QBL2 FIBER ART WORKSHOPS 2009

Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY

Faculty Biographies

Kerr Grabowski is a fiber artist and teacher known for her innovative approaches to dyeing and screening processes. Kerr’s love of color, pattern and spontaniety is evident in her elegantly whimsical artwear. She is a NJ Arts Fellowship recipient and is the developer of Deconstructed Screen Printing, a technique allowing for a spontaneous, painterly approach to screenprinting. Kerr produced the DVD Deconstructed Screen Printing and has been published in Ornament, Fiber Arts, Surface Design Journal, Fiber Arts Design Book Six and Silk Painting for Fashion and Fine Art. Kerr exhibits and teaches internationally.

Read more about Kerr on her website:  www.kerrgrabowski.com

Rosalie Dace is a South African studio artist who has been working in the fiber art, quilt and embroidery world since 1975. Her work has been widely exhibited and published nationally and internationally, and she has won several awards. She has taught and lectured in South Africa, America, New Zealand and Germany, which has allowed her to indulge her passion for textiles, travel and meeting people.

Read more about Rosalie on her website: www.rosaliedace.co.za

Hollie Heller is a mixed media collage artist living in Bridgewater New Jersey. She describes her work as experimental using processes that she has discovered in her studio using products such as latex, acrylic mediums, wood stain, pigments, dyes and bleach with paper and fabric. She has been teaching Surface Design and Collage for over 20 years in Universities as well as Workshops nationally. Her wall pieces are included in many corporate and private collections including: Hyatt Hotels, HBO World Headquarters, the Arthur Blank Foundation, Mohegan Resorts, Rutgers University and Johnson and Johnson.

Read more about Hollie on her website: www.hollieheller.com

Betsy Hershberg is an award-winning knitting designer and popular knitting instructor who is never happier than when she is sitting in the big red leather chair in her studio, surrounded by colorful yarn, playing with fine fibers, Size 1 knitting needles and teeny, tiny beads. She says that her knitting brain “exploded” when she first learned how to bead knit and cannot conceive of running out of ideas for “what’s next?” Through her business Studio B, she designs and sells a line of bead knitted jewelry.

Read more about Betsy on her website:  www.studiobknits.com