Alyssa Sakina Pheobus is an American artist working at the intersections of abstraction, contemplative practice, and craft. Her work engages with the transcultural sacred science of geometry and its diverse manifestations in global architecture, textiles, and arts of the book. She is influenced by the philosophy of Sufism and devotional traditions that articulate spiritual experience through creative acts. Her work braids together drawing, painting, printmaking, and textiles with her research into artisan cultures and other frameworks of embodied knowledge.
Alyssa grew up on a farm in Maryland. She attended Yale University as a first-generation college student and completed her MFA at Columbia University. Alyssa’s creative projects and research have been supported by grants and fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Center for Craft, the Mass Cultural Council, Dieu Donné, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Neiman Center for Print Studies. Her work is represented in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum, Columbia University, and private collections worldwide.
She lives and works in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she is on the faculty of Williams College.
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