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GASALI ONIREKE ADEYEMO
Santa Fe, NM
Gasali Onireke Adeyemo is from the small village of Ofatedo, Nigeria. Always interested in art, he attended the Nike Center for Arts and Culture in Nigeria, where he mastered the arts of batik, indigo dyeing, quilt making, embroidery and appliqué. Since then he has conducted workshops and exhibited his work in Africa, Europe and North America. He has recently presented workshops in Santa Fe, NM; World Batik Conference, Boston, MA; Ghana; and Mexico.


SUSAN AVILA
Emeryville, CA
Susan Avila is an assistant professor in the Design Program at the University of California, Davis. Her work has appeared in numerous national and international publications. She widely exhibits her award-winning stitched, embellished constructions both nationally and internationally. Her solo show Byzantine Las Vegas was featured at the 2005 SDA conference. She is co-creator of FiberScene.com, a website for promoting textile art.


BETSY STERLING BENJAMIN
Kingston, NH
Betsy Sterling Benjamin is an award-winning international artist, researcher and author. She is the author of The World of Rozome: Wax Resist Textiles of Japan. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, her exhibitions include group and solo shows in Japan, Indonesia, Germany, UK, Costa Rica and the USA. She coordinated the World Batik Conference-Boston 2005. She has taught at several universities in Japan and now teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and NH Institute of Art.


CLAIRE BENN
Surry, UK
Claire Benn has been working with cloth, wet media and stitch for over 10 years. She is co-author of the book Committed to Cloth (C2C) (2000) and Breakdown Printing (2005). Along with co-author Leslie Morgan, she teaches workshops both in the United Kingdom and other countries. Claire’s work has been shown at various venues in the United Kingdom and abroad, including Never Static (USA), Creative Link II, European Art Quilt ‘04 and ‘06.


ASTRID HILGER BENNETT
Iowa City, IA
Astrid Hilger Bennett is a fiber artist and long-time manager of the 21-year-old Iowa Artisans Gallery. She is a collaborative cultural activist who mentors artists and educates customers, serves as Gallery Walk coordinator and on the Downtown Association Board, and developed the content for the Old Capitol Cultural District website serving both the cultural and commercial visitor.


LAURA BERMAN
Kansas City, MO
Laura Berman is assistant professor and program head of printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute. Laura earned a BFA from NYSCC at Alfred University and an MFA in printmaking from Tulane University in New Orleans. She has worked as an artist-in-residence and as an educator across the country. Laura facilitated over 15 textile exhibitions as the exhibitions coordinator for Uncovering the Surface, SDA’s 2005 conference.


JOY BOUTRUP
Soroe, Denmark
Joy Boutrup is a textile engineer educated in Krefeld, Germany. She was a lecturer at Danmarks Designskole 1973­2000. She has lectured extensively on textile printing, color chemistry and textile technology in the Scandinavian countries, the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan. Joy was the head of the Textile, Paper and Leather Conservation at the National Museum of Denmark, 2000­2003 and is now a freelance lecturer in textile chemistry and technology.


HOLLY BRACKMANN
UKiah, CA
Holly Brackmann is professor of textiles and art history at Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA. She has exhibited and lectured internationally, curated textile and craft exhibitions, published articles in Surface Design Journal and Newsletter, Handwoven, Weavers, and Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot. Her recent book is The Surface Designer’s Handbook: Dyeing, Printing, Painting and Creating Resists on Fabric. (Interweave Press, 2006). She has studied textile techniques and led tours to Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the Americas, and Australia.


JEFFREY M. BRUCE
Quincy, IL
Jeffrey Bruce has 20 years of experience as a fine art photographer specializing in photographing three-dimensional art. His work is seen internationally in books, periodicals, posters and websites. He has photographed work for artists, galleries, museums and collectors throughout North America. Jeffrey combines his formal training as a visual artist with problem-solving skills to find photographic solutions for artists working in diverse media.


MARIA ELENA BUSZEK
Kansas City, MO
Maria Elena Buszek is a critic, curator and assistant professor of modern and contemporary art at the Kansas City Art Institute. She is the author of Pin-Up Grrrls: Feminism: Sexuality, Popular Culture. Her writing has appeared in journals such as Art in America, Womans Art Journal and TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. She is a regular contributor to Bust magazine and currently is at work editing an anthology of critical writing on the role of craft in contemporary art.


