Frieda Anderson
I made my first quilt when I was in high school. I have always made things, and I love the process of creating. In college I majored in Art History and minored in ceramics, but I returned to fiber because it was more satisfying. I can’t remember when I didn’t sew. For years my focus was designing and making clothing. All that changed in 1992, however, when I was in fashion design and realized that all I wanted to do was make quilts. I have been designing and making original quilts ever since.
Astrid Hilger Bennett
To me, successful art works in any medium are a balance of complex forms. I juxtapose active forms with quiet, inward ones, motion with stillness. In music, the silence between notes is just as important as the notes themselves.
Shelly Brucar
Colors, textures and patterns on fabric fascinate and energize me. I use cloth, dyes and thread as a painter uses canvas and paint. I start with white fabric, dye it, screen it, put color in, take color out, paint it and stitch it. I have gradually moved from layering of fabric to more whole-cloth surface design and from mostly representational to more impressionistic, allowing the piece to lead and inspire.
Kathie Briggs
Kathie’s love of fabrics began when she made her own dress for a 7th grade party. Over the years she has enjoyed sewing fashion and home dec projects and well as designing fiber art dolls. For the past decade her passion has been art quilts. She finds inspiration in the flora and fauna of northern Michigan where every season bring new wonders.
Clairan Ferrono
I began my creative life as a writer of poetry, and have recently felt the lack of poetry in daily world. I decided to make work inspired by some of my favorite poems.
Linda Witte Henke
I am drawn to the textile medium by its vibrant palette, tactile richness, and endless versatility. I especially enjoy creating work that begins with a blank palette of white fabric, which then comes to life through multiple layers of dyes, paints, paper, foil, stitching, and embellishment.
Peg Keeney
Peg Keeney Fiber Artist
Carolyn Nilles
Carolyn Nilles Fiber Artist Carolyn is a Fashion Designer and Artisan who handcrafts unique, customized apparel and accessories for her own label, ‘Carolyn’s Closet’. She has loved sewing since she was a child, when she would get scraps of fabric from her mother and, without a pattern, made doll clothes. Her formal training started in [...]
Casey Puetz
Casey Puetz is an award-winning, published fiber and mixed media artist whose work has been juried into exhibits including but not limited to the Whistler House Museum of Art, the Gerald Ford Museum and Presidential Library, and the Manhattan Arts International Gallery. Additional venues include the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, the LaConner Quilt Museum, the Arts Center Great Hall in Christchurch, New Zealand and the Third International Textile Symposium in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Joan Potter Thomas
I think of both my life and my art as a continuous struggle for balance. The creative process versus the necessity of business; hours in my studio versus hours at home; the freedom of a messy workspace versus knowing where to find things. I juggle two mediums in my art as well–fibers and figures. Upon reflection, I realize these daily walks across the tightropes define and enrich me–I’m a better person and artist because I’ve chosen not to focus.
Laura Wasilowski
Laura Wasilowski is a textile artist, author, teacher, and creator of hand dyed fabrics and threads. She has an undergraduate degree in Costuming from the College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN and a Master of Art degree in Fiber from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL.
Monika Wilk
Monika Wilk Bobbin Lace
Trish Williams
Trish Williams Fiber Artist
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