Polly Barton

Polly Barton (b. 1956) is an American textile artist.

Biography Barton was born in New York City. She graduated in art history from Barnard College in 1978 and lived and traveled in Paris, Florence, and Rome. In 1981, she moved to Kameoka, Japan, to study with master weaver Tomohiko Inoue, living in the religious heart of the Oomoto Foundation. She returned to New York in 1982 and continued to weave on her Japanese tsumugi silk kimono looms.

Barton shows her woven silk ikat paintings on both coasts, and is collected by the Art Institute of Chicago, New Works, Gail Martin, New York City

Public collections Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Miho Museum, Misono, Japan Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Daphne Farago Collection, Boston Guido Goldman Ikat Collection, New York City Davis, Polk & Wardwell, London, England and New York City Tobin Collection, Santa Fe Oomoto Foundation, Kameoka, Japan Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City Grace Cathedral, San Francisco Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York City Community Hospital Foundation of the Monterey Peninsula

Honors 1984 – Best of Show Award, Convergence ’84, Dallas, Texas 1985 – Juror's Award, Juried Exhibition of the New York Guild of Handweavers, New York City 1986 – Stanley Mendelbaum Award, Juried Exhibition of the New York Guild of Handweavers, New York City 1997 – Honorable Mention Crafts, Taos Open, Taos, New Mexico

Lectures and workshops 2001 – Summer Workshop: Ikat, Northern New Mexico Community College, El Rito 2002 – Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Textile Arts Alliance, Santa Fe Summer Workshop: Ikat, Northern New Mexico Community College, El Rito, New Mexico 2004 – Design with Heart, Santa Fe 2008 – William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe Visible Presence, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose Textile Arts Alliance, Santa Fe Shumei, Crestone 2009 – Shumei, Crestone, Colorado