Carrie Burckle (born in Sacramento) is a visual artist, educator and curator living in Los Angeles. She grew up in a new housing subdivision in Orange County, CA. But, she has always felt strong emotional ties to her parents’ roots in Kentucky where there was time to visit with relatives sitting on the front porch swing.  She loved rooting in her grandparents’ attics and basements for the trinket that had potential to tell a story.  These early memories and experiences influenced her attraction to the things that are often overlooked, forgotten, and discarded.  Her work blurs the lines between traditional fiber processes and the sculptural object into layered, expressive, and contemplative works about the body, the marginalized, and the overlooked in a society that craves the new, the fastest and the cheapest.

Graduating with her BFA in Textile Design from California State University Long Beach under the program chair Mary Jane Leland. Carrie did post graduate work at the Appalachian Center for Crafts in TN with Jim Bassler. After teaching in the Los Angeles Unified School District as an elementary teacher Carrie returned to California State University Long Beach and received her MFA under the program chair Carol Shaw-Sutton and where Carrie received the Distinguished Creative Achievement Award from the College of the Arts. While a graduate student she was hired to teach in the fiber program.

Carrie has an extensive teaching history; in the Los Angeles public schools, California State University Northridge, San Diego State, Cal State LA, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and Woodbury University. She was an adjunct faculty member in the Fiber program at CSULB for 20+ years.  Recently retired she teaches workshops in screenprinting, pattern design, soft sculpture, and basketry.

As early as 1990, her exhibition record has grown both regionally, and nationally:
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles; Craft in America Center, Los Angeles; Hyde Art Gallery, Grossmont College, San Diego;-Visions Art Museum, San Diego; Mingei Museum, San Diego; Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Tampa;  Downey Museum of Art, Downey; Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and many others. 

She is the founding member and exe. director of Textile Arts LA. An Arts community she began 10 years ago. It has grown into a robust non-profit org. with over 200 members.