The Artists

Karyl Sisson

Karyl Sisson’s work is part of the public collections of the American Craft Museum, New York, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Renwick Gallery at the National Museum of Art, Washington DC. She is a renowned fiber artist who received her MFA from UCLA, where she studied with Bernard Kessler. View Gallery There is a copy of American Craft with a Karyl Sisson tape measure vessel and feature article displayed in the Stonover Farm library. Karyl’s faux pots series is inspired by turn-of-the-century plastic dresser sets in which she uses old cloth tape measures to create vessel forms. She has also experimented with clothespins and zippers. In 1999, she created “Change”, the sculpture in the living room.

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