Textiles & Tea
Each week the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. (HGA) hosts Textiles & Tea, a conversation with some of the most respected fiber artists in the field today. In our 45-minute discussion we focus on their artwork and their creative journey. We allow 15 minutes at the end of our conversation for questions from the audience. Textiles & Tea will take place every Tuesday at 4:00 PM (ET) and is broadcast via Zoom and Facebook Live. These broadcasts are free to view and open to all.
2022 Schedule
Textiles & Tea takes place online every Tuesday, 4:00 - 5:00 PM ET. This program is supported through generous sponsorships and donations.
Click on the date for more information and to register (registration open through January).
Zoom allows up to 1,000 guests to view the program on the platform at any given time. This program is also shared Live on HGA's Facebook page. A link will be provided in the registration confirmation email.
May 3, 2022: Micala Sidore
generously sponsored by Schiffer Craft Publishing
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May 10, 2022: Rabbit Goody
generously sponsored by Heddlecraft
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May 17, 2022: Abraham Buddish
generously sponsored by Suanne Pasquarella, supporting weavers of the future
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May 24, 2022: David Heustess
generously sponsored by Handweavers Guild of Nashville
David Heustess is an artist and arts educator in Nashville, TN, and his work makes use of clay, fiber arts, and beadwork. After many years of working as a modern dancer/teacher, David began pursuing his interest in pottery and other art mediums. He attended the Appalachian Center for Crafts and in 1995 he earned a BFA degree with studio concentrations in clay and fiber arts. Currently, David directs a gallery space and a community arts education program (Sarratt Art Studios) at Vanderbilt University. Fall 2021 will mark David’s 25th year of working for Vanderbilt. His passion for teaching and his love for making artwork has allowed him the opportunity to share a variety of mediums with students from all parts of the Nashville community. David is treasurer/membership director for the Handweavers Guild of Nashville and the Director of Exhibitions for the American Tapestry Alliance.
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May 31, 2022: Mary Berry
generously sponsored by Spokane Handweavers Guild
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June 7, 2022: Myra Wood sponsored by Heddlecraft
June 14, 2022: Adrienne Gaskell (sponsorship available)
June 21, 2022: Anita Mayer (sponsorship available)
June 28, 2022: Caroline Kaufman (sponsorship available)
July 5, 2022: Tegan Frisino sponsored by Tabby Tree Weaver
July 12, 2022: Bonnie Tarses (sponsorship available)
July 19, 2022: Ann Richards sponsored by Denise Kovnat
July 26, 2022: Eric Frisino (sponsorship available)
August 2, 2022: Concepcion Tharin (sponsorship available)
August 9, 2022: Allie Dudley (sponsorship available)
August 16, 2022: Rebecca Winter sponsored by Schiffer Craft Publishing
August 23, 2022: Gisali Adeyemo (sponsorship available)
August 30, 2022: Kathie Roig (sponsorship available)
September 6, 2022: Catharine Ellis sponsored by Schiffer Craft Publishing
September 13, 2022: TBA (sponsorship available)
September 20, 2022: Porfirio Gutierrez (sponsorship available)
September 27, 2022: Keith Leonard (sponsorship available)
October 4, 2022: TBA (sponsorship available)
October 11, 2022: TBA (sponsorship available)
October 18, 2022: TBA (sponsorship available)
October 25, 2022: TBA (sponsorship available)
November 1, 2022: TBA (sponsorship available)
November 8, 2022: TBA (sponsorship available)
November 15, 2022: TBA (sponsorship available)
November 22, 2022: TBA (sponsorship available)
November 29, 2022: TBA (sponsorship available)
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Previous Episodes
All episodes of Textiles & Tea are recorded and are available to be watched on HGA's Facebook page and YouTube channel. For more information on previous episodes, click the links below.
January 5, 2021: Mary Zicafoose
![]() “I strive to be an inspirational presence in the textile world.”
Mary Zicafoose’s fiber journey began with ikat cloth she received as a gift as a child. Her undergraduate degree was from St Mary’s College and graduate work was School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of Nebraska. In pursuing a more painterly approach to fiber she was drawn to ikat technique which took her on her 30 year journey. She is the co-director emeritus of the American Tapestry Alliance. She has recently published a book Ikat: The Essential Guide to Weaving Resist-Dyed Cloth.
