Robin Hackman

press release: At Dane Arts, we are welcoming spring with a new exhibition in the Dane Arts Gallery on the first floor of the City-County Building.

On view from April 2 through June 29 is work by artist Robin Hackman. Hackman's fiber artwork is influenced by her dreams, which are wildly colorful and very sinuous. She takes views from Dane County or imagined scenes and reduces them to their simplest terms by interpreting the image in cloth. She embroidered and beaded felted wool that is layered and cut out, a technique similar to that used in Molas, textiles sewn by the Kuna People from The San Blas Island, off the coast of Panama.   

Hackman has been sewing, embroidering, and beading cloth since she was a young girl. Over the years, she has created clothing, home furnishings and accessories, and even upholstered furniture. She especially loves working with handmade, hand dyed and ethnic cloth. She completed her college education when she was 42 years old receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Returning to college late in life allowed her to use her experience with cloth art and furnishings toward her degree in fiber arts. Hackman has lived in Dane County for 19 years, her longest tenure in any location, and considers it home.