Natalie Chanin
21 Year Waffle Sweatshirt, 2021
100% Organic Cotton Waffle, 100% Organic Lightweight Jersey, Textile Paint, Machine-Sewn and Hand-Painted in Florence,
21 inches from shoulder; 44 inches at the bust
Courtesy of the artist.

Alabama Chanin is a lifestyle company producing well-designed and thoughtfully made goods for the person and the home. We use 100% organic cotton fabric in our designs, sourced sustainably from seed to fabric-along with repurposed and reclaimed materials.

Coulter Fussell
Doll Quilt #7, 2020
Cotton cloth and batting, wool, polyester, silk
13.5 x 15 inches
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Coulter Fussell is a quilter living in Water Valley, Mississippi. Working with only donated and used textiles, Coulter pushes boundaries in textile craft. She has exhibited works across the country from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, South Carolina. Coulter is a 2021 Museum of Arts and Design Burke Prize Finalist, a 2019 United States Artist Fellow in Craft, the 2019 Visual Arts Inductee into the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and the 2017 Finalist for the SouthArts Southern Prize.

Clare Hu
16 miles from Atlanta, 2021
Overshot Draft (Lee's Surrender), Double Warp Pique, Acrylic Yarn, Cotton Yarn
12 x 11.5 inches
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Clare Hu is an artist and weaver currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She completed her BFA with a focus in Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and has received additional training in textiles from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in the Netherlands. Clare has shown widely in Chicago, IL at No Nation Gallery, Gallery No One, Dfbrl8r, and Sullivan Gallery, and has recently shown at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY and Dream Clinic Project Space in Columbus, OH. She is a past Hambidge Center fellow, and a recent resident at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn.

Cassia Kite
Quilted Collage I, 2021
Fabric and thread on paper
13.25 x 13.25 x 1.5 inches, Framed: 13.25 x 13.25 x 1.5 inches
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Kite created Soundstitching, a multimedia project that transforms color from a hand-stitched image into a musical composition that can be interpreted by a musician and/or performance artist. Kite has been awarded artist in residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center and Hambidge. She is the recipient of the Paul J. Smith Excellence in Fibers Award from the Fiber Art Network, the Dixon Ticonderoga Award of Excellence from the Florida Art Education Association and received the Sarasota Art Educators Association Award for her Francis Schwartz Soundstitching. Kite was born in Nebraska. She earned a BFA and a BS in Art Education from Northwest Missouri State Univ. She completed her MEd. in Curriculum and Instruction from the UF. Kite is the Cross-Curricular Liaison and an Art Instructor at IMG Academy in Florida.

Jack Michael
Flag for National Days of Rest (Personal Size), 2020
Linen with machine- and hand-stitched cotton thread, fabric dye
11 x 15 inches, Framed: 16 x 20 x 2.25 inches
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Michael is an interdisciplinary artist whose work studies utopian longing, ambition, and failure in the context of empathy. Jack is an art and art history educator at Blue Ridge Community as well as adjunct positions at Warren Wilson College and Brevard College. Jack also engages in public speaking and research consultation work to address issues of political extremism, empathy, and deradicalization within contemporary American politics and pedagogy. Jack earned a B.A. in Art from Sewanee and an MFA from GSU. Her/their recent accolades include a transnational weaving on the US-Mexico border fence; teaching residencies; a FATE educator award; a solo show at the Ionion Center for Arts & Culture in Kefalonia, Greece; and a nomination for the Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship.

Lyn Sterling
Montagne Dusk #2, 2016
Handwoven and dyed linen
46 x 39 inches
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TAPESTRIES SERIES Selected Exhibits 'Fine Contemporary Craft' 2019, Artspace, Raleigh, North Carolina 'New South III' 2018, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, Georgia 'Infinity' 2018, Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, Georgia 'Gathered III' 2017, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta RESIDENCY Hambidge Center, 2018, Rabun Gap, GA CUSTOM HANDWOVEN RUG BUSINESS 1982-2016 I created and operated a small business employing local artisans and working in collaboration with a diverse clientele to weave custom rugs. These rugs are in public and private spaces around the world and have been featured in American Craft, Southern Accents, House Beautiful and Architectural Digest.

Meg Pierce
Thinking of you, 2021
Hand stitched vintage handkerchief, organza, cotton, on wooden stretchers
16 x 16 inches
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BA College of New Rochelle MFA Pratt Institute MA Columbia University Teacher of Art - Herricks Public Schools RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS - Hambidge Center for the Arts/ GA Residency Sept 2019 - Tyrone Guthrie Centre/ Ireland /Residency June 2018 - Weir Farm National Historic Site/ CT Residency April 2017 - Hambidge Center for the Arts/ GA Residency Sept 2016 - Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts/ WY Residency January 2016 - Millay Colony for the Arts/ NY Residency September 2014 - Weir Farm/ CT: Artist in Residence, February 2012 - Florida Artists Group Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Award Jan 2010 - John Ringling Towers (Sarasota FL) Individual Artist Award: Visual Art 2010 - Hermitage Artist Retreat/ Fine Art Society of Sarasota FL Residency 2010

Adana Tillman
Adinkrahene, 2020
Appliqued textiles on African Wax fabric with hand embroidery and beading
25 x 36 inches
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Adana Tillman born in Akron, Ohio now working out of Atlanta as a fiber/textile artist, with a concentration on figurative depictions. She first began her exploration into the art of quilting by the instruction of her mother, who herself began sewing at an early age. Her work primarily focuses on the exploration of identity and self-expression of her subjects. With the use of various fabrics, she creates intricate quilted textile portraiture works. Adana was awarded the 2019 Garden Fellowship with TILA studios in Atlanta. She has recently completed a residency with Hambidge Center. Her work has been acquired by collectors nationally. Her work bridges the traditional art of quilting into the modern realm with the use of contemporary fabrics and patterns and exploration of hand sewn techniques.