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January 12, 2021: Peggy Wiedemann
sponsored by Laurel Schwartz
![]() Peggy Wiedemann grew up in Long Beach, California. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles earning a degree in Fine Arts with an emphasis on drawing and painting. After college, she experimented in a variety of art mediums including oil painting, pen-and-ink drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics. Peggy found basketry and was hooked. Peggy uses a wide variety of materials and has a strong preference for natural fibers. To these natural materials, she adds metal, beads and “found” objects to form unique pieces.
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January 19, 2021: Janet Phillips
sponsored by Made In America Yarns
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January 26, 2021: Rebecca Mezoff
sponsored by Appalachian Yarn Company
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February 2, 2021: Laura Viada
generously sponsored by The Textile Museum Journal
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February 9, 2021: Nathalie Miebach
generously sponsored by The Woolery
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February 16, 2021: Lucienne Coifman
generously sponsored by Made in America Yarns
Lucienne Coifman has taught weaving for almost 45 years at the Guilford Art Center (Guilford, CT), The Creative Art workshop (New Haven, CT) and in her own studio. She's also conducted workshops throughout the Northeast and the Midwest, including the last 4 Convergence® conferences. For 35 years, Lucienne has been studying Rep Weave, experimenting with different fibers. Her main interest has centered on color interactions and patterns, using up to 8 harnesses and using pick-up techniques when needed. She has researched many unusual ways to weave Rep Weave that do not follow the traditional path. Her weavings have appeared in Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, Handwoven, and have been included in many juried exhibits. Her book, REP - RIPS - REPS Weaves (2015), is a complete workshop for both beginning and advanced weavers. |
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March 2, 2021: Denise Kovnat
generously sponsored by the Whatcom Weavers Guild of Bellingham, WA, in memory of Leslie Comstock
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March 9, 2021: Heavenly Bresser
generously sponsored by the 2020-21 HGA Board of Directors
Heavenly Bresser is an award-winning handspinner, published author, and proud owner of Heavenly Knitchet. After discovering a love for spinning yarn, Heavenly became determined to learn something new every day from spinning wheel to spindle. Taking a project from raw fleece to finished product is one her favorite things. She teaches classes for a local spinning guild and also at fiber festivals. Heavenly has led two sheep to shawl teams. She has written for major publications including Ply magazine, Spin Off magazine as well as tinyStudio Creative Life. When Heavenly isn't teaching, vending, or playing in fibers and yarn, she repairs antique spinning wheels.
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March 16, 2021: Cameron Taylor-Brown
generously sponsored by Made in America Yarns
Cameron Taylor-Brown was introduced to textiles by artist Ed Rossbach at the University of California, Berkeley. She studied textile design at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, where she subsequently taught design and weaving. Since 1985 she has lived in Los Angeles where she is active in arts and education, and founded ARTSgarage, a textile resource center. Her work is widely exhibited and has been featured in American Craft, Handwoven, Fiber Art Now, and Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot. She teaches workshops at schools, guilds, museums and conferences throughout the United States and at ARTSgarage in Los Angeles. She is a past president of California Fibers and serves on the advisory boards of the Fowler Textile Council and Textile Arts Los Angeles. In 2019, she curated the critically acclaimed exhibition, Material Meaning: A Living Legacy of Anni Albers at the Craft in America Center in Los Angeles.
