Arrowmont Craft Conversations: Kenya Miles
September 25, 2020
ARROWMONT CRAFT CONVERSATIONS is a video series that highlights artists in the Arrowmont community. Our partnership with Arrowmont faculty and community members has contributed to Arrowmont’s longevity, growth as a school of arts and crafts, and our reputation as an institution that welcomes everyone. The artists who appear in this series exemplify the characteristics that represent the School — they span generations and are among the most experienced, capable, and innovative in the arts and crafts world.
Each of the artists in this series offers insights into their work and their reflections on being a part of the Arrowmont community. Today, we feature Kenya Miles – a fiber artist, natural dyer, and student of the life-long work of weaving. She will be a 2021 instructor at Arrowmont.
Kenya Miles is a lead gardener at the Natural Dye Initiative in Baltimore City and is the artist and alchemist at Traveling Miles Studio, a one-woman textile and fine art studio utilizing sustainable materials from earth pigments to natural dyes. Her work honors ancient practices while drawing on a distinctive contemporary voice. Miles has traveled the valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico to the red clay roads of Ntonso, Ghana to develop her process with years of wandering and apprenticing around the globe.
