From Richmond Virginia, Christine joins us as resident artist for June 2025. During her time at Eden studios, Christine will be focused on researching and foraging plant materials of the Pacific North West. Using this research to deepen her weaving and dyeing practice, she will be investigating color and applying applications to handspun wool. Currently she has been refining her spinning technique using a vintage spinning wheel to create wool yarn to dye and weave with during the residency. Once naturally dyed, using foraged materials, this yarn will be woven in overshot pattern to create a long piece of fabric for a future exhibition. Thematically this work explores the relationships between utility, culture, and personal memory, aiming to expand material vocabulary and draw connections between the alchemy of color and the rhythm of woven patterns.

BIO

Christine Orr b.1993 (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Richmond, Virginia. Working in clay, fiber, paper-making, and poetry, her practice critically navigates how humans have co-evolved with objects. Orr investigates material culture’s role in our understanding of domestic and utilitarian items. This research connects objects and what they are made from as well as their metaphorical and symbolic potential. Orr received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2015. She completed her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in the Craft/Material Studies Department in 2021. She currently teaches as a ceramics professor at the University of Mary Washington and Virginia Commonwealth University.