www.roxannebrownart.wixsite.com/site, @rbrown8383

A daily dose of fabric, threads, and yarn is nearly as essential to me as breathing. For as long as I can remember, I have sought out the tactile satisfaction of creating with fibers. I am mostly self-taught, but completed a 2-year fiber program at the Worcester Center for Crafts (Worcester, MA) in the early 1990's. Upon graduation, I received the annual David Morreale memorial award for outstanding achievement. I returned to full-time attention to my art in mid-2021. My present work focuses on "thread painting" with a sewing machine. The natural world is my constant inspiration. Texture and close-up details catch my eye: for instance, the vein patterns of leaves illuminated by the sun. I constantly explore how to depict the textures and colors and majestic emotions of the natural world with fiber as my medium. I most often begin with one of my own photographs, enlarged and perhaps digitally manipulated to better understand light and shadows. As the stitching begins, some "editing" happens as the thread layers build onto one another. Each piece develops in its own way and, like nature, is never entirely predictable.

www.kathycolt.com, @kathycoltartisan

Kathy Colt is an Atlanta-based textile and fiber artist/designer. While working toward a degree in Landscape Architecture in the early 1990's, she began exploring cloth and fiber in earnest. Since that time she has continued to create with textile and fiber techniques, including nuno felting, cloth surface enrichment (dyeing, printing and painting on cloth - frequently for her micro apparel line, Petal-una Collection), as well as cloth & fiber-based free-form 3D and relief constructions. Kathy has shown in both Atlanta-area and national exhibitions, including the American Craft Council shows in Atlanta and San Francisco. She has also taught workshops and presented on a variety of topics/textile techniques including nuno felting, surface design on cloth, indigo dyeing, and "slow" textiles.

www.instagram.com/flagmountain.studio

Angela Eastman is an artist and teacher from Hillsborough, North Carolina. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art and completed the Core Fellowship program at Penland School of Crafts, and has participated in numerous residencies, including at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME), the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts (GA), MASS MoCA (MA), Vermont Studio Center (VT), the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild (NY), Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (OR), Talking Dolls (MI), the Ragdale Foundation (IL), and SIM and Nes residencies in Iceland. Angela is currently the Artist-in-Residence at the John C Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. In addition to sculptural work, Angela creates jewelry, baskets, furniture, and other home goods through her design business Flag Mountain Studio. Angela also teaches art workshops to adults and youth. She is an advocate for craft education as a vital component of understanding the material world we live in.

www.thesignatureshop.com

Charles D. Gandy, a TKGA Master Knitter, learned to knit at the age of four from his mother, a designer and shop owner. A two-time winner in Knitter's Magazine "Think Outside the Sox" contest, three of his designs are featured in the book of the same name: "Dread Sox", "Snake in the Grass" and "Pedicure Polka Socks". His own book, The Embellished Sock: Knitted Art for the Foot" features eighteen creative patterns and numerous techniques and is available in yarn shops worldwide. His latest collections "Crazy Socks" and "MORE Crazy Socks" for REGIA Yarns have been received worldwide. He is a popular teacher at workshops and conferences worldwide. BEYOND THE SOCK, Knitted Art by Charles Gandy, featuring 28 one-of-a-kind sculptural socks was shown at The Bascom, A Center for The Arts in Highlands, NC from March 12 - June 12, 2016. His work placed as a semi-finalist in the 28th Annual World of Wearable Art in Wellington, New Zealand and later was on display at the 7th Wearable Expressions at the Palos Verdes Art Center in California. In February of 2022, HIDDEN FACES: Knitted Masks premiered at Atlanta's Signature Contemporary Crafts Gallery

Www.lindahallart.com

Linda got her MFA from university of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a practicing artist in Tallahassee. Her sculptures, performances and paintings have been shown regionally, nationally and internationally. Her work is also in several museum collections in the South. Her works have been featured in publications such as Oxford American, Five Points, Raw Vision and New American painting. She maintains a studio in the Smokey Hollow neighborhood in Tallahassee

www.instagram.com/bifoli2

Beverly Tu is a fashion designer and mixed-media artist currently based in Taiwan. She received her AAS in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design in 2017. Tu has showcased her collections at Atlantic City Fashion Week 2019-2021, StylePointe Fashion Show 2019, and Designer Runway competition 2017. Her other creative projects and curatorial works have been shown at Central Park, El Barrio's Artspace PS109, New York Live Arts, Chashama Space, Trestle Gallery, La Bodega Gallery, and Ground Floor Gallery, among others. Tu was an Artist in Residence at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and Brashnar Creative Project in Skopje, Macedonia in 2018. She participated in the NYFA immigrant artist mentoring program in 2019 and participated in the Bead Project at UrbanGlass in 2021. She was awarded The Leisa Rich Distinguished Fellowship for Fiber Artists in 2022 at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences.

www.annevincent.com

Anne Vincent (1952-2020). Anne received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia and worked as a commercial and residential interior designer for 30 years with several Atlanta firms, notably Hendrick Associates. After taking a Saturday nunofelting class with friends Chastain Park, she was fascinated by the possibilities of working with wool, silk and dyes. In 2008, she retired from interior design to devote her full energies to this aspect of the textile field. She loved this creative process. It became her "passion". Her work has been shown across the country in multiple American Craft Council Shows and other venues. She took special joy in the many friends who wore her work.

www.annevincent.com

Anne Vincent (1952-2020). Anne received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia and worked as a commercial and residential interior designer for 30 years with several Atlanta firms, notably Hendrick Associates. After taking a Saturday nunofelting class with friends Chastain Park, she was fascinated by the possibilities of working with wool, silk and dyes. In 2008, she retired from interior design to devote her full energies to this aspect of the textile field. She loved this creative process. It became her "passion". Her work has been shown across the country in multiple American Craft Council Shows and other venues. She took special joy in the many friends who wore her work.