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March 23, 2021: Deborah Robson
generously sponsored by Marcy Petrini & Terry Dwyer ![]() |
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March 30, 2021: Tien Chiu
generously sponsored by Marcy Petrini & Terry Dwyer ![]() |
April 6, 2021: Gene Shepherd
generously sponsored by Tabby Tree Weaver
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April 13, 2021: Kelly Marshall
generously sponsored by Meridian Mill House
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April 20, 2021: Jacqueline James
generously sponsored by Meridian Mill House
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May 4, 2021: Sue Weil
generously sponsored by Meridian Mill House
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May 11, 2021: Nazanin Amiri Meers
generously sponsored by Central Coast Weavers
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May 18, 2021: Cassie Dickson
generously sponsored by Yarn Barn of Kansas
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![]() Gerhardt Knodel has contributed to and reshaped the fiber arts for more than 40 years. Early experiences in theatre design resulted in his use of textiles as interior architecture. He has exhibited and taught around the world, and he is widely known for his numerous commissions for contemporary architecture. For 25 years he led the graduate program in Fiber at Cranbrook Academy of Art and subsequently was named the director. He now maintains a full-time studio practice in Pontiac, Michigan. |
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June 8, 2021: Majeda Clarke
generously sponsored by Schiffer Publishing
![]() Inspired by her own cultural background, Majeda Clarke’s designs celebrate regional weave techniques and the identity of the maker. Whether in small batch production or entirely handmade she seeks sustainable, local production. All the designs deconstruct the geometry of weave while color and pattern are reconsidered in a fresh modern approach. She works closely with local communities such as UNESCO Jamdani weavers of Dhaka, renewing ancient techniques. Majeda's mill woven pieces also explore a lost weaving heritage which can be traced back generations. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe. She sells her work online and through commissions. |
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June 15, 2021: Linda Hartshorn
generously sponsored by Yarn Barn of Kansas
![]() Linda Hartshorn is a weaver and dyer, known for her unique dye-work and lively use of color in her handwoven textiles. Linda weaves and dyes in her home on the redwood coast of California and teaches weaving at the Ink People Center for the Arts in Eureka, California. Linda enjoys leading workshops and brings her positive, fun and supportive teaching style to events all over the country. She is a two-time recipient of the Victor Thomas Jacoby Award for spinners, weavers, and dyers. |
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June 22, 2021: Justin Squizzero
generously sponsored by Schiffer Publishing
![]() Handweaver Justin Squizzero challenges modern definitions of progress by creating functional textiles that celebrate the natural world and the dignity of human labor. Echoing a time when utilitarian objects were entirely handcrafted, his work connects material, maker, and user across time and place. Squizzero’s venture, The Burroughs Garret, draws on the textile traditions of his northern Vermont home, marrying natural dyes and fibers with a reserved aesthetic rooted in early New England. Produced on his 19th-century farm using 200-year-old hand looms, Squizzero’s textiles examine the role of handcraft in a post-industrial society, questioning the human experience in a digital age. |
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June 29, 2021: Jessica Pinsky
generously sponsored by Fiber Arts Guild of Pittsburgh, producer of the Fiber Arts International Exhibition ![]() Jessica Pinsky grew up in Akron, Ohio and moved to Cleveland in 2011 after receiving a BFA in Studio Art from New York University in 2006 and an MFA in painting from Boston University in 2009. She began teaching at Cleveland Institute of Art in 2011 and is currently serving as faculty in the Sculpture and Expanded Media department. Together with Cleveland Institute of Art, Jessica founded Praxis Fiber Workshop in June 2015. |
![]() Joan Ruane has been teaching spinning for almost 30 years. As a graduate from Springfield College, she taught in the Tucson Public Schools before going to New Zealand in 1971. While there she learned to spin from Ruth Reid. When she returned to the U.S., Joan continued to spin and began teaching and demonstrating at the Pioneer Settlement in Florida. Joan has owned two retail shops and is the maker of Easy to Spin cotton fiber. She has produced two DVD's on spinning cotton. Now Joan concentrates on teaching workshops, writing, and promoting cotton and hemp wherever she can. |
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July 13, 2021: Helena Hernmarck
generously sponsored by Schiffer Publishing
![]() Helena Hernmarck's signature is her ability to harness light and color as conduits for spectacular illusion in handwoven textiles. Using a technique of her own invention, she conjures details from our visual world. Helena was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1941. After graduating from art school in Stockholm in 1963, she moved her studio to Canada and later to England before settling in the United States in the mid-1970s. Hernmarck now maintains an active studio in Connecticut, USA. She continues to support Swedish textile arts, and collaborates with Swedish spinners, dyers, and weavers on each commission. |
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July 20, 2021: Evee Erb
