched traditional, southern Appalachian coverlet weaving through studio work,
archival & library research, oral history interviews, writing, and teaching.
2015 Undergraduate Thesis, MICA
Tradition, Craft, and the Question of Authenticity Regarding Appalachian Coverlets
Relevant Professional Work
2018 - 20 Program Coodinator
MA in Critical Craft Studies
Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC
2016 - 20 Administrative Aid & Gallery Attendant
Center for Craft, Asheville, NC
2019 The Biltmore House
Historical Interpreter, Asheville, NC
Textile Teaching
2019 Waste Not, Dye Au Naturel
Center for Craft and Chow Chow Culinary Festival
Dyeing w/ kitchen waste workshop
Natural Dye & Weaving Workshop
Local Cloth & Center for Craft partnership
Tied in with Exhibition “In Times of Seismic Sorrows”
2018 Family Fiber Workshops / Kids Fiber Art Classes
various times throughout the year
Local Cloth, through Residency Program
Teaching Assistant
2021 Myth and History in American Memory
Professor Timothy Marr, UNC
2020 Intro to Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill
Professor Joseph Decosimo
2015 Spinning Southern Fibers, Southeast Fiber Forum
Annie Hall
2014 Woven Imagery
Professor Kristine Woods, MICA
Introduction to Fibers
Professor Aaron McIntosh, MICA
2013 Fiber Arts Lead Teacher, assistant for other art mediums
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts, Aurora, CO
Free after-school and summer arts program for K-12 students
Residencies & Workshops
2018 Experimental Looms
Taught by Lesli Robertson
Arrowmont School for the Arts & Crafts
Gatlinburg, TN
18-19 Local Cloth Resident Artist
Asheville, NC (April 2018 - January 2019)
2017 Arrowmont Pentaculum
Textiles Studio
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2016 The Weaving Mill
August Artist-In-Residence
Chicago, IL
Studio Assistant Positions
17-18 Matt Tommey
Basket Maker, Asheville, NC
2013 Viviane le Courtois
Artist, Denver, CO
2012 Christopher R. Perez
Photographer, Denver, CO
Exhibitions
Most Recent:
2019 Appalachia Now!
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Coined in the South
Mint Museum, Young Affiliates of the Mint, Charlotte, NC
Of Threads, On Place:
A Selection of Historical and Contemporary Textiles from Buncombe County
Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, NC
Curator (through Point-of-View curator program)
Solo Shows
2016 Studies: Appalachian Coverlets
Ironwood, Denver, CO
Group Shows
2018 Community Cloth:
Sourcing Material : Making Cloth : Filling a Need
Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, NC
Exhibiting Artist & Co-Curator with fellow Local Cloth Resident Artists
2017 Craft with a Stranger
Center for Craft, Asheville, NC
We Are American Craft
Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, NC
Fold Unfold: An Exhibit of Contemporary Coverlets
Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA
Object as Poet
Center for Craft, Asheville, NC
2016 Material as Medium
Target Gallery
Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
Standard Incomparable
facilitated by Helen Mirra
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2015 WORK: MILLING / METALWORKING / PRINTING / WEAVING
BFA Commencement Exhibition
Mount Royal Station, Baltimore, MD
2014 Twist & Turn: A Weaving Exhibition
co-curator & exhibiting artist
Middendorf Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Modern Icons: A Pop Up Show
Brown Memorial Church, Baltimore, MD
Get Small 2014
a shrinky dink show
SessionSpace, Oakland, CA
2013 Merging Spaces: A Sculpture Exhibition
Middendorf Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2012 Sustainability Colloquium
Fox Building, Baltimore, MD
b. 1993, Denver, CO
lives in Carrboro, NC
from.the.loom@gmail.com
Education
University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill
MA in Folklore
Chapel Hill, NC
Expected Graduation: Spring 2022
Maryland Institute College of Art, 2015
BFA dual degree in Fiber & Humanistic Studies
Baltimore, Maryland
Pre-College, Kansas City Art Institute, 2010 Summer
Photography Concentration
Kansas City, Missouri
Awards & Honors
2021 Summer Graduate Research Fellowship (UNC)
2015 Windgate Fellowship Award
A national, nomination-based grant administered by the Center for Craft.
