Clara Hayong Boberg
Clara Hayong Boberg (they/them) is a New England-based mixed-Korean textile artist and farmer that uses circular farm to fiber processes to embody place, identity and relationship building. Through the joining western and Korean textile techniques alongside soil centered practice, they explore cultural reclamation and land-based memory. Their practice also expands beyond physical manifestations of art into education and land stewardship as a path to create communal spaces of curiosity and joy. Their work invites people to slow down and reconnect with the land, plants, and colors around them, and to consider reciprocity as a path to healing in this precarious world.
Clara has exhibited at the RISD Museum (Providence, RI), The Museum of Work and Culture (Woonsocket, RI), the New Bedford Art Museum (New Bedford, MA), and curated a show at the Dye House (Providence, RI). They completed their bachelors in textile design alongside minors in nature-culture-sustainability studies and history-philosophy-social sciences at RISD in 2023. They have taught at many places, including the Fuller Craft Museum, RISD, Community Libraries of Providence, and various farms around New England.
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