generously sponsored by Austin School of Fiber Arts ![]() Evee Erb is a nationally award-winning American artist who graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2016 with a BFA in Ceramics. While attending MICA, she also studied Illustration and Textile Design. Additionally, Erb studied ceramic sculpture in Florence, Italy at SACI College of Art and Design. After receiving her degree, Erb returned to her hometown of Durham, North Carolina where she has worked at the North Carolina Museum of Art, taught workshops at a variety of art centers, served on curatorial jury panels, and given lessons and artist talks at various institutions. |
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![]() Julie Kornblum earned her BA in Art, with a concentration in fiber and fabric art, at California State University Northridge. But being a fiber artist was hereditary. She learned sewing, knitting, and crochet from her mother and grandmother. She attended fashion design school at Los Angeles Trade Technical College, was a patternmaker in the garment industry and taught at Otis College of Art and Design. Julie teaches fiber related workshops and her woven wall and basketry work has won numerous awards. |
August 3, 2021: Sean Dougall & Andrew Paulson
generously sponsored by Schacht Spindle Company
![]() Sean Dougall and Andrew Paulson are the co-founders of multidisciplinary art and design studio Dougall Paulson. They seek beauty through new forms of weaving, furniture, lighting, and objects. Using narrative as the thread that binds ideas together, their unique take on visual storytelling is the starting point for the creation of objects that straddle the fine, decorative, and graphic arts. Based in Southern California, Dougall Paulson approaches their practice with a focus on curiosity and discovery. |
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August 10, 2021: John Mullarkey
generously sponsored by Yarn Barn of Kansas
![]() Nationally-recognized teacher John Mullarkey has been tablet weaving for over a decade. His work has been displayed in the Missouri History Museum, and garments using his card woven bands have been featured in international fashion shows. His designs are featured frequently in Handwoven. John is the primary author of A Tablet Weaver’s Pattern Book, and has produced two DVDs for Interweave Press: Tablet Weaving Made Easy and Double-Faced Tablet Weaving. He is the developer of the Schacht Zoom Loom. John will be teaching at HGA's Convergence® conference taking place July 2022 in Knoxville. |
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August 17, 2021: Elizabeth Morisette
generously sponsored by Michigan League of Handweavers
![]() Elizabeth Morisette is a graduate of NCSU College of Design and received a Masters Degree from Maryland Institute College of Art. She has been exhibiting her weavings and sculptures for 25 years. In the Fall of 2020 she was featured in Hyperallergic, an online arts magazine, for her work in the University of Denver’s MASK exhibit. She has also been featured American Craft Magazine, The Denver Post, and The New York Times. Elizabeth has exhibited all over the U.S. She is currently the Education Coordinator at the Museum of Art Fort Collins. |
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August 24, 2021: Melissa English Campbell
generously sponsored by Weavers Guild of St. Louis in memory of Laura Blumenfeld
![]() Melissa English Campbell is an award winning artist, working with fiber, painting, and weaving. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Royal Albert Museum and Tramway Gallery in the UK; Seoul, South Korea; Como, Italy; Museum of Texas Tech University, the New Bedford Art Museum, and the Hedge Gallery. Melissa holds a Bachelor of Science from U.C. Davis and a Master in Fine Arts from Kent State University. She has had a career as a textile and fashion designer prior to starting a family and later as an assistant professor at Kent State University. Melissa now works full time in her Northeast Ohio studio. |
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![]() Joan Berner started working with her hands at a young age, primarily sewing and knitting. As with many fiber artists, other crafts skills were added but they still were fundamentally dependent on sewing. It wasn’t until her husband decided she needed to learn to weave that she fully began to realize the vast creative opportunities in the fiber world. Upon retiring, she later moved from western New York to the Asheville area for constant inspiration and a great climate. She felts, weaves, stitches shibori, spins and dyes, and now turns most of her cloth into garments. Joan has taught at regional conferences, John C. Campbell Folk School, Convergence® and currently teaches the Sewing for Handwovens course at Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts: Fiber program. One of her happiest experiences was placing first and third in the 2018 Convergence® Fashion Show in Reno. Joan will be teaching at HGA's Convergence® conference taking place July 2022 in Knoxville. |
September 7, 2021: Kira Dominguez Hultgren
generously sponsored by Austin School of Fiber Arts
![]() Kira Dominguez Hultgren is an artist and educator. She studied French postcolonial theory and literature at Princeton University and performance and fine arts in Río Negro, Argentina. With a dual-degree MFA/MA in Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts, her research interests include material and embodied rhetoric, decolonizing material culture, and analyzing textiles as a performative critique against the visual. Her work was featured in the July/August 2020 issue of Architectural Digest. Kira is part-time faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Fiber and Material Studies. |
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September 14 2021: William Storms
generously sponsored by Grace Tully
![]() William Storms is a mathematically driven craftsman who moonlights as a Hand Weaver and daylights as a full-time Jacquard Designer for Crypton Fabric's recently acquired Mill in NC. His handwoven work is an ongoing effort to produce three-dimensionality, in a traditionally two-dimensional world. Combining collapse weave structures with pliable soft metals and Passementrie techniques, Storms is still on a mission to discovering his formula. |
