The Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance, a non-profit, provides seminars, classes, and workshops in a wide variety of fiber art disciplines.
In July 2011, when we open our fiber arts center, we will also host exhibitions, provide low-cost studio space, and provide low-cost rental space for meetings, classes, workshops, and events. We are open to everyone with an interest in fiber and we aim to engage, educate and inspire!
Mission: We celebrate, support, promote and perpetuate all fiber art forms and connect the fiber arts community. We do this by addressing the following goals:
Connect the fiber arts community;
Promoteand support fiber artists, teachers, organizations, and businesses;
Support the display and appreciation of fiber arts and artists;
Hi! My name is Kerry and I absolutely love to create art and make handmade recycled paper. I have an art degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison, but have really been creating art my whole life. I first made handmade recycled paper when I was 10 or 11 years old, at Octoberfest up in LaCrosse, WI. I then began making it again in my late teens and refined my technique over the years.
I have learned a lot through trial and error, and created my own techniques over time to make my paper one of a kind, earth friendly, and lovely. It gives me endless joy that I can make something beautiful from papers and items that might normally be cast aside, thereby helping the environment and also providing a unique art supply for other artists and craftsmen. I have found that these recycled papers have many great uses, including card making, gift tags, soap wraps, book marks, book binding, and scrapbooking. Oh yeah, and they look great framed as art too!
If you are looking for a certain size, color or style, just contact me and let me know! I love working with potential clients on custom orders :)
Artist's Statement: At The Greene Fairy we strive for a high quality paper product that is decorative, eco-friendly, and of many purposes :)
I am a fiber artist working in 2D, 3D and installation format using free motion stitching as my primary method. In addition to my conceptual, non-functional works, I also make unique items for body and home for my Etsy shop and stores and gallery shops. I also teach at arts centers, run the after school art program at a private school in Atlanta and conduct workshops and arts events. I have been featured on the PBS artist special “IN CONTEXT”; featured in the books, “The Best of America Sculpture Artists and Artisans” Kennedy Publishing and “Quilt National 2009” Lark Books and exhibit locally, nationally and internationally. I hold MFA and BFA degrees in Fibers and a Bachelor of Education in Art.
Artist's Statement: At age four, while in the hospital for deafness, my mother made Barbie doll clothes for me to dress my Barbie and Ken in. One dress in particular, made of a fiery red satin, provoked my infatuation with the tactile qualities inherent to textiles and fiber, and my interest in working 3 dimensionally.
I am involved with continuous exploration and development of the ways which man-made materials can be formed into work that references nature or natural systems and how, when I magnify these human-made “systems”, they form a new reality. This attempt is in response to my dissatisfaction with the impact of human behavior on the natural world. I am seeking to create a unique world of my own design, made from that I shun and that I embrace.
In my 3 dimensional and installation works, I address this by looking at items usually ignored: a small stone kicked aside while walking, a bit of broken glass, a fossil, a shard of twisted metal, a shell, leftover plastic, a microscopic cell. I transform those simple, ordinary objects into the extraordinary in order to give them greater significance. Using the power of scale—from minuscule to gargantuan—I portray and bring to notice an important essence I see in each object.
The 2 dimensional, somewhat Neo-Surrealist fiber pieces I am creating interject personal storytelling into a broad visual commentary on that dysfunctional society. My wall works at first glance might be likened to that of a painting - an initial impression of color and form -but the viewer of my work is usually confused by a texture unlike that in painting and is then sucked in for a closer look. I want that element of hidden surprise to grab, so that they are drawn in to my story.
Feminists might postulate that my use of fabric and the intricacy of the stitching in the works harks back to the days of quilting bees, when women shared stories, solved the problems of the day and bonded tightly as they worked with tiny stitch. As society has become more complex and humans increasingly disconnected from each other and from nature, artists like myself end up holed up alone, a stranded worker bee…transforming what I can, a bit at a time.
I live and teach in Atlanta, Georgia. I have been married for 24 years, have two beautiful daughters and I will soon become a grandmother for the first time!
My artwork and business are very eclectic. Wet felting is my favorite medium but I also love to play with my embellisher and make fabric collages, fabric pieces to add to clothes and fiber jewelry. I would love to meet like minded fiber artists in my area for playdays with dye, felt or fabric.
Artist's Statement: Getting inspiration from dreams, I have been an artisan for 20 years. Incorporating elements of collage, rubber-stamping and found object art, my work is both abstract and representational.
I am a designer of art dolls, felted items, as well as a serious fiber artist.
Fabric art is my primary medium now. Besides pouches, pins and wall hangings, I combine the color and texture of fabric arts with my expertise in felting in order to create dynamic
scarves and shawls.
Grayson Studios is the dreamworld created by Deborah R. Grayson. An artist, author and scholar, Grayson has made art in one form or another for as long as she can remember. Deborah became involved in making one-of-a-kind art quilts and dolls in 1993 when her work evolved from simply painting on canvas to dyeing, painting, and printing on all types of fabric and paper. In her work, Deborah hand paints, dyes and prints both fabric yardage and paper. She uses Procion fiber-reactive dyes, acrylic paints and ink to produce exquisite handmade dolls, prints and painted and quilted images.
Deborah has taught quilt-making and doll-making for numerous organizations and community centers throughout the southeastern United States. She regularly participates in both juried and invitational shows.
Artist's Statement: I have long been interested in how individuals create, use and process visual images. A central focus of my work is about the spiritual and metaphysical links between human beings and their surroundings. What causes me to develop a particular image is never on thing but a confluence of activities and events. The images in my quilts and prints have evolved from a life time of looking, listening, touching and daydreaming. Because I am inspired by the natural beauty of the human figure, a great deal of my work features people. I also enjoy the design aesthetics of geometric patterning and shapes. I attempt to portray the the complexities of all of these elements and their influences by layering the historical, political and cultural experiences of everyday life in my work. My hope is that when you look at my work that you learn and feel something about life, love and spirit.
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Online store: Grayson Studios Blog: Grayson Studios Memberships:
Studio Art Quilt Associates
Professional Art Quilt Alliance -- South
Women's Caucus for Art/Women's Caucus for Art Georgia Languages spoken: English and limited Spanish
"There is Hope" by Deborah Grayson
Tags: Studio Art Quilts, Design, hand dyed textiles, printmaking, textile painting, handcrafted, art dolls, dollmaking, surface design, color, abstract, figurative art
Hi. I'm Diana Hughes, a dyer in Atlanta, Georgia. I mostly use a variety of shibori techniques. I'm entirely self-taught, although I owe a huge debt of gratitude to so many who have shared their knowledge and expertise and passion online. (Some of whom are here already!).
I mainly do garments and accessories, although recently I've been dyeing silk and slicing/splicing it into ribbon yarn. I have shops at both Etsy and 1000 Markets and use the income to fund my passion for learning more and experimenting with just about every dyeable surface I can find. There is so much to learn! So much to play with! So much to do! And I love every day of it.
Hand dyed shibori clothing and accessories - whether it's stitched, wrapped, bound, or clamped - it's not your typical tiedye.
