2020 Teachers
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Nancy Kennedy: Kennedy Method of Rug Weaving
"Weaving has been my passion and vocation since 1990. When I first learned to weave, I wondered why I hadn’t discovered it long before. In middle age, I finally knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. I guess that makes me a “late bloomer.” Now I’m in no hurry to “grow up,” as it might spoil the creativity. Rugs have been my primary focus from the beginning. Over the years, my style has evolved to the current contemporary designs you see here. I have been showing them at fine craft shows around the country since 1999. To make a very brief artist’s statement: I weave “art underfoot.” In addition to weaving professionally, I have taught weaving classes at The Ink People Center for the Arts weaving studio in Eureka, California, and also workshops at the Mendocino Art Center in Mendocino, California. In the fall of 1999 I spent a month-long artist in residency at the Mendocino Art Center. In August of 2007 I returned to Eureka, California, after living in Minnesota for four years. Fine Craft Shows I have participated in, in the past: Contemporary Crafts Market, Santa Monica, CA Fine Furnishings Shows, Milwaukee, WI and Providence, RI American Craft Council Shows, Baltimore, MD St. Paul, MN and San Francisco, CA One of a Kind Show and Sale, Chicago, IL Paradise City Shows, Northampton, MA Art Furnishings Shows, Santa Monica, CA and Pasaden, CA Crafts Women Shows, San Francisco, CA Gallery Exhibitions: The Living Room Gallery at Mikki Moves Real Estate, Eureka, CA Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA Hurricane Kate’s, Eureka, CA The Ink People Center for the Arts, Eureka, CA St. John’s University Art Gallery, St. Cloud, Minnesota Five Two Six Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota |
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Elaine Eastep: Beginning Tatting, Planned Pooling Knit Cowl
Elaine inherited her love of fiber art from her grandmothers and mother, and began sewing and knitting around age 8, and joined a Nebraska 4-H club. When her paternal grandmother died in 1981, she was saddened to learn that none of the grandchildren had taken the time to learn tatting from her. Elaine made it her mission to learn to tat and carry on the tradition. Elaine was previously a member of the Kansas City Fiber Guild, Lace Guild, and the International Organization of Lace, Inc.
Elaine's Fiber Arts Passions include, but are not limited to: sewing, quilting, tatting, crochet, knitting, and embroidery. What's so interesting to her is combining the various techniques within one project. The possibilities are endless!
Maggie Howe: Indigo Dyeing, Serendipity Dyeing, Botanical Inks, Fast as Fun Silk Dyeing
Maggie Howe has been creating unruly yarns and making dye messes for about 12 years. Her kitchen is usually full of boiling weeds and jars of what her partner calls "dye science". She loves to explore color, texture, and whimsy! Everything is play and nothing is too serious so come to her classes with an attitude of fun, we will have a good time!
Rhonda McClure: 3-D Needle Felted Sheep
Rhonda McClure has been teaching 2D and 3D needle felting for more than 10 years. Her realistic animal sculptures have been exhibited in Museums and retail outlets across the Midwest. Rhonda and
her husband produce quality fine wool of the type she prefers for her artwork.
Kay McCoy: Weaver-Controlled Rigid Heddle Techniques
Kay McCoy developed a passion for the fiber arts first when she learned macrame’ and wheat weaving as a 4-Her and that passion continued when she learned to spin her own yarn 23 years ago. Kay loves fiber – and loves finding new ways to feed her fiber enthusiasm. When she is not enjoying fiber arts, Kay is supporting her fiber habit in her career as a Farm Loan Manager for Farm Service Agency in Seneca, Kansas. Kay, along with her sister, Sally Brandon and their mom own the Shepherd’s Mill Retail Store in Phillipsburg, Kansas. Located with the Shepherd’s Mill Fiber Processing Mill, the Retail Store offers quality fiber arts equipment, specialty yarns and fiber arts classes.
Elaine inherited her love of fiber art from her grandmothers and mother, and began sewing and knitting around age 8, and joined a Nebraska 4-H club. When her paternal grandmother died in 1981, she was saddened to learn that none of the grandchildren had taken the time to learn tatting from her. Elaine made it her mission to learn to tat and carry on the tradition. Elaine was previously a member of the Kansas City Fiber Guild, Lace Guild, and the International Organization of Lace, Inc.
Elaine's Fiber Arts Passions include, but are not limited to: sewing, quilting, tatting, crochet, knitting, and embroidery. What's so interesting to her is combining the various techniques within one project. The possibilities are endless!
Maggie Howe: Indigo Dyeing, Serendipity Dyeing, Botanical Inks, Fast as Fun Silk Dyeing
Maggie Howe has been creating unruly yarns and making dye messes for about 12 years. Her kitchen is usually full of boiling weeds and jars of what her partner calls "dye science". She loves to explore color, texture, and whimsy! Everything is play and nothing is too serious so come to her classes with an attitude of fun, we will have a good time!
Rhonda McClure: 3-D Needle Felted Sheep
Rhonda McClure has been teaching 2D and 3D needle felting for more than 10 years. Her realistic animal sculptures have been exhibited in Museums and retail outlets across the Midwest. Rhonda and
her husband produce quality fine wool of the type she prefers for her artwork.
Kay McCoy: Weaver-Controlled Rigid Heddle Techniques
Kay McCoy developed a passion for the fiber arts first when she learned macrame’ and wheat weaving as a 4-Her and that passion continued when she learned to spin her own yarn 23 years ago. Kay loves fiber – and loves finding new ways to feed her fiber enthusiasm. When she is not enjoying fiber arts, Kay is supporting her fiber habit in her career as a Farm Loan Manager for Farm Service Agency in Seneca, Kansas. Kay, along with her sister, Sally Brandon and their mom own the Shepherd’s Mill Retail Store in Phillipsburg, Kansas. Located with the Shepherd’s Mill Fiber Processing Mill, the Retail Store offers quality fiber arts equipment, specialty yarns and fiber arts classes.