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Rudy Amann’s teaching career began while he was in high school and college, teaching weaving at a summer camp. After college graduation he taught mathematics for twenty years and was a high school administrator for fifteen years. When approaching retirement, Rudy learned spinning and nalbinding. His spinning mentor was Priscilla Gibson-Roberts and he learned nålbinding from Kate Martinson. He now lives on the coast of Maine, where he mentors at spinning gatherings and teaches workshops. Sue Black originally from Illinois, has lived in Sweden, Maine for almost 30 years where she and her husband, Sam, have been working on their 190 year old connected farmhouse. Her main interests include early textiles and the tools used to produce them. She has demonstrated at several historical sites as well as making hats and other items for reenactors. There is always something new to try. She has taught workshops on Kumihimo, card weaving, inkle weaving, lucet braiding, spinning, and 4 harness weaving for the past several years. What pleases her most is the opportunity to share her interests and skills with others. Janet Conner is an avid rug maker who has exhibited at the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, Maine, at the Portland Public Library, and the Local Color Art Gallery in Cornish. Her work was accepted in Philadelphia at the juried Moore College of Art Alumnae Exhibition of 2004. The same year she had a solo show at the Maine Fiber Arts Center in Topsham, Maine. 2005 exhibitions included a solo retrospective at the Bridgton Arts Guild Gallery and The Point Comfort Fiber Arts Gallery in Waldoboro, Maine. She is a member of the Saco Valley Fiber Artists, Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild, and the Maine Education Association. Recently selected as one of the 200 Best Traditional American Craftsmen by Early American Life Magazine’s jury of curators from Historic Williamsburg, Sturbridge Village, and Shelburne Museum, Janet continues to find her greatest joy in teaching and sharing rug hooking with others. Her latest venture has been the design of antique reproduction Penny Rugs. www.jconnerhookedrugs.com Nancy Dorian is a fiber artist residing in Northampton Massachusetts with a degree in Interior Design and Fine Arts minor in Ceramics. Her company now & ZEN art to wear emerged from the belief that joy comes from doing what you love. Pottery, stained glass and jewelry are a few of her mediums, but she now works primarily with fiber. Nancy has taught fiber arts in many venues including New England Felting Supply, WEBS, Holyoke Community College, Fletcher Farm School for the arts and crafts, Bead + Fiber and her home studio. She creates one-of-a-kind artwear using techniques including Nuno Felting, Fiber Etching and Serti silk painting. Her work has been spotlighted in The Daily Hampshire Gazette, The Republican and Preview Massachusetts Magazine and can be found at galleries and boutiques throughout New England and on Nantucket. Find out more about her at www.nancydorian.com. Ellen Hedglin is a Mixed Media and Fiber Artist who takes her inspiration from her travels and the natural world around her. She most enjoys working with fiber, glass and metal. She has shown her work at Elliott Gallery in Bermuda as an artist in residence and at the Fryeburg Fair Fiber Center as the featured artist . Ellen resides in Steep Falls, ME and continues her education at Maine College of Art, and by taking workshops. She enjoys teaching fiber art and jewelry workshops to both adults and children. Ellen also teaches Art and Nature at Center Day Camp in the summer. Sue Hoople is a master of funk and flash. She can take anything and give it a unique fiber spin. She has been playing with and learning many aspects of fiber art for more than twenty years including knitting, spinning, felting, fusion and dyeing. She can take a tired pair of shoes and give them new life as felted slippers or create an outfit complete with drapey scarf in colors that swirl and compliment the individual pieces. You never know what she will do next. Fiber in her hands can be turned in any direction her imagination happens to go. She constantly surprises those who know her with her never-ending experiments. She is always seeking new ways to express her creative side. Perhaps it is appropriate that she lives in Freedom, NH. Rose Ann Hunter lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts. She has been interested in Needle Arts for the past 50 years and has been teaching workshops for the past 20 years. In 2005 she was chosen as Craftsperson in Residence at Sturbridge Village and is still teaching and demonstrating in the village. Chosen to teach at several other living history museums, Rose Ann lectures to historical societies, guilds, and conferences throughout New England and beyond. She has adapted and developed over 30 different techniques for traditional rug making. www.roseannhunter.com Donna Kay For over 25 years Donna Kay has been a professional knitting teacher and designer. She has a passion for traditional knitting and spinning and enjoys sharing her expertise with others. As well as teaching nationally and locally she designs for yarn companies and various publications, including Knitter’s Stash. In order to further promote traditional knitting she started her own design company, Tree of Life Designs. Donna lives on a farm in NH with