Tobiah Mundt is a sculptural fiber artist from Houston, Texas. She studied Architecture at Howard University in Washington, DC and eventually left the practice of Architecture for her sculptural fiber art practice.Tobiah is a founding member of the Charlottesville Black Artist Collective and is a Resident Artist at McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, VA. She uses the slow, meditative processes of needle felting, wet felting, and rug tufting to sculpt figurative pieces that are a snapshot of the past, present, and imagined future experiences. A New City Arts Initiative Fellow and former Artist Residence at The Bridge PAI and The Welcome Gallery in Charlottesville, VA. Her work has been exhibited in Texas, Virginia, Maryland, and DC and is in private and corporate collections locally and nationally.
My work uses sculpture to layer family and community experiences. Using a slow process called needle felting, raw wool is poked thousands of times with a barbed needle, compacting and sculpting the fiber. Each piece is a chapter in a larger story about family, community, perseverance and protection and functions as a tool to process and unburden experience while imagining and creating the future.