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September 21, 2021: Deborah Jarchow
generously sponsored by Ashford Wheels & Looms ![]() Deborah Jarchow is a full time weaver and artist who teaches and lectures on fiber arts, creates and sells wearable art, and has exhibited her work at galleries and museums across the United States. Her commissioned pieces are held by churches as well as many private collections. Deborah loves helping people discover the joy of weaving and during the past several years, has focused her teaching mainly on rigid heddle looms. She travels extensively to share her weaving enthusiasm and expertise. As a nationally recognized teacher, she is known as a generous educator who makes weaving accessible, exciting, and fun for students of all levels. |
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September 28, 2021: Boisali Biswas
generously sponsored by Michigan League of Handweavers ![]() Boisali Biswas studied at the International University of Vivsa-Bharati in India. This university was founded by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and has a profound impact on her work. She completed her MFA at Bowling Green State University The subject of her work is her own life experiences, thoughts, and surroundings. Living in this country for over three decades, and adapting to Western styles and inspirations in concert with her background, has made her art into a cauldron of multicultural assemblages that are unique and a feast for the eyes. The issue of belonging is meld through her art. |
October 5, 2021: Michael Rohde
generously sponsored by Cameron Taylor-Brown and ARTSgarage
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October 12, 2021: Elin Noble
generously sponsored by Weavers Guild of St. Louis in Memory of Laura Blumenfeld
![]() Elin Noble has a BFA in fiber from University of Washington and studied art history in Florence, Italy. She is the author of Dyes & Paints: A Hands-on Guide to Coloring Fabric. As the former lab Manager at Pro Chemical & Dye, she has a vast understanding of dying. She has exhibited extensively and won a variety of awards. She has appeared on PBS, lectured and conducted workshops throughout North America and internationally. She has lived and traveled all over the world and currently resides in Massachusetts. |
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October 19, 2021: Loren Batt
generously sponsored by Greener Shades
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October 26, 2021: Dawn Edwards
generously sponsored by Michigan League of Handweavers ![]() Dawn Edwards is a felt artist and tutor based in Plainwell, Michigan. She sells her work under the label ‘Felt So Right’ and teaches extensively within the USA and internationally. Her felt art has appeared in numerous exhibitions, shows, magazines and books, including Ellen Bakker's book Worldwide Colours of Felt, several issues of the Australian FELT Magazine, the International Feltmakers' Association Felt Matters journal, HGA's Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, the Russian magazine Felt Fashion. Most recently several of Dawn’s beaded felt hats appeared in the International Feltmakers' Reconnect Exhibition. |
November 2, 2021: Bhakti Ziek
generously sponsored by Heddlecraft®
![]() Bhakti Ziek is internationally known for work that has ranged from backstrap weaving to digital jacquard weaving. She has a M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art, a B.F.A. from the University of Kansas, and a B.A. from SUNY at Stony Brook. Bhakti has lectured and taught workshops throughout the United States and abroad. Her writings on contemporary fiber have been published in many journals, including American Craft, Surface Design Journal, and Fiberarts. She is the co-author, with Alice Schlein, of The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard and Dobby Looms Using Photoshop; and she also co-wrote Weaving on a Backstrap Loom with her mother, Nona Ziek. Her extensive exhibition record includes work in the permanent collection of Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) and the Museum of Arts and Design (New York City, NY). A former college professor, she now offers private workshops in her Santa Fe, NM studio.
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November 9, 2021: Deann Rubin
generously sponsored by Greener Shades
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November 16, 2021: Alanna Wilcox
generously sponsored by Greener Shades
![]() Alanna Wilcox is an art teacher by day and a fiber artist by night. She loves sharing her passion with others and is constantly making things, especially projects that have to do with color and fiber to express her creativity. She earned the OHS Spinning Certificate with distinction in 2015 and the Master Spinner Certificate in 2017. She is the author of the spinning book A New Spin on Color and developed dye formulas to match digital images and colors. She is currently working on a book explaining her dye methodology which will be released later this year. Working with fiber is something that she lives and breathes, sometimes literally.
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November 23, 2021: Kim Winter
generously sponsored by Greener Shades
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November 30, 2021: Char Norman
generously sponsored by Weavers Guild of St. Louis in Memory of Laura Blumenfeld ![]() Char Norman is an accomplished fiber artist specializing in papermaking and fiber sculpture. She received a Master of Fine Art from Claremont Graduate University and a Bachelor of Art from Scripps College. She has lectured and exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. She has developed and conducted workshops for all ages, worked as a consultant to area schools and community arts organizations, and served as a trustee for Greater Columbus Arts Council. Char held the positions of Associate Provost and Dean of Faculty at Columbus College of Art & Design and has now returned to the studio as a full-time professional artist.
