Lou Cabeen is a Seattle artist who works with a range of media including maps, textiles, stitching and collage. Making artist books allows her to fully explore the power of tactile experience in communicating her ideas. She uses cloth, paper and stitching in order to emphasize the tactile nature of private experience, and to reveal the textures of subjective thought. 

Lou’s most recent work is inspired by environmental issues, from coal mining to watershed protection. She also explores the numinous and has created a series of works inspired by the legends of St. Clare of Assisi and the 20th century apparitions of Mother Mary.