Jeana Eve Klein

Jeana Eve Klein’s studio practice explores the broad theme of value: how society in general assigns value (or worthlessness) to objects, and how the art world, specifically, assigns value to works of art, craft and design. These ideas are made tangible through large mixed media quilts and tiny obsessive embroideries. In her latest project—begun after … Continue reading Jeana Eve Klein →

Amy Putansu

Amy has been making cloth since she began her textile education at Rhode Island School of Design in 1991. This pursuit has been mainly in the form of hand weaving on Macomber looms. However she has also designed cloth for jacquard that was woven at the Oriole Mill, designed and woven interiors and garment yardage … Continue reading Amy Putansu →

ROBIN L. HALLER

Robin Haller is an artist who specializes in digital design and weaving. She is an Associate Professor in the Textile Design Program at East Carolina University, School of Art and Design, in Greenville, NC, where she teaches weaving and feltmaking. Robin’s weavings have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. She has received multiple grants to … Continue reading ROBIN L. HALLER →

Gabrielle Duggan

Building from an education in Fine Arts and Fashion (SUNY Buffalo, FIT), and Fibers and Surface Design (NCSU, Master of Art and Design), Duggan's work has been supported by the NC Arts Council (RAPG), Art on the Atlanta Beltline (GA), Artspace PopUp (NC), and exhibitions at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Flanders, and Lump … Continue reading Gabrielle Duggan →

Susan Fecho

Professor Susan Fecho is Dean of the School of Visual, Performing, and Communication Arts at Barton College. Her lifelong devotion to art includes over 30 years of teaching and working with art students in the United States and abroad. Fecho is a multi-media printmaker/surface designer with an earned M.F.A. from East Carolina University. In addition, … Continue reading Susan Fecho →

Miyuki Akai Cook

Miyuki Akai Cook was born and raised in Japan. She has always enjoyed creativities since she can remember, such as drawing, painting, and paper cutting, then her mother introduced sewing, knitting, crocheting. It was very natural for Miyuki to pursue art as her career. She attended Seian Woman’s college in Kyoto for a year to … Continue reading Miyuki Akai Cook →

Aaron McIntosh

Aaron McIntosh is a cross-disciplinary artist whose work mines the intersections of material culture, family tradition, sexual desire and identity politics in a range of works including quilts, sculpture, collage, photography and writing. His exhibition record includes numerous solo and group exhibitions, most recently The Embedded Message: Quilting in Contemporary Art at Richmond’s Visual Arts Center. He … Continue reading Aaron McIntosh →

R. Mertens

R. Mertens is an amateur historian, internet theorist, and film fanatic. His interests connect spiritualism, occult, conspiracies and scientific visual language. He also moonlights as an artist, curator and educator living in Virginia. His work revolves around the intersections between technology, religion, science and myth. These pieces combine new media with traditional fibers craft and … Continue reading R. Mertens →