Luella Artwork

Blair Treuer is a rural textile artist from Northern Minnesota. A storyteller who paints with fabric and draws with thread. After a decade of creating blankets for private Native American spiritual ceremonies she transitioned to creating portraits for public display in 2018. Since the debut of her first collection January 2020, her portraits have been included in nearly 50 gallery exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, and have received several awards. She was also the recipient of a Minnesota Region 2 Arts Council 2021 Fellowship Award and a 2022 McKnight Fellowship Award, which is one of the largest fellowships for fiber artists in the United States.