Kelly Riek is an emerging craft artist creating nonfunctional textiles with an eight-harness floor loom. A 2022 graduate of Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts Program, she began her weaving practice after a decade spent in the field of retail visual display and previous formal training in fashion design, sculpture, and audio art undertaken at Parsons School of Design and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Currently based in the small community of Lake Junaluska, NC, Riek creates work under the business name Achstetter and has been exhibited throughout the eastern United States, including regionally at the Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts, the Southern Highland Craft Guild’s Folk Art Center, and the Mint Museum Uptown.
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