Button Tidal Wave in White, 2024

Buttons, beads, thread, section of an antique coverlet 30" x 30"

Lost Roads, 2025

Mirrors, embroidery floss 27" H x 57" W

Complicated Memories, 2021

Paper, ephemera, vintage photo and buttons, organza, hand stitched with embroidery cotton 8"x 10"

The aftermath of global warming on the Norwegian Roof Rat (Rattus norvegicus), 2014

Screen mesh, drapery weights, embroidery thread, dog hair 7 x 21”

Story Unwritten IV, 2021

Handmade paper, thread, paper 6.5" x 9.5" x 0.5" (opened)

Cinched, 2025

Wire, fiber, beads 12" x 8" x 10"

Profusion, 2018

bookbinders' board, mulberry paper, paint, canvas, watercolor paper and hemp cord 8.75 x 24.5 x 7.75"

my mirror lives again every night so I keep it, 2022

Digital thermal print scans printed on velvet, cotton thread, vinyl, batting. Handsewn. 56.5” x 38” x 2”

REMEMBER, 2023

Vintage cotton handkerchief made in Germany, silk threads. Hand stitch 28cm x 28cm x 4cm

Knit Paper Vessel, 2024

Factory discard dressmaker pattern tissue paper innovative, self-directed explorations of thoughtfully selected materials—porcelain, reed, rubber, encaustic wax, aluminum screen, fiber, reclaimed post-consumer discard, and foil gilding—used in unconventional applications. She challenges the boundaries of what should be included in an artist’s toolkit, reimagining materials for her new purposes. Her latest work involves knitting dressmaker’s pattern tissue accented with gilding foil, which she transforms into large tapestries and vessels with undulating, intricate surfaces. Recently, Ms. Braun gained international recognition for combining the contrasting materials of rattan reed—a traditional basket-making material—and rubber, commonly found in construction. The unexpected fusion of these elements results in sculptures that exude personality and movement. Since 2019, Ms. Braun has been exploring the potential of the pattern tissue, initially using it to texture surfaces and encase her reed forms. By 2023, she embraced the material as her primary medium, knitting fragile 4-inch-wide strips with no tool other than her fingers, that in close inspection reveal the tissue’s inked patterns and instructions. By juxtaposing the undervalued mundane factory waste tissue with precious gold gilding foil, Braun challenges social norms, traditional notions of value and materiality, undervalued labor in the sewing industry, and the preciousness of gold. In these works, the tissue gains new life and value. The large scale of these knitted constructs twists its use from unseen to the forefront. Ms. Braun sees in the finished draped gullies and peaks a reference to natural

Miners of the Forest, 2024

Porcelain cast cicada shells, coal 7 foot x 3.5 foot

Fire, 2020

Wool, silk, cotton, thread, paper, ink Open: 9" x 42"

By A Thread Blue, 2021

Repurposed vintage quilt, indigo dye, threads 26" x 26"

Uncompahgre Fritillary – Endangered Pollinator, 2023

cotton fabrics, fusible, freemotion stitching 42" x 60"

Daisho, 2010

Silk & aluminum 24" x 80"

Fossils, 2017

Hand-painted raw silk & cotton. 47 x 58”

Strawberry Moon, 2022

Whitetail deer antler, reeds, 11" x 4" x 9"

Inheritance, 2022

Wood (walnut), pigments (soil, indigo, acorn, walnut), paper (cotton, abaca, human hair, dye), synthetic hair, human hair, glass, sterling silver, lily, beeswax, aromatics 10.5” x 10.5” x 4”H

Vestiges II, 2019

burnt drawing on handmade abaca paper, thread 18 x 12 inches

Sum of My Parts, 2022

Wedding dress from second marriage, avocado-dyed cheesecloth, map of Civilization from youngest child, Nigerian fabric from fieldwork, linens from paternal grandmother, baby blanket from youngest child, artist's clothing 64" x 64"

Cessation, 2023

Hemp twine and yarn, spalted maple base 6" x 9" x 9"

Bleached Coral, 2017

Wool, hanji paper, cotton thread 15"x12"

Elevation – Shelley Smolen, 2025

wood veneer, cardboard, painted paper 4 x 6"

Color Chimes, 2023

Fiber, repurposed materials, beads, wire, wood 57" x 40" x 5