ANNA CARLSON
St Paul, MN
Anna Carlson creates her unique garments using surface design, garment design and textile art. Anna has shown her collections across the country in art/craft shows, galleries and specialty boutiques. Carlson received a BS from the University of Minnesota in fashion design and studied at Parsons School of Design, NY and Washington University in St. Louis. She teaches workshops on fashion design and is the author of several articles in national publications.

JIYOUNG CHUNG
Seol, Korea

Jiyoung Chung received her BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in print/media from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her fiber installations have been shown in Korea, Finland and the USA, including the Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, TX and the LaFontsee Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI. She has had several artist residencies and has been introducing “Joomchi,” Korean traditional paper making, and other unconventional drawing/collage methods as a guest lecturer at RISD.


AKEMI NAKANO COHN
Chicago, IL
Akemi Nakano Cohn studied traditional Japanese dyeing/printing techniques for 10 years under the master Haru Izumi. She received an MFA in fiber arts from Cranbrook and a BFA from Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan. Akemi has taught workshops and been a visiting artist in places as diverse as the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago and Zijdelings (Netherlands). She has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in Japan and the United States.


DOSHI
Long Beach, CA
Doshi is a successful artwear designer who has actively marketed her work through galleries for nearly 10 years. While she approaches her business with the stealth of a business maven, the other half of her work is costume design. Doshi teaches and is head of design in the Department of Theatre at California State University, Long Beach. In addition to mastering a unique look in the market, Doshi excels at studio management.


TELIHA DRAHEIM
San Anslemo, CA
Teliha Draheim is a professional designer, writer and industry consultant. As a designer licensing agent, Teliha has produced collections for a variety of products, as well as fabrics and carpets for home furnishings. She has been employed in the textile industry as art director, designer, and marketing specialist. Her fabric designs for home furnishings form part of the Permanent Collection at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in N.Y.C. Teliha holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and has taught at several colleges and universities.


JANE DUNNEWOLD
San Antonio, TX
Jane Dunnewold is a leader in the textile field and author of Complex Cloth (1996) and Improvisational Screen Printing (2003). She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and has been awarded the Quilt Japan Prize and the Gold Prize at the Taegue International Textile Exhibition. Jane writes the Art Cloth Quarterly, a subscription-based journal on textiles and maintains Art Cloth Studios in San Antonio, Texas.


BRIONY JEAN FOY
Madison, WI
Briony Jean Foy designs, weaves and teaches in Madison, Wis. Her work includes one-of-a-kind scarves, shawls and wall and installation pieces. She has taught fiber and design courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Penland School of Art and Craft in North Carolina and in individual and group workshops in the United States and Canada. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.


BEAN GILSDORF
Portland, OR
Bean Gilsdorf is an ardent and dedicated writer.  After graduating from Simon's Rock College , where she won a prestigious Caleb Roosevelt Scholarship for her creative writing, her love for language continued at the University of Colorado , where she earned her MA in Linguistics.  Since 1998, Bean has been teaching English at Portland Community College , helping students to write with clarity and élan.  She also currently works as a writing consultant to Disjecta Interdisciplinary Arts Center in Portland , Oregon , where she composes a variety of documents, including artist & curator solicitation letters, exhibition proposals, and copy for the organization's website.

LORRAINE GLESSNER
Philadelphia, PA
Lorraine Glessner received an MFA in fibers from Tyler School of Art where she is currently an assistant professor. She holds a BS in textile design from Philadelphia University. Recent awards include a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant and Nancie Mattie Emerging Artist Award from Dangenart Gallery in Nashville, TN. She has shown recently at Millersville University, PA and at The Painted Bride in Philadelphia, PA. Lorraine lectures, teaches and exhibits her work nationally.


LISA GREY
Portsmouth, NH
Lisa Grey has been a full-time fiber artist for over 25 years. She has worked extensively with a wide variety of dyeing techniques and various fiber media, including printmaking, quilting, weaving, basketry and creative sewing. Her individual and collaborative artwork is shown in galleries across the country and internationally. She teaches nationally and for Horizons to Go in Provence, France. Her teaching style encourages students to push the boundaries while exploring the “what ifs.”


