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PRIMO AQUINO
Primo Aquino learned the art of rug making from generations of his Zapotec family and through his own personal experimentation in color and form. He is one of the only weavers in Mexico who weaves round rugs. Primo studied chemistry at the College of Ciudad de Oaxaca. He has used that modern training to supplement his knowledge of traditional dyeing techniques that he learned from his grandparents. He has worked on natural dyeing projects with the Cultural Institute of Oaxaca. He teaches classes and workshops on natural dyeing and weaving in his workshop in Santa Anna Del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico.

LEE BALE
Lee Bale is a surface design artist who wields a silkscreen like a paintbrush. Pattern and image become both a symbolic language and a structure. For the past two decades she has traveled, written, curated and exhibited extensively in both Canada and the United States. and has shown in significant juried exhibitions abroad. Her career as a teacher and artist has been diverse, including work at Parsons School of Design, University of California-Davis, the Art Institute of Chicago, Sheridan College in Ontario, and as project manager for the Ann Hamilton installation at the Henry Art Museum in Seattle. Her work is included in The Surface Designers Art.

JOY BOUTRUP
Joy Boutrup is a textile engineer who was educated in Krefeld, Germany. She has lectured extensively about textile printing, color chemistry and textile technology at Danmarks Designskole and in other Scandinavian countries, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan. She was the head of the Textile, Paper and Leather Conservation Program at the National Museum of Denmark from 2000 to 2003 and is now a free-lance lecturer in textile chemistry and technology.

JEFFREY BRUCE
Jeffrey Bruce has 19 years of experience as a fine art photographer specializing in photographing three-dimensional art. His work is seen internationally in books, periodicals and posters. He has photographed work for artists, galleries, museums and collectors.

JEAN WILLIAMS CACICEDO
Jean Williams Cacicedo was a prime innovator in the Art To Wear Movement and recieved an NEA Fellowship Grant in 1976. Her work in dyed and felted wool cloth has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. In 2000, a 30-year retrospective of her work was featured at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco. Jean is represented by galleries and has her work in private museum collections nationwide. Based in Berkeley, Jean teaches in her studio and has been both teacher and visiting artist in many schools, including CCA in Oakland, Penland School of Crafts, Spilt Rock Arts Program and RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.

DOROTHY CALDWELL

Dorothy Caldwell maintains a studio in Ontario where she has lived and worked for the past 25 years. She co-founded the Canadian Surface Design Organization, and teaches and curates exhibitions. Her work is represented in many permanent collections, including The Museum of Arts and Design in New York and The Canadian Museum of Civilization. She has been featured in Fiberarts, Surface Design Journal and the book The Designers Art. In 1990 she received the Saidye Bronfman Award given to one Canadian artist each year and was nominated for the Governor Generals Award in 2003.

J.R. CAMPBELL AND JEAN L. PARSONS
J.R. Campbell and Jean L. Parsons will be co-teaching. J.R. is an associate professor in textiles and clothing at Iowa State University. He explores the visual, cultural and technological aspects of digital textile printing as he creates connections between two-dimensional print design and three-dimensional forms. He regularly shows artwork in national and international juried exhibitions. Jean Parsons has a professional background in fashion and theater design, and a strong interest in designing apparel that is sculptural in form and does not follow traditional seam placement. Her current interest in digital apparel and textile design evolved through exploration of collaborative design processes with textile artists. Her designs have been shown at galleries and exhibitions both nationally and internationally.

ANNA CARLSON
Anna Carlson creates unique garments that blend beautiful textiles, functional design and exceptional quality. Combining layering, stitching, texturing, coloring with dye and paint, and embroidered drawings, ordinary fabrics are transformed into sumptuous materials. The clothing is designed with classic style, flattering fit and elegant details to enhance the textile designs and to delight the senses of the wearer and those around her. Since 1990, Carlson has been showing her collection across the country in prestigious art/craft shows, galleries and specialty boutiques, and by appointment in her St. Paul, MN studio/showroom. She teaches workshops on fashion design and has written articles for national magazines.

KATHARINE COBEY
Katharine Cobey applies a unique approach to an old craft. In her hands the domesticated skill of knitting is a daring and risk-taking process that turns itself to new creative areas. Her hand knits are not just fabric but are formed into shapes and used sculpturally. Her work has been exhibited in many museums and galleries, including solo shows at the Textile Museum in Washington D.C. and Houston, Texas. Katharine strives for clarity and simplicity in her teaching style and in her own work. She pursues these goals in her Maine studio as well as in workshops nationally. Currently she is completing a book on diagonal knitting.

