| by Armando Garcia Orso | (Curator at the Visions Museum of Textile Art) Deborah Kruger is a contemporary environmental fiber artist whose work combines beauty, craftsmanship, and social awareness. Her work resists disappearing into the cold white cube of the gallery. It glows, captures the viewer’s attention, and invites us to recognize familiar textures and colors that recall landscapes etched in our memory. As we move closer, we discover feathers – thousands of them – each inscribed with words in endangered languages such as Purépecha and Yiddish. Like the birds they evoke, these feathers seem to call out, to sing, to demand our attention. Handmade with extraordinary care, they…