Kelly Riek

Lake Junaluska, NC

Kelly Riek is an emerging contemporary craft artist creating non-functional textiles with an 8-harness floor loom. A 2022 graduate of Haywood Community College's Professional Crafts Program, in Clyde, North Carolina, Riek began her weaving practice after a decade spent in the field of retail visual display and previous formal training in fashion design, sculpture, and audio art undertaken at Parsons School of Design and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently based in the small mountain community of Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, Riek creates work under the business name Achstetter and has been exhibited throughout the Southeastern United States, including at The Mint Museum Uptown, Vanderbilt University, The Bascom: Center for the Visual Arts, and the Southern Highland Craft Guild's Folk Art Center. She was a participant in the Center for Craft's 2025 WNC Craft Futures Cohort.

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IG: @achstetterhandwoven