Color Block

Eleanor Anderson
September 5 – October 19, 2025

The Visual Arts Center of Richmond presents an exhibition of work by Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Eleanor Anderson and curated by Haley Clouser.

Color Block exemplifies Anderson’s intuitive processes and material explorations, presenting recent fused glass panels alongside her ongoing series of mixed-media textile tapestries rich with color, texture, and compositional nuance. Wandering within and between these disciplinary genres, Anderson gathers seemingly disparate objects and forms, responding to their disjointedness and fractures through acts of connection—sewing, knotting, fusing, or building with lattices and lines. Together, these works both revere and challenge conventions of art-making, celebrating its often-overlooked spirit of play and collaboration to emphasize the need for unity and joy in our increasingly polarized world.

About the artist

Eleanor Anderson (b. 1988) maintains a multidisciplinary practice spanning textiles, glass, metal, and clay. She received her BA in Studio Art at Colorado College (2012), and MFA in Fiber at Cranbrook Academy of Art (2022). Anderson has been awarded residencies at Pilchuck School of Glass (Stanwood, WA), Windgate Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Haystack School, (Deer Isle, ME) and the Textile Arts Center (Brooklyn, NY) and the Museum of Glass, (Tacoma, WA). She has taught workshops at Penland, Pocosin School of Crafts, as well as been a professor at Colorado College, the Cleveland Institute of Art and College for Creative Studies in Detroit. She lives and works in Portland, ME.

Instagram: @eleanor_anderson_studio / Website: eleanoranderson.com

About the Curator

Haley Clouser is the Assistant Curator at the SCAD Museum of Art (SCAD MOA) and an independent curator and writer. At SCAD MOA, she has curated and supported exhibitions including Raul De Lara: Raíces/Roots (2025), Iván Argote: The Burden of the Invisible (2024), and Tyler Mitchell: Domestic Imaginaries (2023). Previously, she was the Curatorial Fellow at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, where she organized exhibitions with artists such as Rachel Hayes, Carolina Caycedo, and Melvin Edwards. In 2020, she received the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship to support American Land, American People at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, where she also contributed to the landmark exhibition The Dirty South (2021), as well as gallery rotations, acquisitions, and special projects. Her independent curatorial projects have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation, and her writing has appeared in BURNAWAY, The Boston Art Review, IMPACT Magazine, and other publications. She holds an MA in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University, and lives and works in Savannah, GA.