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December 7, 2021: Jennifer Moore
generously sponsored by Lunatic Fringe Yarns
![]() Jennifer Moore holds an MFA in Fibers and specializes in exploring mathematical patterns and musical structures in doubleweave wall hangings. She has exhibited throughout the world, receiving numerous awards for her work, and has been featured in many weaving publications. Jennifer lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and travels extensively to teach workshops in doubleweave, color, and geometric design. Jennifer was invited to teach doubleweave to indigenous Quechua weavers in Peru in 2013, where they are once again excelling in this technique which had been discontinued after the Spanish conquest. She is the author of The Weaver’s Studio: Doubleweave, several doubleweave videos and online courses, and numerous articles.
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December 14, 2021: Margo Selby
generously sponsored by Tabby Tree Weaver
![]() Margo Selby is a renowned British textile artist and designer. Her design philosophy is focused on pushing the boundaries of weaving to create contemporary stylish fabrics for a range of textile applications, uniting the very best weavers and high-quality fibers to produce beautifully crafted products.
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December 21, 2021: Molly McLaughlin
generously sponsored by Complex Weavers
![]() Molly McLaughlin is a fiber artist who lives on the New Hampshire seacoast. Her work focuses on transforming the dynamic interplay of color and light found in nature into vibrant and beautiful designs. Molly’s artwork is created by combining a variety of weaving and dyeing techniques that she utilizes to produce harmonious colors and bold compositions. While visiting a large fiber market in 1992, Molly fell in love with all things fiber related. Her passion for the medium led her to start a 30-year journey toward developing weaving and dyeing skills that would allow her to fully express her visual imagery. Molly firmly believes that, as an artistic medium, weaving is versatile enough to create anything, if you can see it clearly enough in your mind. Molly’s fiber work has been exhibited in shows across the U.S., and has won many awards, including The Diane Fabeck Best in Show award at Complexity (2018), and the Cambridge Arts Association Artist of the Year award (2019).
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December 28, 2021: Melanie Olde
generously sponsored by Doreen Trudel in Memory of Esther Dendel ![]() Melanie Olde’s weaving practice is continually driven by curiosity and new learning. Her love of weaving started early, growing up on a goat farm with an engineering father and a mother involved in industrial textiles. At 18 Melanie went on to study jacquard weaving at Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio in Italy at 18 and completed her BA in Textile at the Australian National University in 2002. Her work explores new technology and old, with research interests in biomimetic and mathematical forms, and interpreting these in 3-dimensional loom-woven cloth, including embedded technology and new materials. She also has a keen interest in the history and development of complex woven structures in Asia. Melanie’s professional weaving experience has been in business, research, teaching and exhibiting nationally and internationally. Recently, she has been involved with the Complex Weavers, winning first place in Complexity (2020), and published articles for the Complex Weavers Journal. |
January 4, 2022: Sarah Haskell
generously sponsored by Lunatic Fringe Yarns
![]() Sarah Haskell is an award-winning artist and educator who has been weaving and teaching for over fifty years. She has a BFA in Textiles from Rhode Island School of Design and an MA in Arts/Healing from Wisdom University. Sarah has exhibited at museums and galleries and has been published in FiberArt Now magazine. She is a member of the American Craft Council and the Surface Design Association. Sarah teaches textile workshops that build community and raise self-esteem, for all ages and abilities of learners, in schools and communities from California to Maine.
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January 11, 2022: Laura Strand
generously sponsored by Weavers Guild of St. Louis in Memory of Laura Blumenfeld
![]() Professor Laura Strand, head of Textile Arts at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, has a comprehensive back-ground and formal training in weaving, surface design, papermaking, bookbinding and basketry through a BFA from Georgia State University and an MFA from the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She has exhibited widely and lectured throughout the country. As a working artist her interests include the interface between feminism and visual culture, exploring the connection between the textile field and our Western cultural understanding of "women's work." As an artist and a person she engages in an effort to link the rich heritage of the textile arts with contemporary theoretical discourse.
