Sherri Lynn Wood is making her own way as an artist, improvisor, and quiltmaker in Oakland, CA. She combines her knowledge of craft, social practice, and systems-centered theory to reacquaint people with personal agency, community, love and the basic skills of living. She has been making quilts since 1989 and is the developer of Passage Quilting, a hands-on, bereavement process utilizing improvisational patchwork and the clothing of the beloved. She has been blogging about craft as a life practice since May 2010.
Sherri has an MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a Master of Theological Studies from Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Awards include the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors, 2012; NC Arts Council Artist Fellowship, 1996, 2006; The MacDowell Colony Fellowship 2005, 2006. Her work and quilts have shown at the NC Museum of Art, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (NC), San Francisco Museum of Craft & Folk Art, Asheville Art Museum (NC), Quilt National (OH) and numerous other exhibitions spaces across the country. She is a frequent instructor for Penland School of Craft and the Modern Quilt Guild.