AKEMI NAKANO COHN
Akemi Nakano Cohn was educated at Cranbrook Academy of Art and at Tama Art University in Tokyo. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been a visiting artist at the University of Nebraska and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center. She has exhibited her work in group and solo shows nationally and internationally. Her commissioned work is in the collections of the Unitarian Church of Evanston, IL, and Loyola University Medical Center. Akemi's work has also appeared in The Best of Silk Painting, American Craft, Fiberarts, Surface Design Journal, and Fiberarts Design Books Five, Six, and Seven.

JUDY DOMINIC
Judy Dominic was introduced to natural fibers while growing up on a farm and has been creating ever since. Her use of natural and odd materials has become a signature as she recycles anything that stands still into her fiber art. Judy displays her work and curates basketry exhibits throughout North America and teaches internationally. She was honored locally in 2001 for enhancing the quality of community life through art. Time spent as a track mom is paying off, as she and her husband support, encourage and watch their three sons race out into the world on their own courses.

DENNIS PAUL DOORDAN
Dennis Paul Doordan is chairman of the Department of Art, Art History and Design at the University of Notre Dame. He is a design historian and co-editor of Design Issues, a journal devoted to the history, theory and criticism of design. He has published books and articles on a wide variety of topics dealing with architecture and design. He served as an exhibition consultant and contributed catalog essays for exhibitions organized by The Art Institute of Chicago, The Carnegie Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, The Toledo Art Museum and the Wolfsonian Foundation in Miami Beach.

JANE DUNNEWOLD
Jane Dunnewold grew up in central Ohio, an area rich in the traditions of sewing and quilt making. Her work has been included in many juried and invitational exhibitions. Jane maintains a private studio in San Antonio, Texas where her focus is printed art cloth. She is the author of Complex Cloth and Improvisational Screen Printing. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions and won the Gold Prize for textiles at the International Fabric Exhibition in Taegu, Korea in 2001.

CATHERINE ELLIS
Catherine Ellis, an artist from North Carolina, divides her time between studio work and teaching in the Professional Fiber Program at Haywood Community College. A weaver for many years, she developed the process of woven shibori and continues to explore new applications of the process. She teaches and exhibits internationally, and her work has been recently published in Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now by Yoshiko Wada, Fiberarts Design Book Seven and The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience. Interweave Press will publish her own book, The Weaver's Studio: Woven Shibori, in the fall of 2005.

DEB ERIKSON
Deb Erikson sees herself primarily as a storyteller. She fuses her life experiences as a biologist, high school computer and science teacher, counselor, digital geek and, finally, as a fiber artist to help create the fullest experience possible for her audience. She incorporates digital graphics in all of her fiber work, either directly by printing on silk or indirectly in the design process. Deb uses her art to illustrate her comments at speaking engagements for groups that include fiber artists, cancer survivors, and mental health and spiritual organizations. Her articles have been published in Spin Off Magazine.

MEHMET GIRGIC
Mehmet Girgic has been a felt maker since he was a teenager, as were his father and grandfather before him. He keeps traditional techniques alive by creating Kece (carpets), Kepeneks (shepherdÕs cloaks) and Sikki (Dervish hats). He has researched and revived many traditional felting methods and has passed on his knowledge to fiber artists who flock to his studio to learn from the Master. His work has been featured in Felt; New Directions for an Ancient Craft and National Geographic. Mehmet has taught classes in the United States and Europe, as well as in his workshop in Konya, Turkey.

RAE GOLD
Rae Gold was trained in graphic design and learned the art of selling art as gallery director and salesperson for Circle Fine Art Corporation, a national publishing company. She is a weaver and crocheter and has been self-employed as a knitwear designer for 20 years. She specializes in felted and dyed coats, jackets, shawls and scarves and sells at ACC shows in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington, and at the Smithsonian Craft Show. Her work has appeared in Ornament Magazine and the Surface Design Journal.

BEVERLY GORDON
Beverly Gordon is a professor of textile and design history and material culture analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her books include Shaker Textile Arts; Feltmaking: Traditions, Techniques and Contemporary Explorations; Bazaars and Fair Ladies: The History of the American Fundraising Fair; and The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, WomenÕs Lives, 1890-1940. She has written articles on subjects ranging from Colonial Revival needlework to the history of crepe paper or Indian beadwork. Her talk The Fiber of Our Lives is also coming out as a book.

