Jasper Moon is a Minnesota-based textile artist. He received his BFA in fiber arts from the University of Oregon and is currently pursuing his MFA at Cranbrook Academy of the arts. 

His current practice revolves around the idea of queer communities: their humanness, perceived imperfections, and how either an abundance or absence of community affects a bodily form. He uses tapestry weaving, needle felting, and stitchwork techniques to create vibrant abstracted figures that represent the vast joy queer communities create. His sculptural works speak to what it means to live within environments under stress, and the potential it creates for community bonding. 

Most of his work begins with tapestry weaving that utilizes a messy hand and fast pace in order to create interesting mistakes or inconsistencies within weave structures. He then plays off these mistakes to evolve each piece. His work is deeply reliant on the human mark, and embracing human mistake as a form of complex beauty.

His work becomes visual manifestations of how much joy can come from community, and hopes that through teaching, art, and community engagement, he can help sustain an actualized reality of this.

Thank you for taking interest in my work. Please refer to my contact page if you have any questions about my work, opportunities, commission work, or purchasing any of my tapestries.