About the Artist
Magnus Hoopes was born in Baltimore, Maryland; attended the Friends School of Baltimore, and Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvannia. He is currently an Artist in Residence at the Baltimore County Arts Guild, and teaches adult art classes through the Howard County Library System. He and his husband Nikolas Swaner vend online and at local art shows under the collective name of Squishaus, which has been a long-running staple at Claymonster's Monster of a Show in Baltimore, as well as Howard County's Columbia Festival of the Arts.
Magnus' work has been exhibited at the Chesapeake Arts Center (Brooklyn Park, MD); the Columbia Center for the Arts (Columbia, MD); the Tin Top Gallery (Winchester, VA); and the Gallery at 1111 (Arbutus, MD).
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Artist's Statement
Magnus Hoopes is a multidisciplinary textile artist and paper engineer. His work includes wearable art, soft sculpture, crochet, embroidery, lacemaking, hand bookbinding, and papercut illustration.
