Biographical Sketch

Jeanne Brady was born in 1954 and raised in San Diego, California until her family moved to Germany in 1966. She missed the entire upheaval of the sixties, being immersed instead in the classical culture of Western Europe until 1972. Jeanne studied art in college, completing a BFA in printmaking and drawing at East Carolina University in 1977. She spent the next fifteen years traveling, teaching, and studying papermaking and clothing construction.

Since a small child Jeanne has been decorating and sewing fabric and paper. For several years she ran a business making hand painted and constructed original design clothing. In 1985 Jeanne sold the business and moved to rural northern Maine, homesteading on 57 acres for six years while teaching art in high school. She returned to East Carolina University in 1992 to study surface and textile design, completing a Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1996. Since completing her MFA Jeanne has taught full-time at the university level, focusing on surface design, weaving, wool felting, spinning, and papermaking. 

Before coming to Tennessee Technological University's Appalachian Center for Craft, she taught at the University of Maine, East Carolina University, and Appalachian State University. Her work has appeared in American Craft and is represented in national and international exhibitions and collections. Jeanne’s broad range of experience is evident in a fibers program grounded in well-crafted traditional, functional and exploratory contemporary fiber forms and processes.

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