Based in Chicago, Adrienne Weiss is a multidisciplinary fiber artist and educator whose practice is rooted in the understanding that corporeal awareness, research, ritual, dreams, activism, and art-making are interdependent phenomena that work together in service of personal and collective liberation.  After many years as a self taught artist, Adrienne is now an M.F.A. candidate in Fiber and Material Studies and a recipient of the Pritzker Fellowship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  She got her B.A. in Art History and American Studies at UC Berkeley in 2005 and has been a Bay Area public school educator for the past 15 years.

In 2022 she had a solo exhibition at Applied Contemporary Craft Gallery in Oakland, CA, the gallery of her mentor, Mary Catherine Bassett. She has also participated in a handful of group and juried shows including the June Steingart Art Gallery in Oakland and Gallery Route One in Point Reyes, CA. 

As an art object maker, Adrienne’s work is a sensual and earth-facing exploration of the ecological realities of identity, embodiment, and spiritual experience. She works primarily with filamentous materials and weaving techniques.  She is interested in the life of intersecting lines, the metaphors they conjure, and finding a balance between manipulating them and letting them move in their own mystical ways.  Adrienne utilizes the visual language of dreams, visions, lineage, and symbols to create a woven world of talismanic art objects.