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 a Masters of Education in early childhood special education.

In 2011 she returned to Tulsa where she has taught special education, preschool, and art in public schools. Taylor now divides her time between making and showing her work and teaching art classes and workshops to children and adults in various galleries, schools, and arts organizations throughout Oklahoma. She 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 natural environments.

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. In 2019 she was selected to be the Holland Hall ARTworks artist in residence and in 2021 she was chosen as 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 and in 2023 she was invited to display an installation of her work at The Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City. She had a 2023 solo show entitled, “Meander,” at Liggett Studios and in 2024 a solo show entitled, “Veins of Oklahoma,” at the Phillips Seminary Gallery. She regularly does commissions for private collections around the country and her work appears frequently in group shows locally and nationally.