Labor Objects: adornment I, found calfskin work glove, gold beading, 12”w x 9”h, 2024
Catherine Reinhart is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Ames, Iowa, U.S.A. Reinhart creates fiber work and conducts social practice with abandoned textiles around themes of labor, connection, and care. She received her MFA - Textiles from the University of Kansas and a BFA - Integrated Studio Arts at Iowa State University. Reinhart exhibits locally, nationally and internationally. She has exhibited at the Department of Land Economy, Cambridge University and Cambridge Artworks, Cambridge, UK, and the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS.
Her works are in collections at the University of Mississippi and Kyoto Keika University, Kyoto, Japan. Reinhart is the recipient of numerous grants and residencies, including the Iowa Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, and Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts. Reinhart was recently honored as an Iowa Artist Fellow (2020), a Terrain Exhibitions Artist-in-Residence in Springfield, IL (2021), a recipient of the Alex Brown Foundation’s Artist-in-Residence(2022), and an Artist-in-Residence at the West Cork Arts Center in Ireland (2023).
Labor Objects: adornment X, found calfskin work glove, gold and silver seed beading, 12”w x 9”h, 2026
lightlightlightlightlightlight (installation view), Mixed Media, Dimensions variable, 2025
Labor Objects: gloves (installation view), Found work gloves gilded in gold, silver, and copper leaf, 39” h x 32’w, 2025
Inland Surveying, Fiber: free motion stitching, found quilt border, 39" h x 67" w, 2021
Relic, Fiber: Disassembled baby carrier, mended in silk with sterling silver buckles, human milk tooth, 39” h x 51” w, 2024
The Mother Rubbings, 12” w x 150’ length, “mother” grave rubbings, graph paper, 2020