Artist Statement:

Hillary Steel's textile art is held in private and public collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery, The Textile Museum in Washington, DC, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanties, the American Embassy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and the American Consulate in Tijuana, Mexico. Steel is a recipient of a 2018 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and a Fiscal Year 2021 artists and scholars award from the Montgomery County Arts and Humanities Council. She recently wrote and published Ikat Traditions: The Mexican Jaspe Rebozo, based on years of work in Tenancingo, State of Mexico with master weaver Evaristo Borboa Casas. The book details the process of creating a woven Mexican jaspe rebozo, a unique and wonderful example of the ikat resist-dye techniques practiced for centuries in many places and cultures around the world.

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