LISA GREY
Lisa Grey has been a full-time fiber artist for over 25 years. She has extensively studied and used many dyeing techniques and has worked in various fiber media, including printmaking, quilting, weaving, basketry and creative sewing. Her individual and collaborative two and three-dimensional 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.'

ANA LISA HEDSTROM
Ana Lisa Hedstrom specializes in contemporary adaptations of traditional Japanese Shibori techniques. Her art clothing and interior wall hangings have been exhibited and published internationally and are in the collections of the Oakland Museum, The DeYoung Museum, the Cooper Hewitt Museum and the Museum of Art and Design in New York. Ana Lisa has taught at San Francisco State University and at many summer programs, including Haystack School of Craft and University of Minnesota Split Rock Arts program. She has received two NEA craftsman grants and was elected a fellow of the American Craft Council in 2003.

BONNIE LEE HOLLAND

Bonnie Lee Holland is a studio artist (mixed media and surface design) and consultant in organization development and creative problem solving. As an Artist-in-Education artist for the Maryland State Arts Council, her projects have included a mural, banners, quilts, artist books and wearable art. While a former cultural director of all arts programs for the City of Rockville, MD, she organized both large-scale and smaller community projects, working with city lawyers to develop contracts related to projects. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. and the Katonah Museum of Art in New York.

JORIE JOHNSON
Jorie Johnson was introduced to handmade felt in Finland. Seeking information about the rediscovered technique that is employed for the funky as well as the functional, she has been traveling the world ever since. She interned at Marimekko and opened her own design studio, Joi Rae Textiles, in Boston. Jorie designs hand-felted body wear, accessories and items for interiors. A lecturer at several universities in Japan, she also leads workshops in the United States and Europe. Her work is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum and has appeared in contemporary textile publications worldwide.

CATHERINE JOSLYN
Catherine Joslyn is inspired by cultures she experienced during two years in Peru and other travels. Her work has been exhibited internationally and published in Surface Design Journal and GroveÕs Dictionary of Art. She has created woven tapestries for the Architects Collaborative, Boston, been a visiting artist at the Kansas City Art Institute, and served on the SDA Board of Directors. She is currently a professor and former chairperson of the Art Department at NASAD-accredited Clarion University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches fiber, surface design and African Diaspora arts.

CHRISTINE KELLER
Christine Keller is a German-born, Montreal-based artist whose work combines design, education, hand weaving and technological research. She has been working with Louise LŽmieux BŽrubŽ, specializing in computer-aided hand weaving and has taught in Germany, Mongolia, Australia and Canada. Her award-winning woven and felted design work for the socially engaged 'Handweberei im Rosenwinkel' has been shown worldwide. She is presently a research assistant at the Hexagram Institute of New Media in the Arts, Montreal. In addition to her MFA, she has a degree in product-design. Christine is especially interested in the clash of tradition and new technology and its consequence for the future.

TRACY KRUMM
Tracy Krumm has exhibited internationally in galleries and museums. She is an adjunct faculty at the Kansas City Art Institute and has been guest artist and lecturer at the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Montana and the Memphis College of Art. She has been awarded residencies by the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, NM, Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, MD, and the State of New York at ArtPark. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and resides in many private and corporate collections.

CAROL LeBARON
Carol LeBaron is a professional artist and educator who received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her clamped wool and jacquard work has been exhibited nationally and has won several awards. Her work has been published in the Surface Design Journal. Carol has taught at RISD, the Appalachian Center for Crafts and at Eastern Tennessee State University. She has received a major research grant for her resist explorations on wool.

CHUNGHIE LEE
Chunghie Lee is a fiber artist and writer who lectures extensively worldwide. Her study of Pojagi, Korean traditional wrapping cloths, has inspired wall pieces, sculptures and wearables. Chunghie has exhibited throughout the world. Her works have appeared in Ornament, Fiberarts, Surface Design Journal and Textile Forum, and are also featured in Techno Textiles: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design and the 2000 International Designers Yearbook. She has pieces in many private, corporate and museum collections, including The Victoria & Albert Museum in London, The American Museum of Art and Design in New York, and the Jack Lenor Larsen Foundation.

