| Swati Agarwal |
Swati graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London in 2008 with an MA in Textile Design. Her undergraduate degree is also in textiles and she specialized in hand weaving. She likes to combine a number of textile techniques such as embroidery, felting and weaving in her projects, and she is interested in learning new skills and combining them in her work. |
| Allyson Archibald |
Allyson Archibald graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2001 with BFA degrees in Interior Design and Fiber Arts. She is experienced in a number of "fiber" techniques, and has been weaving since 1992. She is interested in learning new skills, and combining various techniques within her work. Currently she is self-employed, and working on a variety of projects. |
| Elaine Bradley |
Elaine Bradley has studied at Haystack, Penland, Chastain Art Center, and the John C. Campbell Folk School. Her work has been published in Weaver's and Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot. In addition to teaching frequently for CHG and other fiber guilds, she has taught at Arrowmont, Campbell Folk School, and HGA's Convergence. |
| Leslie Bronson |
My grandmother taught me to knit when I was a young girl. I learned to spin yarn as an art student at the University of Georgia. After graduating in 1985, I bought my first spinning wheel, and I have been enchanted with spinning yarn ever since. I’ve studied many textile traditions such as Navajo rugs, Shaker textiles, Guatemalan weaving, and Scottish spinning. I teach at the John C. Campbell Folk School, local guilds, museums, and shops. Creating hand-spun yarn is magical. I enjoy sharing my love of yarn and textiles with others. I try to instruct and inspire my students in a relaxed and nurturing environment that emphasizes good craftsmanship and creativity. |
| Yvonne Dauria |
Yvonne Dauria has been weaving baskets since 1985 and teaching the art form since 1990. She uses these techniques in the sculptures she creates. Her work can be seen in several galleries throughout the Southeast. Yvonne's website is www.sacredearthcreations.com. |
| Ann Doherty |
Ann Doherty has been weaving since 1990. She earned the City and Guilds Certificate in Weaving and Dyeing, Part 1, from the City and Guilds of London Institute in 1994. She teaches weaving at CHG and at Callanwolde Art Center. |
| Nancy Dugger |
I first found my passion for weaving in 1964. I finally completed a Bachelor of Fine Art in Textile and Surface Design in 1994 and began a career in carpet design. A workshop with Pat Williams rekindled my interest in tapestry weaving that I have actively pursued ever since, taking workshops with Tommye Scanlin, Pat Williams, Archie Brennan, and Susan Martin Maffei. Now retired, I would like to inspire others to see the creative possibilities in tapestry techniques. |
| Molly Elkind |
Molly earned an MA in Studio Art with a concentration in Fibers from the University of Louisville in 2002. Molly’s mixed media embroideries, handmade paper sculptures, wall hangings, collages and artist’s books have been exhibited in juried shows locally and nationally, and she has been published in Arts Across Kentucky, Needlearts, SAQA Journal, and Shuttle, Spindle, Dyepot magazines. Her work is in several private collections. Molly also holds a B.A. and M.A. in English and has over twenty years of experience teaching students of all ages. Molly has taught art workshops and professional development sessions in schools, museums, community art centers, and in private classes since 1999. She also happily accepts commissioned projects and does liturgical work. |
| Sandy Fields |
Sandy Fields taught herself to spin with internet instructions in 2002 using a heavy 4 oz Ashford spindle and wool 'mystery' roving she bought on Ebay. Sandy joined the "Spindlers" Yahoo group and made herself a lighter spindle and her spinning improved immediately. Then, she joined the Peachtree Handspinners Guild, met 'real' spinners, and she learned more. Now, Sandy has a spinning wheel, and she continues to learn. |
| Christy Foelsch |
Christy Foelsch is a self taught local mixed media artist living in the Atlanta area. She is a single mother of three adult sons and the grandmother of a very smart grandson. Her passions include storytelling, knitting, weaving, felting, clay and music. During the school months she's busy teaching piano and is resident Storyteller at several Atlanta area schools, that also offer Kids Go Wild Storytelling Theatre as an after school Performing Art program. Her summers are filled with her outdoor nature camps, "Kids Go Wild" LLC, www.kidsgowild.me, that run from May through August. Christy began offering Adult classes / workshop at the request of her campers parents. Tapping into the creative has no age limits! |
