Learn from Great Arts Teachers

Joan has been teaching art for over 30 years, first at the high school level, and then at Riverrun Center for the Arts. She has offered felt making workshops for 16 years locally, regionally and internationally. “My fiber art workshops utilize a technique I call “pictorial felt-making”, in which the fleece is layered and “painted” to create 2-dimensional art objects,” Joan says.

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!

When Julie began felting in 2013 she never dreamed it would still be her passion more than 10 years later. Fiber had brought joy and purpose to her life and as her knowledge and skills grew, so did her desire share it with others. In 2021 she taught her first workshop at a Fiber Festival which she loved so much that in 2022 she became a Certified Felting Instructor through the…

When Ann Weaver is not traveling to teach or exploring thrift stores and estate sales, you will find her in West Baltimore, where she works as a freelance editor and writer and runs Plied Yarns. Knitting, mending, dyeing, sewing, and piecing—she uses all her skills to inspire her students in her laid-back, individualized workshops.

I’m a certified ESL teacher with several years of experience teaching both youth and adults from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. I began my teaching journey in 2020 through platforms like 51Talk and SPTR, where I developed a strong foundation in interactive, student-centered instruction.

Judith MacKenzie is the ultimate textile artist and teacher. She has an in-depth understanding of every aspect of spinning, weaving, knitting, and dyeing. Her teaching career spans the globe from such fascinating places as above the Arctic Circle all the way to Turkey. Judith is the author of Teach Yourself Visually: Handspinning and The International Spinner.

Cecelia Campochiaro appeared on the knitting scene in 2015 with her debut book, Sequence Knitting. Knitting was a casual pastime until she had an ah-ha moment in 2010 and realized that interesting textured fabrics could be created by the simple repetition of a sequence of stitches. Sequence Knitting is about texture, and her second book, Making Marls, is about color.

Julie Wilson and her family own a farm in Fines Creek, NC. In 1990, two sheep came to the Wilson family. Since then, Jehovah Raah Farm, has grown to raise Shetland sheep, Alpacas, Llamas, Angora Goats, Rabbits, and Scottish Highland Cattle. They even have a cottage, called ‘The Shepherd’s Croft, available for folks to experience ‘real’ farm life.

Deborah Robertson has no doubt that she stems from a lengthy line of spinners, weavers, seamstresses, embroiderers, and embellishers all the way back to prehistory. The daughter of a YWCA Camp Director, she was most often found in the Arts and Crafts cabin.

Jim Morgenthaler bought his first Nikon when stationed in Korea in the Air Force. Exploring Korea and Japan with that camera sparked the interest in photography that continues to this day. Jim has been teaching photography in Athens for 45 years and has been involved with digital photography for the last 30 years.