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Sarita Westrup is a Mexican-American craft based artist who lives and works in between TX and North Carolina. Westrup was raised in the Rio Grande Valley of the south Texas borderlands and earned an MFA in Fiber Arts from the University of North Texas in 2016.

Cassie Dickson is a heritage member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, specializing in spinning, natural dyeing, and the traditional arts of coverlet and linen weaving. With a passion for preserving historical craftsmanship, Cassie grows flax and processes the fiber into linen, and she raises silkworms and transforms their cocoons into beautiful silk fabric.

Alyssa Velazquez is an assistant curator at Carnegie Museum of Art. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in filling Station, S/He Speaks 2: Voices of Women, Trans & Nonbinary Folx, Burnaway, and AutoStraddle. Residences include Storyknife and as a Freshworks Artist at Kelly Strayhorn Theater.

TJ King—a.k.a., the Peahen—is a spinner, writer and teacher with nearly 20 years’ experience in helping others find joy in fiber arts. While her passion is supported spinning, she also weaves, knits, felts and crochets. She’s looking forward to sharing her knowledge at the Cedar Springs Fiber Arts Center in the coming years.

Siobhan Boothe is a Natural Yarn Dyer from Southwestern Virginia. She lives on her family farm with her two daughters, husband, beef cows, beloved chickens, dog and cats. She's been dying yarn since 2015 and crocheting for over 15 years. She loves bringing her love of crochet and Tunisian Crochet to more stitchers!

Henry has been building fiber art equipment for over 50 years and enjoys sharing his knowledge of both equipment and fiber. The family business he started in 1971 has introduced many innovations to the fiber arts community and their equipment is known for being not only thoughtfully engineered but visually pleasing and durable as well.

Driven by curiosity and colour, Kim is a dedicated fibre artist and educator who brings a rich blend of science, skill, and creativity to her teaching. Her approach is to first help students examine and understand their unique “signature” spinning style.

Lisa Doherty is a fiber artist in Wake Forest, NC, with a particular interest in freeform crochet and knitting. When she’s not playing with fiber, she’s playing violin or viola for weddings, concerts, and musical theater. Visit her Freeform Yarny Things website at ldoherty.substack.com to see her work and sign up for her free newsletter.

Riley Kleve is a textile artist and educator creating interactive and collaborative work in community-led settings. Their work in weaving, handspinning, and embroidery draws from history to create a queerer vision for the future of textiles.

Rachel Snack is a weaver, educator, and textile artist based in Philadelphia. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fiber & Material Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her Master of Science in Textile Design from Philadelphia University.