CHAD ALICE HAGEN
Asheville, NC
Chad Alice Hagen has her BA and MS from University of Wisconsin
and MFA from Cranbrook. Her work has appeared on the covers of Surface Design Journal, Fiberarts and Shuttle, Spindle and Dyepot Magazine and is included in major collections, including The Mint Museum of Art+Design and Minneapolis Institute of Art. Chad teaches workshops in the United States and Europe and is the author of Fabulous Felt Hats (Lark Books 2005) and The Weekend Crafter: Feltmaking (Lark Books 2002). She maintains a full-time felt studio in Asheville, NC.


JILL HEPPENHEIMER
Santa Fe, NM
Jill Heppenheimer is the co-owner of Santa Fe Weaving Gallery and co-director of Design with Heart, a semi-annual fiber conference. Jill has a unique blend of intuitive entrepreneurial spirit, questing intellect and a classical business background. She has worked as a marketing director and strategic planner in large companies and helped entrepreneurs launch and expand their small businesses. Jill offers a fresh take on developing creative confidence and the dance between individuality and business.


PAT HODSON
Sheffield, UK
After studying fine art in the 1960s, Pat’s preoccupation with color led her to explore the luminous quality of dye color and wax on textiles. While the computer has played an increasingly dominant part in Pat’s work, her objective has always been the desire to fuse traditional process with new technology. She experiments with collage and fabric, resists and computer. She has exhibited in many venues in the United Kingdom, as well as other parts of Europe, Asia and the United States. She has extensive teaching and workshop experience.


WENDY HUHN
Dexter, OR
When she is not gallivanting around the country teaching and lecturing, Wendy Huhn works fulltime as a studio artist. Wendy has taught at the University of Oregon, Eugene; Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts; Penland; Peters Valley; M.I.S.S.A, Victoria BC; and for SDA conferences and at many other locations. She is considered a pioneer in the various transfer techniques and has experimented with them extensively for the last 22 years. Her humorous and sometimes controversial quilts have been shown nationally and internationally.


JORIE JOHNSON
Kyoto, Japan
Jorie Johnson has been venturing off-track ever since being introduced to hand-made felt boot-making in Finland in 1977. Born into a Boston wool merchant’s household, she studied textiles at RISD and in Finland with an internship at Marimekko. Her design studio, Joi Rae Textiles, in Boston and Japan, produces limited edition, hand-felted body wear and items for interiors. She leads workshops in the United States and Europe. Her works are in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum and Bank of Boston and have appeared in contemporary textile publications worldwide.


CANDACE KLING
Oakland, CA
Candace Kling’s years of enthusiastic research in ribbon and fabric embellishment have led her to explore museum costume and textile collections across the country. She is the author of The Artful Ribbon
(C&T 1996). Her richly detailed textile sculptures have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Craft & Design and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


CHUNGHIE LEE
Seoul, Korea
Chunghie Lee is a fiber artist and writer whose study of pojagi (Korean wrapping cloths) has inspired her wall pieces, sculpture and wearable works. Chunghie has a BFA and an MFA from Hongik University, Seoul. She has had numerous solo exhibitions in Australia, England, Finland, Taiwan and the United States. Her most recent works are included in The Museum of Art & Design, Textiles in Contemporary Art at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and in the book Jack Lenor Larsen: Creator and Collector.


MELISSA LEVENTON
San Francisco, CA
Melissa Leventon, a founding partner of Curatrix Group Museum Consultants and Appraisers, is a specialist in European and American costume and textiles. She was formerly curator-in-charge of textiles at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She has authored or contributed to many exhibition catalogues and journals; the comprehensive study Artwear: Fashion and Anti-Fashion (2005) is her most recent publication. She teaches fashion history and fashion theory at California College of the Arts and lectures frequently on costume and collecting.


