Beka Addison-Browder is an Appalachian fiber artist, printmaker, illustrator, and seamstress. She was born and raised in East Tennessee and currently resides in Johnson City with her husband and their many cats. She majored in art at ETSU, and then sought to increase her skill and continue to learn while working in production screen printing for Bonnie Kaye Studio and production sewing at Echoview Fiber Mill and Sew Co. She recently began to pursue making art full time. Beka is inspired by the flora and fauna of Appalachia and its heritage handicrafts. She is both a screen printer and a block printer and uses these methods to translate her ink drawings to fabric. She also designs and sews garments, quilts, crochets, knits, embroiders, darns, and dyes. She enjoys creating mixed media pieces using these various different skills, as well as using second hand materials as much as possible in her work.

A Stopping Place: A Collection of Works by Beka Addison-Browder

This is a collection spanning the last few years, inspired by a love of nature and heritage handicrafts. Beka’s illustrations feature various creature comforts and comforting creatures, fantasy and folk art, paired with vintage lace and pressed flowers, and are printed by hand. The soft fabrics, vintage lace, and warm colors are meant to evoke a nostalgia for late summer in the south and to display a new take on domestic bliss and coziness. Beka uses mostly secondhand materials, carefully sourced and repurposed, including the table linens and frames, and gives them new life with her prints featuring local flora and fauna and ornamental folk designs.