Alison Gates (Appleton) is an artist, academic, educator, writer, researcher, feminist, and reviewer who cultivates flax and natural dyes on the side. She works primarily in assemblage sculpture and stitched or knitted/knotted textiles with emotional and political content. She regularly collaborates on projects with a medieval archaeologist and a biologist. Gates holds an MFA in Studio Textiles from the University of Washington and teaches full time as a professor in both the Art Program and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
