Samuel Buelow Fiber Arts

About Samuel Buelow

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About two years ago, I returned to my home town of Los Alamos, New Mexico after spending roughly fifteen years away for school. While I have dabbled in fiber arts since a very young age, I started to pursue art seriously while working towards my PhD in anthropology at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.  I conducted my field work in Central Asia - Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan specifically.  Both countries have an amazing felt arts tradition. 

Art has always been a way of processing other issues in my life, including my relationship to my health and my gender, themes that occur both explicitly and implicitly in my work.  Art has also served as a way to connect with my ethnic heritage, a driving force behind learning the Japanese art of temari style embroidery and a fascination with Irish crochet lace making, although I have yet to seriously pursue the latter.  I particularly enjoy the social side of fiber arts, which has helped me connect with many amazing people both in the US and Central Asia.