her husband and family where they keep oxen, sheep and horses. She has been teaching knitting since 1983 and spinning since 1997. Anna Low, a Portland, Maine bookbinder, made her first book in kindergarten - a simple, stab bound book. Making books has stuck with her ever since. In college she took a bookbinding class and was introduced to bookbinding as an art form, both in terms of content and structure. This is when the obsessive binding started. After a while she had to unload her ‘test’ books on friends and family to make room for new ones. Seeing her books being use helped her realize how much she enjoyed making functional art. There is always a new book experiment being worked on in her studio. Each book she makes is unique. There are too many beautiful papers and fabric to ever make the same book twice. Her blank books for sale (on Etsy, in local shops and at art fairs) are carefully crafted to be both functional and aesthetically pleasing, in hopes they will inspire people to fill the pages with thoughtful writing and drawings, whether that be detailed garden notes, poetry, or artful collages. Visit her website at purplebeanbindery.com Roberta McClellan is a multi-talented person. She has been weaving New England splint baskets for about 20 years and is juried with the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. In addition to the many styles of baskets she makes, Bert is a spinner, knitter and dyer with a good sized flock of sheep. Her animals and her garden give her great satisfaction. She participates as a vendor and demonstrator at many New England fairs and events. Melanie Moore is a fiber artist with a passion for natural living and making simple enchanting toys. She has been making dolls and little fairies since the birth of her first daughter in 2007. She lives in Conway New Hampshire with her young family in a house overflowing with love. moorefibers.etsy.com Rindy O'Brien Lorinda O'Brien (or "Rindy" as her friends call her) first picked up knitting needles when she was seven and started crocheting about age ten. She hasn't been without a project since that time. In the years to follow Lorinda did needlepoint, crewel, cross stitch and sewing in addition to knitting and crocheting. In 1986 she bought her first spinning wheel and her life took yet another direction. Lorinda has been selling wheels and teaching spinning since 1990 and still delights in a new student's progress. During the past 20 years she has taken courses and master classes in spinning and knitting from local, national and internationally known experts to improve her techniques and teaching skills. www.downhomecompany.com Kendra Rafford Kendra Rafford's career in fiber arts began 18 years ago when she first started working at Halcyon Yarn, in Bath Maine. Being surrounded by all the colors and fiber ignited her love of the fiber arts. And oh what a fire it created. After years of taking classes with well known fiber artists and countless hours of experimentation on her own, she is now an accomplished fiber artist who creates patterns, felts, knits, spins, and weaves. She specializes in felting, with a strong focus on Nuno felting. Trained as a teacher, it was natural for her to introduce others to the world of fiber arts. Today, she demonstrates and teaches fiber arts at shops and in local schools, sells her work privately under Maine Fiberworks and continues to work part-time at Halcyon Yarn, all while raising 3 boys. Consuelo Stacy : I immigrated to the US from Cuba at the age of 12, by then I had been knitting for four years. That was 50 years ago. Occasionally I have wondered off into weaving and spinning but knitting was always been closest to my heart. After retiring from a corporate career seven years ago I began to teach formally. I say formally because I have taught friends to knit one-on-one for years. Those that have stuck with it gather for “Knitting Camp” at my Maine summer home in October… always learning. Those formal classes happened in places where Snowbirds gather in the winter: Arizona some winters, Jekyll Island, Ga. other winters. Summers brought workshops at my home and Fiber College, Searsport, ME. Now I start a new adventure teaching at PMFA. Linda Whiting grew up in a creative atmosphere, always “making things”, and has worked in a variety of mediums but her love of color brought her back to fiber. In addition to learning new techniques herself she most enjoys meeting new people and encouraging them to take pleasure in the fiber arts. In addition to teaching workshops designed to help people feel comfortable using color she demonstrates spinning, dyeing, and tapestry weaving at fiber events in Maine and New Hampshire and in schools, at fairs and local historical sites. She owns two sheep, enough to keep her in fiber. www.pinestarstudio.com Julie Yarbrough is a trained studio artist who has lifted her hand in many artistic endeavors. Her work is greatly influenced by her wild sense of humor and imagination. Ideas percolate at the drop of a word, a flash of color. Always ready with an “off the wall” observation, you never know where it will lead her and what wonder it will lead her to create. Julie’s felting tools and felted critters can be found in catalogs and fiber shops. She teaches and demonstrates needle felting and other fiber arts at local events and takes pleasure in flights of fancy. www.kickthemoonfarm.com
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