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claire graham-smith
burlington, VT
· Fiber
Claire has been a lifelong Maker. She studied studio art in Ontario, Canada and has a degree in art photography and painting. She came to quilt making when her children were young, making her own clothes while teaching herself to sew on a treadle machine. Early on she began quilt demonstrating at the Shelburne Museum and developed a fondness for antique quilts. Through teaching her kids to sew and quilt, Claire developed classes for children in the homeschool community and taught adult workshops. She branched out to art quilting, incorporating unusual fabrics, clothing and many embellishments. As the modern quilt movement took hold, she found connection to a simpler aesthetic. It aligned with her intuitive approach to art making. She has many pieces which include both handwork and machines. She has served on the board of Champlain Valley Quilters Guild for the last four years.
Memberships include:
Vermont Modern Quilt Guild
Studio Art Quilters Associates Surface Design Associates
Artist in Residence co-op gallery St Albans
Claire always has hand work projects on the go. Travel or movie watching, she lives by the ‘no idle hands’ philosophy.
Claire has made her home in Burlington for thirty years.
Susan Snider
Waitsfield, VT
· Fiber
Since a young girl Susan has always been involved in fiber arts. Susan learned how to weave in Sweden during her year as a Rotary exchange student and her lifelong learning in weaving, spinning and dyeing never abated. Susan studied weaving in Denmark and was active in the Handweavers' Guild of Connecticut for over 20 years. She is a member of the Vermont Weavers' Guild, American Tapestry Alliance, Green Mountain Knitting Guild and Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild.
In 2012 when Vermont became her permanent home, Susan founded Mad River Fiber Mill in Waitsfield, where she continued to teach weaving, spinning and dyeing. Now retired from mill work, Susan is looking forward to sharing her expertise, enthusiasm and passion for the fiber arts.
mollie davis
monkton, vermont
· Fiber
Mollie started knitting in the 5th grade and has never looked back. In college, Mollie began working at Nido (a local yarn shop) where she taught classes for young students and helped people learn about the many different fibers used in needle work. After Nido, Mollie began pattern and technical editing for Stephen West and Andrea Mowery which she continues today. In 2020, Mollie started White Dog Farm, a small fiber farm in Monkton, VT where she raises heritage sheep for their wool to create yarn and custom knitwear garments. You can find her @whitedogfarmvt on Instagram or www.whitedogfarmvt.com
Pamela is a craft-based artist working primarily in clay and handwoven fibers. She maintains a studio in Barre City and exhibits regularly throughout Vermont and New England.
Jodie is a felt artist focusing on colorful, wearable art and the 3d form. She began her felting journey in 2014 when she saw a needle felting demonstration. Intrigued and wanting to learn more, she took a wet felting continuing education class at Rhode Island School of Design and was hooked. Jodie primarily wet and nuno felts with resists to create hats, purses, and vessels. Her creations are often eclectic in nature. She loves to play with texture and color.
Madeleine Hatoum
South Burlington, VT
· Fiber
Madeleine Hatoum is an artist and designer based in the Burlington area. She began her crochet journey at the start of the pandemic after years of experimenting in different mediums such as pen-and in drawing. With a day job as a digital designer Madeleine fell in love with the physical and slow process of making garments with crochet. Recently having moved from Brooklyn back home to Burlington, Madeleine is excited to join the fiber community and learn more about new techniques, local fibers and to share her knowledge.
Viveka Fox
Vergennes, VT
· Fiber
As a kid, I gravitated toward sports and outdoor adventure, and successfully resisted my mother's efforts to teach me to knit. When covid arrived, I found myself with extra time on my hands, and the urge, in middle age, to learn something new. I crowdsourced my new hobby on Facebook, and the winner was my old friend Lausanne Allen, who said "get over here immediately and I'll give you everything you need to try Baltic pick-up weaving". I loved it immediately, and soon had my husband building me a rigid heddle loom. That led to the need to join pieces of woven fabric together, and again, Lausanne had the answer: crochet. She gave me a quick lesson on basic crochet, and soon after sent me a link to photos of Wayuu mochilas with the note "aren't these beautiful?". Right again! With the help of several books and YouTube videos, I was soon crocheting as much as weaving. Making up for lost time, I guess!
Susan Powers
Shelburne, VT
· Fiber
Sue is a long time weaver who especially enjoys exploring the interaction of color and structure in handwoven textiles. She came to weaving through spinning and natural dyeing, and learned to weave from Betty Oldenburg in western New Jersey. Initially expanding her learning through weaving guild workshops, Sue later received the Handweavers Guild of America's Certificate of Excellence Level I in technical skills in 2014. She and her husband have lived in a variety of places in the Northeast, but are now settled in Shelburne with their new puppy, Rowan. In addition to weaving, Sue enjoys gardening and playing pickleball.
Arianna Soloway
Burlington, VT
· Fiber
Arianna is a knitter, knitwear designer, and manager of Must Love Yarn in Shelburne VT. She's been knitting for nearly 25 years and loves teaching knitters of all ages and skill levels.
Heather Layn
Bristol, VT
· Fiber
I was born and raised on a farm in Vermont. After graduation I left to explore the world in The United States Marine Corp.
When I returned, I was drawn back to farm life. I joined my husband on his family's dairy farm where I added my own special touches (animals) to make it the amazing place it is today.
I began playing with fiber several years ago, first by joining the Twist O' Wool group. There, I got to learn many different crafts related to fiber. But I was always drawn back to felting!
I began as a self-taught artist. Once I found other fiber friends, I took classes with them to learn more skills. There is always something new to learn, so I keep growing as a fiber artist all the time!
Jen berger works as an interdisciplinary, community and socially engaged artist and educator. Using street, stage and guerilla theater, visual arts, painting, printmaking, puppetry, video for education and dialogue she seeks to raise awareness and intervene in social issues that affect us all.
Jen is also works as a teaching artist, working with students in, and out, of the public schools, who are in early childhood through adult aged students.
Diane Burgess
Hinesburg, VT
· Fiber
Diane Burgess has been hooking rugs since 1998; teaching beginner and intermediate classes as well as wool dyeing workshops since 1998 throughout Vermont and for the Access to CVU High School evening program as well as for the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild 2004 to 2016 at the” Hooked in The Mountains Rug Show” to be held at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT in November 2022. Member of the Green Rug Hooking Guild since 1998.