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Pat Dozier was born in California and attended the University of Hawaii, where she began weaving. As part of a class project to copy/recreate a "master works", she chose a Navaho rug, for which she built the loom, handspun all the yarn, and wove her first tapestry. "I was hooked!", she says.

But it wasn't until later when she took Victor Jacoby's workshop and was exposed to the wide range of tapestry work, that she felt that weaving tapestries could be a valid vocation.

She moved to New Mexico in '92 to devote more time to tapestry weaving. Her work is characterized by strong, simple designs, reminiscent of classic Navajo but very asymmetrical. Her usual colors, black and white, are sometimes mixed with other strong hues all of which she dyes herself.

"Weaving expresses itself on many levels, from its tactile presence to its graphic expression of form and color. What I would like to express are those small or fleeting moments of beauty we experience in our everyday lives. Like patterns of shadows, a fallen leaf or feather, a bit of pottery or the juxtaposition of rock and sky. It's these glimpses of beauty I should like to capture ." Her favorite images are macro visions of Pueblo pottery.

Pat Dozier's tapestries are represented in collections nationwide. In the summer of 1999 her new works were featured in a two-person show at Weaving Southwest Gallery.