Josh Faught
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Josh Faught | |
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| Born | 1979 (age 45–46) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Education | Oberlin College, Fashion Institute of Technology, School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| Occupation(s) | Fiber artist, sculptor, painter, educator |
Josh Faught (born 1979), is an American fiber artist and educator, who creates sculptures, textiles, collages, and paintings.[1] His work incorporates techniques such as knitting, crochet, and weaving, and addresses topics of craft and queer history. His fiber sculptures, influenced by both domestic crafts and art styles such as abstract and color field painting, are often either hung on the wall or stretched over scaffolding such as garden trellises; they are three-dimensional but forward-oriented.[2] He is San Francisco based.
Josh Faught was born in 1979, in St. Louis, Missouri.[citation needed] Faught graduated from Oberlin College in 2001.[citation needed] He earned an AAS degree in textile and surface design from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in 2004; and an MFA degree in fiber and material studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SIAC) in 2006.[3][4]
