Linda Jurkiewicz lives in Kansas City and began working with textiles in 2005. She credits her upbringing as a first generation Ukrainian-Croatian for her “make-do” attitude and her delight in upcycling repurposed materials especially “woman’s work” such as dish towels, sheets, household items and clothing. Her consequential fiber work incorporates soft sculpture, word play, idiom, embroidery, wall hangings, plush form, sequential dioramas, and installations which delve into the cultural roles of women in America over the last century; roles that are
changing, and roles that she pushes viewers to reexamine, to trade nostalgia for
empowerment.