Diane Crowder: Life after Cornell

By Dee Ann Rexroat

Diane Crowder
French, women’s studies, 1977-2012

Diane Crowder is a lifelong fiber artist whose work took a new direction after she audited Vivian Heywood’s weaving class at Cornell. Upon retirement she and her partner, Margaret Lieb, sold their home in Mount Vernon and added a large living and loom room onto their home on Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. Crowder is a certified master weaver and past chair of the Lake Area Fiber Arts Guild. In 2017 she was awarded Best in Show at an art-to-wear exhibit in St. Charles, Missouri. Not one to sit idle, she also built a 12-foot sailboat in 2008.

Photos by Carol Zeman (see additional emeriti photos)

  • Diane Crowder

    Diane Crowder

  • Diane Crowder (photo by Margaret Lieb)

  • Diane Crowder at the loom

    Diane Crowder at the loom

  • Diane Crowder loading thread

    Diane Crowder loading thread

  • Diane Crowder studio

    Diane Crowder studio

  • Diane Crowder weaving close-up

    Diane Crowder weaving close-up

  • Diane Crowder weaving

    Diane Crowder weaving