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January 18, 2022: Jenny Schu
generously sponsored by Michigan League of Handweavers
![]() Jenny Schu has been beading for over 25 years and weaving for 18 years picking up various fiber techniques along the way. She obtained a Bachelors of Fine Arts with a concentration in Fiber Art and a Minor in Art History from the University of Michigan in 2004. Since then her beaded jewelry has been in numerous galleries, currently showing in Lansing, MI; Calumet MI; Grand Rapids, OH; and Petoskey/Traverse City, MI. She has exhibited nationally with the Handweavers Guild of America’s Small Expressions Exhibits, she has been awarded grants and received numerous awards from Michigan League of Handweavers exhibits over the years.
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January 25, 2022: Murray Gibson
generously sponsored by The Woolgatherers ![]() Murray Gibson has been weaving tapestries for more than 30 years. He graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB. He also received his MA in Textiles from Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. He always designs his tapestries so that they reference textiles if not specifically tapestries. In some works he has made direct reference to medieval tapestries in both imagery and technique, but there are also more subtle illusions to cloth through the use of patterning and even the use of a woven border. It is very important to Murray that his concepts and imagery are always best realized in a woven form. In 2015, Murray was named a Master Artisan by Craft Nova Scotia (formerly The Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council). He was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2019. |
February 1, 2022: Susan Martin Maffei
generously sponsored by Lunatic Fringe Yarns
![]() Susan Martin Maffei is an internationally known tapestry artist whose background includes art studies at The Art Students League in New York City, tapestry training at Les Gobelins in Paris, apprenticeship and studio work at the Scheuer Tapestry Studio, New York City and conservation of antique textiles at Artweave Gallery, New York City. She has been weaving her work professionally since 1985. She has taught, lectured and exhibited in the U.S. and abroad and has work in both public and private collections.
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February 8, 2022: David van Buskirk
generously sponsored by Toledo Area Weavers Guild
![]() David van Buskirk has been told that he has a gift for weave. He has never lost his fascination for taking hundreds of separate threads and weaving them into an organic creation. He is drawn to the act of making with his hands. As a weaver, he is always in collaboration with a loom. It is as important to him as the materials his hands work with. Whether complex or simple, weaving requires a mechanism to create warp and weft, the structure on which his art is made.
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February 15, 2022: Cathryn Amidei
generously sponsored by Weavers' Guild of Rochester, Inc.
![]() Cathryn Amidei received a MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and was an Associate Professor there until 2018. After living in Norway for a year working with a loom manufacturer, she traveled extensively, installing, training, teaching, and supporting other weaving artists. Cathryn is well known for her work and teaching with the jacquard loom. Cathryn is currently the leading specialist in Jacquard weaving in the United States. You can now find her at the Digital Weaving Lab at the Praxis Fiber Workshop in Cleveland, OH.
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February 22, 2022: Carol Irving
generously sponsored by Michigan League of Handweavers ![]() Driven by a love for the materials she employs, Carol Irving weaves bright and stimulating images into her rugs. In her work she seeks to convey her passion for fiber, color, and design brought together in excellent craftsmanship. She weaves her richly colored yarns on a loom much the way people have been weaving for centuries. Each rug is a totally unique piece of American Craft. Her designs range from very contemporary and geometric to organic shapes and images. “I am committed to excellent craftsmanship so that my rugs are not only functional but pleasing to look at.” Her work is striking when hung on the wall, visually bold from a distance and tactile in its intricate detail. |
March 1, 2022: Marcy Petrini
generously sponsored by Lunatic Fringe Yarns
![]() Marcy Petrini has been teaching weaving the last 38 years for the Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi which bestowed her the Lifetime Achievement Award. She has been the feature writer for Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot for the last 20 years; she has taught at most Convergences® since 1996. She also has been doing Zoom presentations. |
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March 8, 2022: Angie Parker
generously sponsored by Austin School of Fiber Arts
![]() Angie Parker established her business creating distinctive and intricate rugs and textile art in 2014, and she specializes in hand-weaving using long established techniques, such as Krokbragd. After being taught rug weaving by the late Susan Foster at art college in the 1990’s, she pursued a career in costume for a number of years whilst continuing to weave on small scale collections. She combines her weaving with an instinctive and daring approach to color and it’s the creative process of importing a contemporary element to the time honored techniques of weaving and the responses from the viewer which most excite her. A year spent living in India and more recently, the dynamic graffiti and houses in her Bristol neighborhood, have influenced the fabulously joyful palette which is intrinsic to her weaving.
