{"id":44014,"date":"2021-06-29T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=44014"},"modified":"2021-06-27T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T19:53:07","slug":"feature-artist-teresa-hays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/feature-artist-teresa-hays\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature Artist: Teresa Hays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_44016\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44016\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44016\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Feature-Artist-combo.jpg\" alt=\"Feature Artist: Teresa Hays\" width=\"1200\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Feature-Artist-combo.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Feature-Artist-combo-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Feature-Artist-combo-1024x559.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Feature-Artist-combo-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Feature-Artist-combo-810x442.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Feature-Artist-combo-1140x622.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-44016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Hays, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re born into a family of makers and growers, you can\u2019t help but become a part of it all. \u201cI was inspired by my family,\u201d says fiber artist Teresa Hays, \u201cand I happily created side by side with them as a child. I learned to sew at a very young age. I made my first dress when I was five. It was for a doll, but it counts!\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>Hays grew up on the Mississippi River in northern Illinois. The remote rural area where she roamed in her young years is now part of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. \u201cMy childhood was a quiet one in a small river town, with plenty of time spent in the outdoors and by myself,\u201d she says. \u201cMost of my aunts, my mother and my grandmother practiced traditional textile arts, and my grandfather spent his retirement crafting and selling birdhouses and whirligigs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At five years old, Hays also had her own garden. She grew marigolds, a natural dye plant. \u201cNow I use plants that I grow and that are available on our property (in Tennessee) and on roadsides to make nontraditional prints on fabrics,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44018\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44018\" class=\"wp-image-44018\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Feature-Artist_-Teresa-Hays-Skirt.-Teresa-Hays-artist-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Feature-Artist_-Teresa-Hays-Skirt.-Teresa-Hays-artist-copy.jpg 994w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Feature-Artist_-Teresa-Hays-Skirt.-Teresa-Hays-artist-copy-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Feature-Artist_-Teresa-Hays-Skirt.-Teresa-Hays-artist-copy-636x1024.jpg 636w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Feature-Artist_-Teresa-Hays-Skirt.-Teresa-Hays-artist-copy-768x1236.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Feature-Artist_-Teresa-Hays-Skirt.-Teresa-Hays-artist-copy-954x1536.jpg 954w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Feature-Artist_-Teresa-Hays-Skirt.-Teresa-Hays-artist-copy-810x1304.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-44018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Hays, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She obtained college degrees in education, instructing first in traditional classroom settings and, later, teaching independently with the regional Girl Scout council and in local art museums. \u201cFor many years, teaching workshops to children was my primary income,\u201d says Hays. \u201cIn 1990, I began selling marbled fabrics at craft fairs in Nashville and was soon traveling throughout the Southeast and Midwest attending craft fairs with marbled accessories and clothes. I maintained a production marbling studio for almost 25 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, she uses silkscreens and thickened dyes in nontraditional ways to make prints on fabrics\u2014mostly silks, but, lately, cotton and linen also. \u201cThe process involves making a rubbing with thickened dyes on silkscreens,\u201d Hays says. \u201cI use plant materials against varying textures to create the images on the silkscreen. I allow the silkscreen to dye and then I use more thickened dye to push the dried image off the screen. I have always loved exploring color and this process gives me the opportunity to play with a color in a very exciting way.\u201d She then prints and paints with dye over and around the silkscreens until she considers the yardage finished.<\/p>\n<p>She sometimes employs a technique called discharge or reverse dyeing, bringing in elements of Japanese shibori to create patterning. With the finished fabric, she creates women\u2019s clothing and accessories, often revisiting and reworking past designs to play with variations. Customer requests often inspire new lines. \u201cI consider myself a visual omnivore,\u201d Hays says, \u201cconstantly taking in colors, patterns and designs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Increasingly concerned with textile waste, Hays says her designs tend to be simple shapes, \u201ccomfortable and easy to wear.\u201d They are clothes that \u201cwould look good on anyone,\u201d says Millie Davis, Southern Highland Craft Guild\u2019s director of marketing. \u201cI love the boxy shapes, the bright colors, the way her pieces hang like an abstract painting,\u201d Davis adds.<\/p>\n<p>When the pandemic kept people in their homes, Hays was ready to adapt. \u201cI quickly realized that people staying at home did not need as much clothing and I channeled my energies into making masks,\u201d she says. She lost count after hitting 700 masks. \u201cI do know that making masks grounded me and kept me calm during the depths of this last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She made use, also, of time for contemplation, deciding what her creative path forward would look like and making some plans to strengthen her online and social media presence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I slowly emerge alongside the rest of the world, I am finding my way back to my studio and back to creating,\u201d says Hays. \u201cI work intuitively for the most part, and I intend to simply start creating with the first new silkscreen and to see where the work will take me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Teresa Hays\u2019 work is available at Shimai, Gallery of Contemporary Craft, in Nashville, TN and at Southern Highland Craft Guild\u2019s online shop (<a href=\"http:\/\/SouthernHighlandGuild.org\/product-category\/apparel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SouthernHighlandGuild.org\/product-category\/apparel<\/a>.) Hays has been named Southern Highland Craft Guild\u2019s 2021 Artist of the Year and will participate in the Guild\u2019s virtual summer fair July 15\u201318, as well as the show in October. Her work will be a part of the Guild group exhibition Sparkle, on view from August 7 through November 9 in the Focus Gallery at the Folk Art Center. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/TeresaHaysTextileStudio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TeresaHaysTextileStudio.com<\/a> and on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/top?q=%40teresahaystextiles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TeresaHaysTextiles<\/a> or Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/haystee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@haystee<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019re born into a family of makers and growers, you can\u2019t help but become a part of it all. \u201cI was inspired by my family,\u201d says fiber artist Teresa Hays, \u201cand I happily created side by side with them as a child. I learned to sew at a very young age. I made my first dress when I was five. 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