| Mary Fleming-Netland |
Mary Fleming-Netland has been involved with weaving for over 20 years. She has been a member of the Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild during that time, and has served on the Guild Board. She has taken numerous fiber workshops, has developed a special interest in Kumihimo, and has taught the beginning class for the Guild. |
| Cindy Fox |
Cindy began to explore weaving in the 1990s with basket weaving and later became captivated by floor loom weaving. She enjoys pursuing various weave structures and techniques and is partial to unique yarn combinations. As a member of CHG, she has served on the board as a past membership chair and chair of the 2006 Members’ Exhibit. Her handwoven pieces recently won awards at the 2010 Georgia National Fair. |
| Susan Gilmurray |
Susan Gilmurray has a MFA in Weaving from Carnegie Mellon University. She is author of Weaving Tricks and has taught at the Arts and Crafts Center of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. She has lectured and given workshops on primitive weaving, finishes and macramé. Her exhibitions include a one woman invitational at the Museum of Art Carnegie Institute. |
| Kathi Grupp |
Kathi learned to weave as an art student at the University of Kentucky. She continued to learn more about weaving by taking classes through the Chattahoohee Handweavers Guild, John Campbell Folk Art School and Callonwald Art Center. She is currently an active member of both the Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild and the Handweavers Guild of America. She has two young boys whom she can't get to try the loom...yet. |
| Kay Guilmet |
Kay Guilmet's degree is in art education, and she has been weaving for over 30 years. She began teaching weaving in Syracuse, New York during the early 70's. She has taught for CHG, at the Fine Arts Center in Gwinnett County, and at Callanwolde Art Center. Her work has been featured in juried shows and she has won prizes with her work at the Georgia National Fair. Her specialty is handwoven clothing. |
| Pam Haas |
Pam is a textile artist who has worked with fiber and fabric for over 20 years. She has a wide range of experience working with children and ran her own art-based summer camp for 3 years. Her specialties are surface design and 3 dimensional forms. |
| Jo-Marie Karst |
Jo-Marie Karst discovered weaving as a student at North Georgia College and State University in 1998. She studied various weave structures, design, dye application, and bead weaving. She has taught workshops in weaving at the Archibald Smith Plantation and The Folkway Center. She provides handweaving demonstrations for schools and civic events. |
| Pat King |
Pat King's interest in textiles began with learning to crochet. She expanded her interests when she learned to spin and weave in Columbus, Ohio. That interest continued when she moved to Georgia and joined CHG. At this time, her main interest is dyeing (especially shibori) but quilting has distracted her for the last few years. She has studied at Georgia State, Arrowmont, and the John C. Campbell Folk School and has taken quilting classes with Mickey Dupree and Carol Taylor. The next step is using her dyed fabrics. |
| Laura Klein |
Laura Klein studies weaving with the Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild. In addition, she is active in other fiber arts including spinning, dying, kumihimo, quilting and needle work. Laura is active in the canine sports of agility and schutzhund and spent many years teaching competative agiltiy students. |
| Judith Krone |
Judith Krone is a fiber artist who specializes in one-of-a-kind, hand-woven designs. Her love of historic Japanese textiles has inspired her to create contemporary fabric using ancient techniques. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Theatre from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and her M.F.A. from the School of Art and Design at Georgia State University. She has won numerous awards and has exhibited her work throughout the United States. Judith also teaches at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center. Her work and techniques have been included in Handwoven Magazine and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. |
| Jennifer LeCroy |
