Bennie Krause is a Seattle-born artist and poet currently residing in Maryland. An Alumni of Maryland Institute College of Art, they graduated in 2018 with BFA in Fibers. Working primarily with tactile processes of making, such as dyework, felting, and embroidery, Bennie Krause’s pieces often utilize the meeting of poetics and the human form. Informed by their identity as a disabled and LGBT person, much of their work is tinged with themes of nostalgia or longing, and explores the complicated nature of intimacy, desire, and bodily relationships. Currently, Bennie Krause is working as a teaching artist as SAORI NYC, a New York Nonprofit founded to teach and share weaving with disabled communities.

You can contact Bennie by email at bkrause@benniekrause.com or follow them on Instagram.

For a copy of their CV, click here.

About Me photo taken by Nat Raum.