2019 Teachers
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Introducing our 2019 Headline Teacher, Nancy Kennedy!
"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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Joi Chupp: Dimensional Weaving
After purchasing a farm in SW Missouri and acquiring a small flock of sheep, Joi became hooked on Fiber. She currently has over 60 head of sheep, alpacas, llamas, goats , horses and cows. You might say she has taken to country living with a bang. Joi has tried just about every method of utilizing her Fiber herd. Her favorites are felting, weaving and knitting. She has taught these methods for several years and enjoys seeing her students create items from the heart.
Judy Crouch: Beginning Wheel Spinning
Judy has been working in the fiber arts for over 35 years. She loves spinning, weaving, felting and basically any other crafts that come around. Her favorite thing though is watching the excitement on students faces when they spin their first yarn or weave from the first time. She can't wait to meet the new students this year!
Elaine Eastep: Beginning Tatting
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
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!
Melissa Jones: Hippie Chick Warp Dyeing, Hippie Chick Skinny Scarf
Melissa Jones has been interested in fiber since she was a child with sewing and crocheting. The wonderful world of knitting, spinning and weaving was revealed to her about 10 years ago and she hasn’t stopped since. She co-teaches and hosts several workshops a year along with Jeffrey Reynolds.
Rhonda McClure: Choose Your Own Adventure in Needle Felting!
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: Tunisian Crochet Colorwork
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.
Holly McMillan: Beginning Rug Hooking
Holly McMillan has been hooking wool rugs for over 20 years and attends several classes each year in order to learn from teachers from the Midwest and beyond. Like many rughookers, Holly began hooking in the primitive style, but has moved into brighter color and narrower cuts, adding texture to her rugs through the use of fibers like sari silks, yarns, and rovings. Holly has won Best in Show multiple times at the Nebraska state fair, as well as Best of Textile Arts in 2017, with a fun steampunk orangutan called The Professor. She is a member of Midwest Rug Hookers (MRH), a local chapter of the Association of Traditional Hooking Artists. Several members of MRH will assist with this class. Our goal is to promote the art rug hooking, teach beginners, and hopefully inspire further generations to practice the craft. May you enjoy this class as much as Holly enjoys teaching it!
Darlene Megli: Beginning Rigid Heddle Weaving, Rigid Heddle Weaving with Pickup Sticks
Darlene lives in SW Missouri on a farm with a few sheep and an alpaca. She owns A Twist In Time with best friend Judy Crouch and they vend and teach in the Midwest.
Darlene has been involved in the fiber world about 30 years and she loves to share what she has learned with others.
Bex Oliger: Continuous Strand Weaving
Bex Oliger grew up in her mother’s (Carol Leigh Brack-Kaiser, author of Continuous Strand Weaving Magic and Nature Provides) weaving and dyeing studio. She has been weaving, spinning, natural dyeing and knitting for over 35 years. Bex is currently a knitwear designer and owner of Hillcreek yarn Shoppe in Columbia, MO. She and her husband travel to Fiber Festivals across the country to vend and teach knitting and weaving.
After purchasing a farm in SW Missouri and acquiring a small flock of sheep, Joi became hooked on Fiber. She currently has over 60 head of sheep, alpacas, llamas, goats , horses and cows. You might say she has taken to country living with a bang. Joi has tried just about every method of utilizing her Fiber herd. Her favorites are felting, weaving and knitting. She has taught these methods for several years and enjoys seeing her students create items from the heart.
Judy Crouch: Beginning Wheel Spinning
Judy has been working in the fiber arts for over 35 years. She loves spinning, weaving, felting and basically any other crafts that come around. Her favorite thing though is watching the excitement on students faces when they spin their first yarn or weave from the first time. She can't wait to meet the new students this year!
Elaine Eastep: Beginning Tatting
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
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!
Melissa Jones: Hippie Chick Warp Dyeing, Hippie Chick Skinny Scarf
Melissa Jones has been interested in fiber since she was a child with sewing and crocheting. The wonderful world of knitting, spinning and weaving was revealed to her about 10 years ago and she hasn’t stopped since. She co-teaches and hosts several workshops a year along with Jeffrey Reynolds.
Rhonda McClure: Choose Your Own Adventure in Needle Felting!
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: Tunisian Crochet Colorwork
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.
Holly McMillan: Beginning Rug Hooking
Holly McMillan has been hooking wool rugs for over 20 years and attends several classes each year in order to learn from teachers from the Midwest and beyond. Like many rughookers, Holly began hooking in the primitive style, but has moved into brighter color and narrower cuts, adding texture to her rugs through the use of fibers like sari silks, yarns, and rovings. Holly has won Best in Show multiple times at the Nebraska state fair, as well as Best of Textile Arts in 2017, with a fun steampunk orangutan called The Professor. She is a member of Midwest Rug Hookers (MRH), a local chapter of the Association of Traditional Hooking Artists. Several members of MRH will assist with this class. Our goal is to promote the art rug hooking, teach beginners, and hopefully inspire further generations to practice the craft. May you enjoy this class as much as Holly enjoys teaching it!
Darlene Megli: Beginning Rigid Heddle Weaving, Rigid Heddle Weaving with Pickup Sticks
Darlene lives in SW Missouri on a farm with a few sheep and an alpaca. She owns A Twist In Time with best friend Judy Crouch and they vend and teach in the Midwest.
Darlene has been involved in the fiber world about 30 years and she loves to share what she has learned with others.
Bex Oliger: Continuous Strand Weaving
Bex Oliger grew up in her mother’s (Carol Leigh Brack-Kaiser, author of Continuous Strand Weaving Magic and Nature Provides) weaving and dyeing studio. She has been weaving, spinning, natural dyeing and knitting for over 35 years. Bex is currently a knitwear designer and owner of Hillcreek yarn Shoppe in Columbia, MO. She and her husband travel to Fiber Festivals across the country to vend and teach knitting and weaving.