The fellowship identifies ten graduating college seniors each year with exemplary skill in craft.
2014 Humanistic Studies Department Award (MICA)
Lenore Tawney Scholarship (MICA)
2013 Barbara L. Kuhlman Foundation Scholarship
Fiber Department Achievement Award (MICA)
2012 Academic Achievement Award (MICA)
2011 Trustee Scholarship (MICA)
Research Experiences
2019 Ginseng Internship, Spring 2019
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Final essay evaluated Asheville ginseng dealers from 1850 to the present through
their classified advertisements.
2015 Windgate Fellowship
Researched traditional, southern Appalachian coverlet weaving through studio work,
archival & library research, oral history interviews, writing, and teaching.
2015 Undergraduate Thesis, MICA
Tradition, Craft, and the Question of Authenticity Regarding Appalachian Coverlets
Relevant Professional Work
2018 - 20 Program Coodinator
MA in Critical Craft Studies
Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC
2016 - 20 Administrative Aid & Gallery Attendant
Center for Craft, Asheville, NC
2019 The Biltmore House
Historical Interpreter, Asheville, NC
Textile Teaching
2019 Waste Not, Dye Au Naturel
Center for Craft and Chow Chow Culinary Festival
Dyeing w/ kitchen waste workshop
Natural Dye & Weaving Workshop
Local Cloth & Center for Craft partnership
Tied in with Exhibition “In Times of Seismic Sorrows”
2018 Family Fiber Workshops / Kids Fiber Art Classes
various times throughout the year
Local Cloth, through Residency Program
Teaching Assistant
2021 Myth and History in American Memory
Professor Timothy Marr, UNC
2020 Intro to Folklore, UNC-Chapel Hill
Professor Joseph Decosimo
2015 Spinning Southern Fibers, Southeast Fiber Forum
Annie Hall
2014 Woven Imagery
Professor Kristine Woods, MICA
Introduction to Fibers
Professor Aaron McIntosh, MICA
2013 Fiber Arts Lead Teacher, assistant for other art mediums
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts, Aurora, CO
Free after-school and summer arts program for K-12 students
Residencies & Workshops
2018 Experimental Looms
Taught by Lesli Robertson
Arrowmont School for the Arts & Crafts
Gatlinburg, TN
18-19 Local Cloth Resident Artist
Asheville, NC (April 2018 - January 2019)
2017 Arrowmont Pentaculum
Textiles Studio
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2016 The Weaving Mill
August Artist-In-Residence
Chicago, IL
Studio Assistant Positions
17-18 Matt Tommey
Basket Maker, Asheville, NC
2013 Viviane le Courtois
Artist, Denver, CO
2012 Christopher R. Perez
Photographer, Denver, CO
Exhibitions
Most Recent:
2019 Appalachia Now!
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Coined in the South
Mint Museum, Young Affiliates of the Mint, Charlotte, NC
Of Threads, On Place:
A Selection of Historical and Contemporary Textiles from Buncombe County
Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, NC
Curator (through Point-of-View curator program)
Solo Shows
2016 Studies: Appalachian Coverlets
Ironwood, Denver, CO
Group Shows
2018 Community Cloth:
Sourcing Material : Making Cloth : Filling a Need
Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, NC
Exhibiting Artist & Co-Curator with fellow Local Cloth Resident Artists
2017 Craft with a Stranger
Center for Craft, Asheville, NC
We Are American Craft
Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, NC
Fold Unfold: An Exhibit of Contemporary Coverlets
Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GA
Object as Poet
Center for Craft, Asheville, NC
2016 Material as Medium
Target Gallery
Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
Standard Incomparable
facilitated by Helen Mirra
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2015 WORK: MILLING / METALWORKING / PRINTING / WEAVING
BFA Commencement Exhibition
Mount Royal Station, Baltimore, MD
2014 Twist & Turn: A Weaving Exhibition
co-curator & exhibiting artist
Middendorf Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Modern Icons: A Pop Up Show
Brown Memorial Church, Baltimore, MD
Get Small 2014
a shrinky dink show
SessionSpace, Oakland, CA
2013 Merging Spaces: A Sculpture Exhibition
Middendorf Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2012 Sustainability Colloquium
Fox Building, Baltimore, MD