CLaire
Renaut

Claire Renaut, a Seattle based artist, is recognized for her work of spinning newspaper into yarn and intricate textile pieces. "Common materials are great materials, the transformation potential is endless". "The newspaper is almost unrecognizable after it has been spun".
Formally trained at ESMOD in Paris, Philadelphia University's Master's in Textile, and Kyoto's Kawashima school of Textile, Renaut has extended on the traditional Japanese Shifu technique of spinning thinly cut paper.  She then knit, wrap or weave it.
Some of Renaut's work has been influenced by her French-German upbringing which brought a lifelong questioning on what immigration and adaptation means.
In a time of great technology change, she takes pleasure in using hands-on traditional methods.