Finding aid of Joan Potter Loveless Slides of Weavings, AV.7003

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Finding aid of Joan Potter Loveless Slides of Weavings, AV.7003

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Joan Potter Loveless (1925-2009) attended Black Mountain College during the mid-1940s. She took art classes with Josef Albers and studied weaving with Anni Albers and Trude Guermonprez. While living in Taos, New Mexico in the 1950s and '60s, Joan began to weave tapestries using locally spun wool which she dyed herself. Although some inspiration for her may have come from her younger days at Black Mountain College, Joan's work was much more influenced by the New Mexico landscape and the weaving of the area's indigenous dwellers, the Navajo. The Joan Potter Loveless Slides of Weavings are comprised of sixty-three color slides of original weavings. All slides numbered. Some have brief descriptions on the slide mounts.

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Loveless, Joan Potter, 1928-2009

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Joan Potter Loveless was born on July 8, 1928 as Joan Couch. She studied weaving under Anni Albers at Black Mountain College in North Carolina from 1944 to 1948. In 1946, she married painting student Oli Sihvonen and the couple had a daughter, Kimry, in 1947. After the 1948 session, the family traveled to Taos, New Mexico where Oli was studying. After moving to Washington, D.C., Loveless began teaching kindergarten and created curriculum for students who were moving from preschool to formal scho...