Fiber Artist, Cora Nimtz
Category: Thing Southern Ephemera
coranimtz@gmail.com
Cora Rose Nimtz (b. 1991) is a textile artist based in New Orleans. Her work employs generational quilting, embroidery, and appliqué skills to capture intimate still-lifes and local atmospheres of her Southern upbringing. She expanded her knowledge of composition and portraiture by adapting a technique called “thread painting,” a method that combines techniques she learned from loved ones, in which she recreates familiar faces, gestures, and objects using thread against ornamental quilt blocks. Drawing inspiration from the world around her, Cora is drawn to the mundane and the weight that objects carry in our lives. Objects become imbued with feelings and memories. ‘Things’ become totems of our lives, and I choose to elevate them through hyper- realistic embroidery and quilt blocks with names that carry their stories.
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