PATRICIA MALARCHER
Englewood, NJ
Patricia Malarcher, editor of Surface Design Journal and SDA Newsletter, has contributed chapters to numerous books, including Objects and Meaning (Scarecrow Press) and Michael James: Art & Inspiration (C&T Publishing). She has written essays for exhibition catalogs, including Generations/Transformations (American Textile History Museum) and Cultures Revealed: Appliques from Around the World (Visual Arts Center at NCSU/Raleigh). A recipient of a James Renwick Fellowship for research in craft criticism, she is also a studio artist whose pieced constructions have been shown internationally.

MARGARET MILLER
Minneapolis, MN

Margaret Miller is executive director and founder of the Textile Center of Minnesota located in Minneapolis. She was hired as the agency’s director in 1996. Margaret is an experienced textile artist and teacher whose hand-woven rugs and tapestries have been exhibited and sold across the country. She previously founded two nonprofit organizations in Wisconsin. Margaret’s organizational skills and her unending dedication to the Textile Center have contributed to the agency’s successful beginnings and rapid growth.


MIKE MILLER
Kansas City, MO
Mike Miller is the founder and publisher of Review Inc. Its nationally distributed print periodical Review provides a venue for emerging and established art historians, curators, artists and writers to publish critical reviews and virtual exhibitions. Review Studios provides studio space, professional development, networking and exhibits to artists in greater Kansas City. Review Inc. is a catalyst for creating an internationally viable visual arts community in greater Kansas City that contributes to the area’s cultural significance and economic sustainability.


SUSAN LOUISE MOYER
Fort Bragg, CA
Susan Louise Moyer is a silk painter, author and educator who has been presenting workshops throughout the United States demonstrating painting on silk and teaching art and design. She is the author of Silk Painting­The Artist’s Guide to Gutta and Wax Resist Techniques (Watson-Guptill 1991) and the revised edition of Silk Painting for Fashion and Fine Art (Watson-Guptill 1991). She also has exhibited her art in galleries across the United States and in Europe and recently has designed for Rebecca Taylor in New York.


DANH C NGUYEN
Rio Linda, CA
Danh C Nguyen is an assistant professor in the Design Program at the University of California, Davis. He holds degrees in both graphic design and architecture. His current professional work and research explore the intersections of multiple design disciplines with particular interest in the areas of typography, surface materiality and pattern systems.


ELIN NOBLE
East Freetown, MA
Elin Noble is the author of Dyes & Paints: A Hands-On Guide to Coloring Fabric. She has a BFA in fiber from the University of Washington. As former lab manager at PRO Chemical & Dye, she worked with all classes of dyes. She has appeared on PBS, lectured and conducted workshops across North America and internationally. Her work was reviewed in Fiberarts and was included in Fiberart International 2004. Elin was nominated for the teacher of the year award for 2005.


JULIA E. PFAFF
Richmond, VA
Julia E. Pfaff received a BA in art history with a minor in printmaking from the University of Toronto and a MFA in textiles from Virginia Commonwealth University. She was a 2000­2001 recipient of an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She exhibits widely, and her work has been seen as part of Quilt National and Quilt Visions. She is currently adjunct faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University.

CLARE PLUG
Napier, New Zealand
Clare Plug has worked as a practicing artist since graduating with a New Zealand Craft Design Certificate in 1990. She uses the quilt medium and her surface design techniques to explore her delight in texture, rhythm and pattern, particularly in relation to her local coastal landscape with its sparseness and limited color schemes. She has exhibited widely, with exhibitions in New Zealand, Australia, Europe and the United States. She has been featured in various international publications, including Fiberarts Book 7 and Surface Design Journal.


JASON POLLEN
Kansas City, MO
Jason Pollen is an internationally recognized artist and teacher known for his fiber art and use of innovative techniques. He exhibits in major fine art galleries and exhibitions in Europe, Asia, and the United States. A native New Yorker, Jason has lived and worked in Paris, London, Zurich, India and Tibet and has taught at the Royal College of Art in London, the Pratt Institute, NY and the Parsons School of Design, NY. He is currently the chair of the Kansas City Art Institute Fiber Department and the president of the Surface Design Association.


ERICA SPITZER RASMUSSEN
Saint Paul, MN
Erica Spitzer Rasmussen is an artist who creates mixed media and handmade paper garments. She received her BFA and MFA at the University of Minnesota which included course work in Mexico and Greece. Her current work explores issues of identity and corporeality, often utilizing clothing as a metaphor for one’s skin. Erica teaches studio arts as an associate professor at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, MN. Her sculptural and wearable works are exhibited internationally.

