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. -
Sue Jensen
Sue is a fiber lover. She sees things through the lens of fiber and fabric. She has been spinning for 25 years and weaving for 20 years. She now combines knitting, weaving, embroidery, watercolor and oil painting in different forms to tell a small story, through Textile Collage. Sue creates wall hangings, scarves, shawls, fabric for sewing and home goods, alongside her textile collages.
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Marcy Johnson
www.whidbeyworkingartists.com/marcy-johnson.html
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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Sarah Kaltsounis
https://www.instagram.com/sarahkaltsounisart
Sarah has studied indigenous Northwest Coast woolen weaving techniques for the past several years with Tlingit weavers Lily Hope and Shaadootlaa Iyall. She weaves regalia free of charge for Alaska Native dance groups.
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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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Liz Moncrief
I'm an avid weaver of wearables, rugs, and home goods, and I repair and rehab looms of all kinds on the side. I also offer beginning & advanced weaving workshops, fiber dyeing, and computer weave drafting (in person or virtually). My small studio is always open to visitors by appointment.
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Marilyn Romatka
Marilyn Romatka is an instructor of folk arts and textile techniques. She likes to say that she has the best job in the world; she travels to various countries gathering folk art techniques, then returns to the US to teach enthusiastic students! She is the author of Creative Crafts of the World: 15 lesson plans to teach Folk Art to kids