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American textile artist

Lisa Anne Auerbach (born 1967 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American textile artist, zine writer, photographer, best known for her knitting works with humorous political commentary.

Education

• MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, 1994
• BFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, 1990

Biography

Born in 1967 in Ann Arbor, Michigan Auerbach currently resides in Los Angeles.^[1]

Career

Auerbach has been making knitted pieces since completing her undergraduate degree at the Art Center of Design in 1994.

Photography was the discipline she studied for her MFA, however, due to lack of access to a darkroom, she used knitting as a cost-effective way to make art.^[2]

Work

Knit works, zines, newsletters and a 5-foot-tall magazine titled American Megazine are all part of her body of work.^[1] Her Knitting patterns are often created digitally and created with a knit