Kristi Yapp

Kristi Yapp is a contemporary fiber artist based in rural Indiana who creates sculptural and wearable works using traditional fiber techniques including freeform crochet, macrame, wet felting, and needle felting. Her work combines wool, recycled textiles, and found materials to explore themes of grief, memory, transformation, and the symbolic language of the heart. Her ongoing Broken Heart Series uses sculptural fiber forms to reflect the ways love, loss, and experience shape the human spirit.

Yapp sources raw wool from local farmers and processes the fiber herself, washing, dyeing, carding, and preparing it by hand before it becomes part of a finished piece. This hands on relationship with the material connects her work to long standing textile traditions while allowing the character of the fiber to remain visible in the final form.

Originally from the Chicagoland area, Yapp now lives on a small homestead surrounded by seventy two acres of corn where, in addition to creating art, she cares for her chickens, ducks, dogs, and cats.

Links

Website: KristiYapp-woolalchemist.com
Facebook: Mamaearth1971
Instagram: @yappkristi
TikTok: @kristiyapp5