Biography

Eden Quispe is a mother of 4 young children, artist, and art teacher who lives with her Peruvian husband in a 170 year old country home. Her work reflects her non-traditional family and the resilient past that surrounds her rural community. 

She frequents antique shops and thrift stores in her community in Newton, Kansas, buying used, hand sewn embroideries to include in her work. She uses a vintage industrial sewing machine to join the pieces of her work together.