
About our Teacher
Olivia Mae Clanton (b. 1995, she/her) is a textile artist, quilt maker, and craft educator based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Clanton earned her BFA in Fiber with an emphasis in socially engaged art practices from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2017. Olivia is a recipient of a Rocket Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation and co-founded Open House, a community space for exhibitions and education in Kansas City, Missouri. From 2017-2019, Olivia organized free classes based in STEAM out of Garage School, a detached garage turned classroom. She received an Art in the Loop artist residency in 2018, and an Arts and Entrepreneurship residency at UArk in 2022. Olivia is now a practicing artist and educator, teaching craft processes and knowledge in non-traditional spaces.