GINNY O'BRIEN LOHR
Ginny O'Brien Lohr exhibits her art, conducts workshops and has written articles for Surface Design Journal and Fiberarts Magazine. She has taught courses at Buffalo State College in surface design, weaving, and computer-assisted textile design. A registered nurse, Ginny developed a visual arts program for inpatients at Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY. She is teaching this outreach program as part of her responsibilities as education coordinator at the University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery.

WENDY LUGG
Wendy Lugg has exhibited professionally for 20 years. She is an internationally respected artist and teacher, and a Churchill Fellow. Wendy chooses to work with fabric, a lifelong plaything that speaks to her in a way in which no other media does. She cannot resist old fabrics that whisper about their past in every blemish. WendyÕs work is directed by her desire to explore the world and record her response to it. Asia's rich cultural traditions are tantalizingly close to her Western Australian doorstep, and whenever possible she indulges in Asian expeditions, seeking old textiles and new experiences.

PATRICIA MALARCHER
Patricia Malarcher, editor of the Surface Design Journal and SDA Newsletter, has contributed chapters to books including Objects and Meaning (Scarecrow Press), Helena Hernmarck: Tapestry Artist (Byggforlaget) and Michael James: Art & Inspiration (C&T Publishing). She has written essays for exhibition catalogs, including Generations/Transformations (American Textile History Museum), Cultures Revealed: Appliques from Around the World (Visual Arts Center, North Carolina State University/Raleigh) and Threads: Fiber in the '90s (New Jersey Center for Visual Arts). 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.

ELIN NOBLE
Elin Noble is the author of the award-winning book, Dyes & Paints: A Hands-On Guide to Coloring Fabric. Her many years of experimentation and keen interest in how things work add to her vast understanding of dyeing; everything from feathers to paper pulp, and of course, fabric, yarn and thread. As former lab manager at PRO Chem, Elin was responsible for helping troubleshoot customer problems, as well as testing and developing new product applications and writing directions. She has lectured and conducted workshops nationally and internationally. Her work was in Fiberarts and is on the cover of Fine Woodworking Design Book Six.

MARIE O'MAHONY
Marie O'Mahony is an independent consultant specializing in advanced textiles and technology. Her clients include Hussein Chalayan, Zaha M. Hadid, Institut Textile de France, NIKE, Ove Arup and Partners and Seymour Powell. She has curated exhibitions and given lectures and workshops internationally, including at Stanford University (United States), Kobe Design University (Japan), and the British Museum. Three of her books have been published by Thames and Hudson: TechnoTextiles, (co-author); Cyborg, the Man-Machine; and SportsTech (co-author). She is currently working on a revised edition of TechnoTextiles for publication in 2005.

JULIA E. PFAFF
Julia E. Pfaff grew up with a family tradition of quilt making. She earned a degree in art history and printmaking from the University of Toronto, an MFA in textiles from Virginia Commonwealth University and worked as an archaeological illustrator in Greece, Egypt, and Jordan. Julia was a 2000-2001 recipient of an Individual Artist's Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Canada, and Japan and is included in public and private collections. She is currently adjunct faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Department of Fashion Design and Merchandising.

SIGRID PIROCH
Sigrid Piroch is well known to weavers for her computer work, color use, research, original designing, teaching, jurying and many published articles. She is the director of her own teaching studio, ARTS, and has taught numerous classes on history, technique, conservation and computers, both nationally and internationally for museums, guilds, schools and even royalty! She has also exhibited and juried shows all over the world and recently published The Magic of Handweaving: The Basics and Beyond. Sigrid has alpha and beta tested software and loom interfaces since 1984, staying on the cutting edge of new developments.

JASON POLLEN
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 in New York and the Parsons School of Design in New York. He is currently the chair of the Kansas City Art Institute Fiber Department and the president of the Surface Design Association.

ERICA SPITZER RASMUSSEN

Erica Spitzer Rasmussen is an artist who creates mixed media and handmade paper garments. She received her BFA and MFA from the University of MN, Minneapolis, which included course work in Mexico and Greece. Her current work explores issues of identity and corporeality, often utilizing clothing as a metaphor for oneÕs skin. Rasmussen teaches studio arts as an assistant professor at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, MN, and papermaking at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Her sculptural and wearable works are exhibited internationally.


