(Gleit rhymes with light!)

Stephanie Gleit has had an array of interests throughout her lifetime in the world of art and design. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and spent her senior year in Rome with RISD’s European Honor’s Program. Her MFA is from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her experiences include printmaking, bookbinding, graphic design, ceramics, weaving and archaeological illustration work in Italy and Greece. In 2004, she began her long career as a graphic designer at the Miami Science Museum. Since 2008, she has been the Senior Graphic Designer at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia.

Her love for weaving comes from the depth of the discipline’s history, the utility of the craft, and the expansive and infinite creations that weaving allows. The interplay of weave structures, patterning, colors and materials make for a limitless playground. Daily life is filled with cloth, but, in today’s world, so little of it is handmade. Yet handmade textiles are so much richer in feel, quality and meaning.

Stephanie’s goal is to make beautiful pieces that will brighten the dullest chore, bring warmth on a cold day or charm to an outfit. Life is hard enough, so shouldn’t drying dishes be a little more enjoyable with a towel made by hand?