Cooper Hewitt says...
Wendy Wahl received her BA in Art from California State University at Northridge and an MAE in Textile Art from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has been working for over twenty-five years as an artist, designer, and educator. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of private and public collections. Her public works include a piece commissioned for the entrance of SOFA at the Park Avenue Armory, New York. She has exhibited work at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, the Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island, and the Fuller Craft Museum, Massachusetts. Wahl has received multiple artist fellowships and has been recognized in numerous publications. She has been teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design since 1985 in the Continuing Education department and as a lecturer.
Between 2008 and 2009 she created a series of two- and three-dimensional pieces made from discarded sets of Encyclopedia Britannica. This series investigates the relationship between nature and culture. In 2010 she was selected for Networks, a project documenting Rhode Island artists through video and exhibition. She currently lives with her family in Rhode Island, where she continues to produce work and teach.
