Studio Schweinfurth (QBL2)

FIBER ART WORKSHOPS 2012

Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY

Faculty Biographies

Robin Blakney-Carlson has been making felt for over seventeen years, and teaches at her Luckystone Feltworks Studio, in the historic Shirt Factory in Glens Falls, NY at the southern edge of the Adirondacks.  Her work has been represented in exhibitions and galleries in New York and New England.  Robin studied at California College of the Arts and Crafts, Munson Williams Proctor School of Art and with numerous master felt makers.  She discovered her passion for feltmaking, after years of intense exploration into a range of fiber arts, at a family vest making workshop led by her sister, internationally known felt maker Polly Stirling.  Robin found in felt the perfect art form- combining color, texture, and fiber in a process that flows into project.  She is fascinated with felt as a medium, fueled by her interest in material culture, apparel design, art, craft and tradition.  In her teaching, Robin loves to communicate this endless creative potential, as feltmaking students open to their own imagination and expressive possibilities.

Robin shares life in Glens Falls with her husband Harry Carlson, their Standard Poodle, two Bedlington Terriers and a Maine Coon Cat.

Read more about Robin on her website: www.luckystonestudio.com

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Terry Jarrard-Dimond is a native of South Carolina and resides in Clemson, South Carolina.  She earned an MFA degree from Clemson University after which she taught at several colleges and universities.  Her work is represented in collections including Coca-Cola International, Atlanta, Georgia, The Federal Reserve Bank, Charlotte, North Carolina, and The State Museum of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Terry’s work has been selected for Art Quilt Elements, Visions, Artist as Quiltmaker, Form Not Function, Quilts=Art=Quilts and Craftforms. Among her awards are 4 awards for Design Excellence and a Best of Show.  Her work is currently touring Europe in Color Improvisations.

Read more about Terry on her website: www.terryjarrarddimond.com

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Originally from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Karen Henderson now resides in the beautiful Green Mountain state of Vermont.  She learned weaving and print design in the textile design program at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA.  For several years, Karen ran the programs for the two fiber studios at Peters Valley Craft Center in NJ.  She has shown her work in high-end craft shows and exhibits, allowing her work to find its' way into many private and corporate collections.  Her work has been published in  “1000 Artisan Textiles”, "The Guild Sourcebook of Residential Art #6", and in Fiberarts, Surface Design Journal, and Selvedge magazines.  Last year, her work was used on the set of the award winning movie “Black Swan”.              

Read more about Karen on her website: www.karenhendersonfiber.com

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Flo Hoppe is a full-time studio artist, teacher, and author.  She began her career in 1971 teaching herself basketmaking from a small booklet published in 1924.  Her emphasis is on wicker basketry and Japanese basketry.  She lived in Japan from 1968-1971, and on a return trip to Japan in 1994 studied with two master basketmakers.  Her published books are entitled “Wicker Basketry”  and “Contemporary Wicker Basketry”.  She has also co-authored “Plaiting with Birch Bark” with Vladimir Yarish and Jim Widess.   She teaches and exhibits worldwide, with teaching venues in England, Canada, Japan, Russia,  and Australia.

Read more about Flo on her website: www.flohoppe.com

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Jan Myers-Newbury is known for her pieced quilts using fabrics hand-dyed with various shibori techniques.  She has exhibited and taught nationally and internationally, having been included in fourteen Quilt National exhibits. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design, the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, the Museum of the American Quilters Society and the American Quilt Study Center; nearly 200 quilts are included in corporate and private collections.  Her quilt Depth of Field: A Plain View was selected as one of the 20th Century’s 100 Best Quilts.  

Currently her teaching is itinerant and confined to workshops in select locations.

Read more about Jan on her website: www.janmyersnewbury.com

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Judy has been marketing her dyed fabrics with the business name Just Imagination for 18 years.  She has been a vendor at quilt shows and conferences throughout the United States, also having international customers.  Judy has taught dyeing in a couple of workshops in 2001; however, she did not teach her own techniques, deciding at that time to focus on selling her fabrics.  Judy started teaching her own techniques at three workshops in 2011.  Self-taught, she uses her intuitive color sense and skills to create unique fabric.  As a teacher, she will emphasize using her practical methods to dye art fabric. 

Read more about Judy on her website: www.justimagination.com

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Carol Soderlund maintains an active teaching schedule through out the US and in Canada, teaching her color mixing techniques at ProChemical & Dye in MA, Nancy Crow's Timer Frame Barn in OH and Pacific Northwest Art School in WA. Her award-winning quilts have been exhibited nationally and internationally in such venues as Visions, Husqvarna Viking Masterpieces Touring Exhibition. For Carol, the ability to dye any color and the increased understanding of the interaction of colors opens the door to spontaneity and intuitive use of color in her work. It is this joyful key to color that she hopes to give her students.

Read more about Carol on her website: www.carolsoderlund.com

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