Lindsay Rais

In 1996 Lindsay received her BFA in Crafts/Fibers from Kutztown University. In 1997, she was the recipient of the J.A Pawling Crafts Memorial Award. In 2002, Gates acquired a Graduate Certificate in Arts Administration with a focus in Non-Profit Management from Seton Hall University in NJ.

Lindsay currently lives and works in Milford, PA. She was recently awarded an Individual Creative Artists Fellowship in 2005 by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, administered by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally. Lindsay’s work has been featured on the cover of Metalsmith Magazine and on the pages of American Craft Magazine, FiberArts and Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot Magazine and Surface Design Journal, as well as in numerous other publications.

Artist Statement

"I combine my love of textile techniques, fashion design and everyday materials to create works of texture and grace. Necklines, fasteners, ruffles, pleats and decoration of traditional costumes from around the globe and textile patterns inspire me. My obsessive nature draws me to the repetitive looping of knotless netting. One piece informs the next and the cycle repeats. I aim for the viewer to find the finished works both elegant and curious."

-Lindsay K. Gates

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