Victoria Connors is an award-winning and nationally recognized fiber artist. Known for her plein air needle felts, travels, and winning countless “best in shows,” and art merits across the country at museums and art festivals. She has been featured on PBS in her national park series. She also has had several articles and podcasts such as, “Artist Pose” in Australia, the Examiner in New York, Rochester Business Insider, City Paper, and Artist Interview on Italy TV are a few she did. She also did an artist residency early in her art career at Main Street Arts in Clifton Springs before she headed on her two-year national park tour across the United States. As of today, her fiber creations have been on display and sold in the Finger Lakes region in NY, Brooklyn, LA, Toronto, London England, Oslo in Norway, and Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Living in the Finger Lakes, the regional terrain has shown Victoria the peace and beauty of nature. She has always enjoyed the process of creating. Landscapes and surrealism are her main passions for expression. Victoria was experienced with fiber arts, at first making hats. She then discovered needle felting while she witnessed an inspiring demonstration. From there she began creating her needle-felt painting and pushing herself to new limits with this medium.
The Process:
Needle felting involves repeatedly poking dyed wool with felting needles to create felt. The wool is laid over a felt backing and pushed into it using barbed needles.
Interviews and articles :
- Life in the Finger Lakes https://www.lifeinthefingerlakes.com/events/wet-felting-workshop-with-victoria-connors/
- Tina Blackwood of Ontario County Arts Council 2024: https://www.ocarts.org/post/victoria-connors
- Wxxi: https://www.artsinfocus.tv/segment/victoria-connors
- ROCO https://www.firstfridayrochester.org/events/march-featured-artist-victoria-lee-connors/
- Whitman Works Gallery: https://www.whitmanworks.com/victoria-connors-exhibit-oct2017
- City Paper, Rochester NY: https://www.roccitymag.com/arts-entertainment/art-nature-as-muse-7074154
- Main Street Arts Gallery, Clifton Springs https://mainstreetartscs.org/blog/victoria-connors-2/
- interview for artists in residents https://mainstreetartscs.org/blog/victoria-connors/
- foam to Victoria Connors by Katie Pfenninger– https://youtu.be/kJ2iUM-4JCE?si=EZwTb4EF1CkZjiKv
- RAw artist at the Wick, Brooklyn NY https://rawartists.com/https-www-etsy-com-shop-artofvictorialee