Member Artists
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Mimi Anderson
Mimi Anderson has been creating with fibers for more than 40 years. She creates one-of-a-kind garments and scarves, as well as hand woven items for the home. She loves designing weavings on the computer, then weaving those designs (or not) on 24 and 32-shaft compu-dobby looms. She can also be found in the dye kitchen, painting yarns.
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Fine Gelfand
Fine has practiced her skills for over 50 years. She is focused on surface design (dyeing, printing, painting on fabric) and working with felting. She now enjoys making millinery, accessories and art to wear inspired by Japanese dyeing techniques.
Her one-of-a-kind garments involve complex felting and dyeing.
Occasionally, Fine also creates wall pieces, often drawing on natural materials as inspiration. -
Marcy Johnson
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Marcy has designed and produced a line of woven scarves, blankets, baskets, books and jewelry. She has participated for over 50 years in regional and international exhibits. Marcy also teaches workshops in basketry, spinning, weaving, papermaking and bookbinding.
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Linda Kubik
Linda Kubik is a designer, sewing educator and weaver. She has provided countless home sewers the opportunity of sewing with handwoven fabric. Her pattern line, Elements, currently has 17 patterns.
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Dorothy McGuinness
Dorothy McGuinness (Everett) is a fiber artist using watercolor paper painted with acrylic paint that is cut into strips and woven into sculptural baskets using diagonal twills and mad weave. She has been weaving baskets for 35 years and working with paper for 22 years.