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March 15, 2022: Norma Smayda
generously sponsored by a Student of Norma Smayda
![]() Norma Smayda, a weaver, teacher, exhibitor, and juror, learned to weave in Norway and occasionally returned to teach. In 1974 she established and continues to run the Saunderstown Weaving School. She has an MFA in Visual Design from UMass-Dartmouth, and has received the HGA Award of Excellence, the NEWS Weaver of Distinction, and the WGB Distinguished Achievement Award. Norma has written articles for various weaving journals and has had work featured in several books. Norma's special interests include Scandinavian weaving, the works of William Henry Harrison Rose and Bertha Gray Hayes, and ondulé weaving with the fan reed. She coauthored Weaving Designs by Bertha Gray Hayes in 2009, and published Ondulé Textiles in 2017. She especially likes weaving functional pieces and reducing complicated designs to as few shafts as possible.
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March 22, 2022: Daryl Lancaster
generously sponsored by Grace Tully
![]() Daryl Lancaster, a hand-weaver and fiber artist known for her award-winning hand-woven fabric and garments, has been constructing garments for more than half a century. She gives lectures and workshops to guilds, conferences, and craft centers all over the United States. The former Features Editor for Handwoven Magazine, she has written more than 100 articles and digital content, frequently contributes to various weaving and sewing publications, including Threads Magazine. She now has a YouTube channel, The Weaver Sews, where she shares her extensive experience sewing handwoven garments.
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March 29, 2022: Alice Schlein
generously sponsored by Michaela McIntosh ![]() A self-taught weaver for the past 40 years, Alice Schlein weaves in her South Carolina studio. She has taught at numerous schools and conferences, including The Penland School and at Convergence® and Complex Weavers Seminars. Her work has been exhibited widely. She is a former contributing editor of Weaver's Magazine, The author of Network Drafting—An Introduction and Co-Author (with Bhakti Ziek) of The Woven Pixel: Designing For Jacquard And Dobby Looms Using Photoshop®.
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April 5, 2022: Robyn Spady
generously sponsored by Weavers' Guild of Boston
![]() Robyn Spady was introduced to handweaving as a baby with her handwoven baby blanket woven by her great-grandmother. Inspired by her blankie, she learned to weave at a young age and has been weaving for over 50 years. She completed HGA's Certificate of Excellence in Handweaving (COE-W) in 2004 with the specialized study Loom-controlled Stitched Double Cloth. Robyn is fascinated by the infinite possibilities of crossing threads and loves coming up with new ideas to create fabric and transform it into something new and exciting. She is committed to turning the weaving world on to double-faced fabrics, four-shaft weaves, uncommon and advanced weave structures, and passementerie techniques. Robyn is also the founder and editor of Heddlecraft® magazine.
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April 12, 2022: Tommye Scanlin
generously sponsored by Schiffer Publishing
![]() Tommye Scanlin is Professor Emerita at the University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, where she began the weaving program in the early 1970s. She explored different ways to create imagery with weaving until at last embracing handwoven tapestry as her medium of choice three decades ago. She is the author of The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver and Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond: Planning and Weaving with Confidence.
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April 19, 2022: Heather Hietala
generously sponsored by Fettah and Karen Anadol
![]() Heather Hietala is a studio artist, educator, and permaculture gardener. She received her BFA in painting and sculpture from the University of New Hampshire and her MFA in textiles from the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth. She has lectured and conducted workshops across North America and internationally. Her work is exhibited in galleries and museums and is included in many private and public collections including the Racine Art Museum, WI, Asheville Art Museum, NC, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Raleigh, NC, Wingate University, Wingate, NC, Agnico Eagle Gold Corporation, Toronto, ON, and the Horn Collection of Contemporary Craft, Little Rock, AK. She has received a NEA Regional Fellowship, a TN Arts Commission Fellowship and two artist residencies at Centrum Center for the Arts (WA). Her work is available at Momentum Gallery, Asheville, NC and Oeno Gallery, Ontario, Canada.
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April 26, 2022: Dianne Totten
generously sponsored by Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild ![]() Dianne Totten has been a weaver and workshop junkie for 40 years and a teacher for twenty-five. She is well known for her garments using “crimp cloth,” a technique she developed and teaches nationally/internationally for guilds and conferences. Her expertise in sewing complements her passion for weaving. She teaches at John C. Campbell Folk School in NC and for guilds and regional conferences in the US and Canada, and at Convergence®. She has two crimp cloth DVD’s available and has been published in SS&D, Handwoven, Weavers, Complex Weavers Journal, and Vävmagasinet, as well as Catherine Ellis’ book, Woven Shibori, Revised and Updated, IP, 2016. |