# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Fireside Chat: Fiber Artist Laura Bowman
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Laura Bowman is a self-taught fiber artist living in East Tennessee. She creates knotted sculptural tapestries by combining her unique adaptation of an old macramé technique with a modern textile aesthetic using wool, cotton, and acrylic fibers. Her work is personally meditative and she hopes that viewers will spend time getting lost in the intricacies, chaotic energy, and design.

Join her for a casual fireside chat about her art process and intention, current work, what it means to be a slow artist, choosing not to make art a business, showing in galleries, and some Q&A.

She will also be demonstrating her unique fiber arts technique during this chat.

How to register: No registration needed. Drop-in.

Cost: Free and open to all. Food/beverage purchases encouraged to support teahouse nonprofit.

Location: Living room/Fireplace, 1st floor

Laura began her art education in welded metal sculpture over thirty years ago. She often used thin metal rods, anything that looked like a beautiful, fine line, welding them together into solid objects. When she finished school, and no longer had access to welding equipment, she began to explore other ways of making art, while also raising three children. She started painting, and again focused on lines; always using dominant, dark outlines around colorful shapes. Painting on wood turned to painting on cloth, embellishing the work with machine stitching, hand-embroidery, and quilting. So began a journey into the world of textiles which included a focus on weaving, basketry, and macramé. This exploration of fiber art brought her back to sculpture as she wove wildly on large wire warp armatures, built complex knotted vessels and intricate sculptural tapestries made solely of combined yarns; continuing her use of the ever-present and fine, single line.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/johnson-city/fireside-chat-fiber-artist-laura-bowman/200029242443923
- **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts, kids
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 46

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Johnson City
- **state**: TN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 117 W. Fairview Ave, Johnson City, TN, United States, Tennessee 37604
- **lat**: 36.31921
- **long**: -82.35621
- **full address**: 117 W. Fairview Ave, Johnson City, TN, United States, Tennessee 37604

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Fireside Chat: Fiber Artist Laura Bowman being held?
  - **A:** Fireside Chat: Fiber Artist Laura Bowman takes place on Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm at 117 W. Fairview Ave, Johnson City, TN, United States, Tennessee 37604.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Fireside Chat: Fiber Artist Laura Bowman?
  - **A:** Fireside Chat: Fiber Artist Laura Bowman is organized by The Philosopher's House.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Fireside Chat: Fiber Artist Laura Bowman is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Johnson City, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Fireside Chat: Fiber Artist Laura Bowman sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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