Jennifer Lecroy has been weaving since 1988. She served as supervisor of the Weaving Program at Berry College for 10 year. She has taught chair caning classes through continuing education departments, state parks, and history centers throughout Georgia. |
| Karen Linhart |
Karen Linhart has been knitting since her early teens and in 2007 became a Master Knitter through The Knitting Guild As-sociation's Master Hand Knitting Program. She is currently working towards the second level of the program. She has taught a basic knitting class at the Chastain Arts Center and gives private instruction on request. Karen's knitting experience is from the simple to advance. Some projects have included modifying patterns for personalized fit, knitting complex knit-ted patterns and, multi-color knitting (intarsia and Fair Isle). Karen retired in 2004 after 35 years in the technology industry. With retirement has come the opportunity to explore more advance knitting and experimenting with some of the many new and beautiful yarns that are always being introduced. |
| Lynn Pollard |
Lynn Pollard learned to weave through the guild beginning in 1978 and has benefited from many wonderful workshop leaders and fellow guild members. In the 1980's, she returned to school to earn a Bachelors of Textile Engineering from Georgia Tech. She now produces one of a kind textiles including clothing and architectural textiles and does custom work that ranges from the reproduction of historical costumes to high tech textiles. She has exhibited locally and nationally, has won a number of awards, and has taught in local craft centers. |
| Dinah Rose |
Dinah has been a fiber artist all her life. She learned to weave in 1995 after making clothes for herself and her family for many years. She taught quilting classes while working at a quilt shop and also while selling sewing machines. She enjoys using her love of math, weave structure, color and yarn in creative ways in weaving. |
| Tommye Scanlin |
Tommye Scanlin, professor emerita of art, North Georgia College & State University, has been weaving tapestry for over two decades. Her work has been included in numerous exhibits and in three Fiberarts Design Books. She teaches tapestry at John C. Campbell Folk School and also privately, through her studio in Dahlonega. |
| Christine Stanton |
Christine Stanton attended the Chelmsford School of Art for Fashion and Design in England. She is a studio weaver specializing in Handwoven Wearables. Her work is seen in exhibits and art festivals throughout the Southeast. Christine has taught classes for the CHG in weaving, including Mixed Warps, Weave a Winter Vest-Before Winter Arrives-Handwoven Felted Vest, Weave a Holiday Gift Scarf, and Handwoven Felted Fabric. |
| Dell Stinnett |
Dell Stinnett was introduced to fiber art at the age of 6 when her grandmother taught her to do embroidery. Over the years since then she has learned knitting, tatting, sewing, quilting, spinning, rigid heddle weaving, tablet weaving and many other fiber crafts, and is self-taught in most of them. Dell attended the CHG Open House, won a discount on a weaving class as a door prize, took her first floor-loom class, and was hooked. She teaches beginning knitting and floor-loom weaving classes. |
| Dianne Totten |
Dianne Totten has a BS in Home Economics and has been sewing for thirty-plus years. Her interest in textiles led her to weaving. She has been a member of CHG for over 25 years. She has taught at John C. Campbell Folk School. Dianne's handwoven clothing has appeared in juried shows and been featured in Handwoven, Weaver's, and Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot magazines. She has won numerous awards for her work. |
| Ann Lynn Whiteside |
Ann Lynn began weaving as a child in the 3rd grade making potholders. That led, many years later, to a love and passion for weaving on inkle looms, crude peg looms, rigid heddle looms, backstrap looms, warp-weighted looms. and floor looms. She has been weaving for the past eight years in a concentrated study, taking many fiber workshops and weaving related classes. Ann Lynn volunteers at an inner city facility for mentally challenged students sharing her love for weaving. She has a passion for weaving and sharing that knowledge with others! |
| Mary Zurn |
Mary Zurn is an educational consultant who works with schools and teachers to integrate technology into classroom instruction. When Mary began weaving several years ago, she became a member of the Guild and began taking as many workshops and classes as she could fit into her schedule. She also enjoys teaching beginning weavers and passing on what she's learned. |