ROWLAND RICKETTS III and CHINAMI RICKETTS
Rowland Ricketts' work with indigo began with a two-year apprenticeship in Tokushima, Japan. He spent one year learning to farm and process the indigo plants and a second year studying the traditional wood-ash lye, natural fermentation indigo vat, as well as shibori techniques. After his apprenticeship, Rowland established a studio and farm with his wife Chinami, a kasuri weaver. Together they farmed and hand-processed the indigo that they used in their work. Rowland and Chinami returned to the United States in 2003 so that he could pursue an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Rowland has exhibited throughout Japan, and his work and writing have appeared in Shuttle Spindle and Dyepot magazine.

BIRD ROSS
Bird's son says: "She was born, but I don't know when; she makes art and enjoys sewing." Bird lives with her furniture-making husband Tom Loeser and their three children in Madison, WI. She has lived in 17 cities in the U.S. and four cities in foreign countries since her birth in 1957. She has her BS in French from Tulane University and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bird enjoys teaching, lecturing and exhibiting globally. Her passion for art making and idea-hatching stems from an insatiable curiosity about the way the concrete and abstract worlds are perceived and manifested.

CAROL SHINN
Carol Shinn is a studio artist from Arizona known internationally for photo-realistic machine-stitched images. She has taught many classes and workshops throughout the United States as well as teaching at Arizona State University and Mesa Community College
in Arizona. Her work is in numerous public and private collections and has been featured in Surface Design Journal, American Craft, Fiberarts, Embroidery, and Georgia Review, as well as in the books Celebrating the Stitch by Barbara Lee Smith, Discovery: 50 Years of Craft Experience edited by Carl Little and Fiberarts Design Books Six and Seven.

MARY RUTH SMITH
Mary Ruth Smith holds a Ph.D. in art education from Florida State University and an MFA in fabric design from The University of Georgia. She is professor of art at Baylor University where she teaches fiber and art education courses. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and in Canada, England, France, Italy, Taiwan and the Ukraine. SmithÕs work has been most recently shown in Fiberarts Design Books Six and Seven, Surface Design Journal, Embroidery Magazine and Art Crowd. She has taught numerous workshops and presented lectures for a variety of professional and lay organizations.

JO STEALEY
Jo Stealey is an associate professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia and head of the fiber program. Her sculptural baskets are exhibited nationally and internationally. She is represented by Thirteen Moons Gallery in Santa Fe and Fountainhead Gallery in Seattle. Notable exhibitions include: Contemporary Baskets No Boundaries organized by the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston, MA; Baskets Now: USA at the Arkansas Arts Center; and A New Era of Sculpture, a traveling exhibition in Taiwan. Her work has been included in Fiber Arts Design Books Three though Seven, as well as in Surface Design Journal and Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot.

JOY STOCKSDALE
Joy Stocksdale received a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA. As a result of studies at GoldsmithÕs College, University of London in 1979, she developed polychromatic screen-printing. Her printed silk garments, hangings and quilts have been exhibited throughout the United States. She has taught workshops at craft schools, guilds and conferences. She is the author of an instructional book on her process, Polychromatic Screen Printing.

YOSHIKO IWAMOTO WADA
Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada is an artist, scholar and curator. She currently serves as president of the World Shibori Network. Past affiliations include: Center for Japanese Studies, UC-Berkeley; The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution; and the National Institute of Design in India. Her artwork has been exhibited in international venues, including the Renwick Gallery, the International Textile Fair in Kyoto, Japan, and the Society for Contemporary Crafts in Pittsburgh. She co-authored Shibori: the Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing, and her book Memory on Cloth: Shibori Now is a classic.

COLETTE WOLFF
Colette Wolff has been studying creative textile techniques for over 30 years. Her art-for-exhibition explores the expressive possibilities of manipulated, sculpted and stitched cloth. She has been sharing her discoveries by teaching at conferences and guilds across the United States and writing continually for commercial publication, as well as self-publishing. Her book, The Art Of Manipulating Fabric, is a reference that all textile artists should have on their shelves.

BHAKTI ZIEK
Bhakti Ziek is a studio weaver who works in her solar, strawbale home in New Mexico. She has exhibited her weavings extensively for 25 years. She is known for enthusiastic writing and lectures on textiles. Her work is included in prestigious collections and has been featured in such magazines as Fiberarts, Surface Design Journal, Threads and American Craft. A former college professor, she has an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art; a BFA from the University of Kansas; and a BA from SUNY at Stony Brook.


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