Artist Bio

Taylor Painter-Wolfe is a fiber artist and art teacher from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She majored in fiber art at the Kansas City Art Institute where she first learned how to work with felted wool. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2003 and later attended The University of Washington where she earned an M.Ed. in early childhood special education. In 2011, she returned to Tulsa and taught for many years in Tulsa Public Schools. She currently divides her time between making her own art, working as an art professor at Tulsa Community College, and teaching classes and workshops to children and adults in galleries, schools, and arts organizations throughout the region.

Taylor creates abstract landscapes made of felted wool she makes and dyes herself. Her work is inspired by aerial photographs, satellite images, and her own photography of textures and shapes found in nature. She is particularly drawn to landscapes that feature water and finding interesting ways to represent the movement of water and texture of the land surrounding it.

Some of Taylor’s most notable exhibitions and projects are “Don’t Look Down,” a 2017 solo exhibition at The Kansas City Artist Coalition and “Green Country Air,” a 2018 year-long installation at the Tulsa International Airport. She was chosen as the 2019 Holland Hall ARTworks artist and in 2021 she was the designer and creator of The Philbrook Museum of Art Winter Festival pin. In 2022 she received a Tulsa Creates Together grant through Living Arts Tulsa. In 2023 she had an installation of her work at The Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City and a solo show entitled, “Meander,” at Liggett Studios. In 2024 she had a solo show entitled, “Veins of Oklahoma,” at the Phillips Seminary Gallery and in 2026 she was chosen as the Oxley Nature Preserve artist in residence. She regularly does commissions for private collections around the country, and her work appears frequently in group shows in the Tulsa area.