About

Eliza Guion (b. 1997) is a visual artist, writer, and educator from Abenaki territory (Vermont, USA). Through textile, print, and sculpture works formed with abundant and discarded materials, she explores land histories and possibilities. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from Colorado College, completed a weaving concentration at the Penland School of Craft, and has worked in community food access and local agriculture for many years. Her work has been exhibited at MUNKA Studio, The People’s Museum Limerick, An Chéad Tine Gallery, and published in Quare Éire. 

My research is led by an instinctive interest in material; I am largely focused on working with weedy or abundant plants and waste stream objects. In doing so, I question how attending with care to overgrowing, undesirable, or polluting material might shape perceptions of home, place, and belonging. This practice is a way of responding to my own deep grief and overwhelm in the face of climate crisis and settler un-belonging. While collaborating with various media, I ground myself in textile handicraft traditions and the frameworks of care, maintenance, and repair that they exemplify.