Linda Gass

About the artist

Bay Area artist Linda Gass is best known for her stitched paintings about climate change, water, and land use. Her love of textiles began in childhood when her grandmother taught her to sew. She balances artmaking with championing environmental causes and backpacking in the wilderness, where she finds inspiration for her work.

Artwork

Linda Gass, Severely Burned: Impact of the Rim Fire on the Tuolumne River Watershed, 2014, grid of stitched drawings, photograph by Don Tuttle

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