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by douglas king
Mallory Zondag treats fiber art as an old form of mimicry, humans replicating nature to protect and adorn ourselves, and she pushes that impulse until the second skins she builds stop feeling like clothing and start feeling like bodies. Wool becomes moss, meat, organ tissue, the soft architecture of decay, blurring where a person ends and the planet begins. She builds structure, then reacts to what’s there, letting the piece finish deciding what it is.
518 profiles artist spotlight
by rona mann
“Once you put something out into the world, it becomes something else”Truer words were never spoken. Especially when speaking about the work of mixed media artist Mallory Zondag, who knew from a very young age growing up in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, that she wanted to make art…
felt matters
Focus on the artist. issue 158
Along with the natural world, I always had an affinity for art. I knew I wanted to be an artist from the age of three, but I could never decide what kind. I loved drawing and painting; I loved clay; I loved anything that was hands-on. Having been taught to sew at a young age by my Oma, my grandmother, and my mother, how to knit by our neighbor and how to weave by my art teachers in school, I was always drawn to the tactile and hands-on nature of the fiber arts. It felt like building a new world from scratch, and it still feels like that today.
wfmz: Artist creates Musikfest's first-ever poster made entirely out of fiber art
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Every year, ArtsQuest chooses an artist to create the new Musikfest poster.
This year, for the first time ever, it's made entirely out of fiber art.
Artist Mallory Zondag has been a fiber artist and art educator working with ArtsQuest since 2017. But the last thing she expected was to be asked to make the 2025 Musikfest poster.
Lehigh valley style profile
Get to Know Fiber Artist Mallory Zondag The Lehigh Valley native is the artist behind the 2025 Musikfest poster.
A festival that’s been on the Lehigh Valley’s summer calendar for more than 40 years doesn’t have a lot of firsts yet to achieve. First one-million-attendee year, first fried Oreo (or Twinkie or pickle or mac and cheese), first comedian on the main stage—it’s all been done. And yet, Musikfest racked up a notable never-happened-before when it enlisted artist Mallory Zondag to work her magic on the 2025 poster. Zondag’s creation represents the first time the fiber arts have been given their time to shine on what has become the visual embodiment of the fest that out-fests them all in Bethlehem.
acadia national park profile
When I arrived in Acadia and began exploring, I was enamored by the incredibly lush and varied growth covering every bit of rock and earth. From the clouds and sprays of Reindeer Lichen that seemed to echo the sea foam crashing on the coast to the plush carpets of Haircap and Broom Forkmoss and even the flat, almost invisible shingled rock shield and cinder lichens that create new patterns in the granite through their density.
zygote quarterly Issue 34
Mallory Zondag is a Mixed Media Fiber artist and artist educator. Her work explores our tenuous relationship with the continuous growth and decay of the natural world and humanity’s place within those cycles using hand felted wool, wax, fibers, fabrics and objects both found and recycled. Our collective fascination and repulsion towards natural processes, from blooming flowers to blooming molds, pushes her to sculpt moments of grotesque beauty, investigating this duality through the meditative and hands-on practices of wet felting, weaving, sculpting and stitching.
allentown art museum
A Look Back: Artist-in-Residence Mallory Zondag
Fiber artist Mallory Zondag ends her yearlong-plus residency at the Art Museum on November 28, 2021, with the closing of her installation Cocooned in Art Ways Interactive Family Gallery. The work, says Mallory, explored the theme, “when we work together as a society and help one another, the world becomes more colorful and full of life!” Here is her look back at her residency, which included both in-person and virtual workshops.