MARYLYN ROBERT
Eugene, Or

Marilyn Robert creates fiber art in Eugene, Ore. where she teaches at Lane Community College, directing the fibers program in the Art Department. She earned an MFA in fibers from the University of Oregon. She has traveled widely, studied cloth and written articles on art and textiles. Marilyn received a Japan Foundation Fellowship grant in 1997, which she applied to her study of traditional Japanese indigo-dyed cloth and contemporary Japanese textiles.


KAREN SEARLE
St. Paul, MN
Karen Searle is a sculptor whose works in fiber and mixed media have been exhibited over the past 25 years in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Korea. Karen has presented classes, lectures and seminars internationally, has curated exhibitions of fiber art and served on for the jury for the Daegu International Textile Competition, Korea (1997 and 2000). A former publisher of books on ethnic textiles, she writes about the arts for several publications in the United States.


CARTER SMITH
Nahant, MA
Carter Smith is an internationally recognized fabric dyer and couture designer. After starting to tie-dye in 1965, Carter has forged ahead in his field, teaching himself hundreds of unique techniques. Taking inspiration from his dreams, Carter designed over 200 original bias designs in his first year. He teaches that the best teacher we can possibly have is within us, and creation is the process of discovering that connection.


MARY RUTH SMITH
Waco, TX
Mary Ruth Smith, a professor of art at Baylor University, has shown her work extensively throughout the United States and in Canada, England, France, Italy, Taiwan, Ukraine, Costa Rica, Romania and Venezuela. Mary Ruth’s work most recently has been illustrated in Fiberarts Design Books Six and Seven, Surface Design Journal and Embroidery Magazine. She has presented numerous lectures and workshops. Throughout Mary Ruth’s artistic career, the threaded needle has been her primary means of making art and expressing ideas.


JO STEALEY
Columbia, MO
Jo Stealey is professor of art and head of the fiber program at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her work is shown nationally and internationally. She is known for her sculptural works in handmade paper and mixed media techniques that reflect visual metaphor and compelling surfaces. Jo is influenced by family stories, literature, travel and everyday life. She has been recognized nationally for her innovative approaches to her own work as well as her teaching techniques.


YUSUKE TANGE
Kyoto, Japan
Yusuke Tange is a studio artist, kimono designer and executive director of Tange-shin Inc. of Kyoto, Japan. His work has been exhibited in major, annual Japanese exhibitions since 1975, in addition to shows in the United States, Australia and Korea. Tange’s dynamic screens dazzled viewers at The Textile Museum in Washington D.C., during the touring exhibition of Rozome Masters of Japan. He is one of the foremost contemporary kimono designers in Japan, participating in over 20 shows each year across the county.


RITA TREFOIS
Gent, Belgium
Rita Trefois, trained in textile chemistry and decorative art, has 30 years’ experience in the field. Her background in both scientific and artistic education inspires an interplay of technical skill and creativity. Between technique and inspiration, a field of tension exists and where Rita’s art works prosper. Rita has attended and participated as workshop instructor in many international conferences, including Batik 2003; Art in Movement, Ghent, Belgium; the Surface Design Conference in Aarhus, Denmark and the World Batik Conference in Boston, MA.


Sue Hammond West
Boulder, CO
Sue Hammond West combines paint and cloth with the energy of Buddhism and yoga philosophy. Her exhibitions include Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago; and University of Notre Dame. Sue has received awards from the NEA and the Indiana Arts Commission. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently chair of Naropa University’s Visual Arts Department. She aspires to infuse art with a palpable haunting presence.


BHAKTI ZIEK
Cerrillos, NM
Bhakti Ziek, a former college professor, is a renowned weaver, writer, lecturer and teacher. She is co-author, with Alice Schlein, of The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard and Dobby Looms Using Photoshop® (2006). She has combined processes familiar to hand weavers, such as warp painting and warp ikat, with intricate digital imagery that includes text and natural elements. She lives in rural New Mexico in a solar-powered straw bale home where she designs with Photoshop® and sends her designs to Jacquard mills via email.

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