Assistant Professor of Fiber Art at Tennessee Tech University’s Appalachian Center for Craft, Artist / Educator, Rena Wood exhibits her vintage textile and abstract embroidery series.

Rena Wood Bio

Fiber artist Rena Wood received her BFA in Fibers from the Kansas City Art Institute and MFA from the Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is an Associate Professor of Fiber Art at Tennessee Tech University’s Appalachian Center for Craft.   Previously, she was a Visiting Instructor at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.  Rena has been an Artist in Residence at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston, TX, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN, and at the Craft Alliance in St. Louis, MO.

Her intricately stitched hand embroidery and art installations have been shown nationally in solo and group exhibitions, most recently at the Dairy Barn Art Center in Athens, OH, the Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN and at the Leedy Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, MO. Rena is a recipient of the Tennessee Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Fellowship in Craft for 2023.  Rena’s work may be seen at www.renawood.com.