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WHAT I DO Vocal Coaching • Artist Development • Public Speaking • Stage Presence • Audition Prep (Performing Arts Colleges, Broadway, Professional Theater) • TEDx Prep • Trial Attorney Coaching WHO I AM I'm not a coach who teaches from a textbook.

Early fascination with fabric and fashion came from my seamstress mother. You might say fiber art is bound into my DNA. My felting journey began with a study of skin. Skin as a protective covering, and as identifier, and how it can record history. A study of animal skin, and human skin; leading to hybrids. All the while, intrigued with the way wearable art transforms its wearer.

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.

Addie Hirschten is a contemporary impressionist painter, art teacher, author of several books and host of the Studio Alchemy Podcast. When working as an art instructor, Hirschten enjoys helping students to develop their own style and artistic voice.

Lesley Patterson-Marx is a lifelong visual artist, and a native of Louisville, Ky. who has lived in Nashville, Tn. since 2001. She has exhibited her artist’s books, prints, mixed-media, and textile works in galleries, art centers, colleges and universities across the United States, Great Britain and The Netherlands.

I am an Economics (Honours) graduate from the University of Delhi, where I graduated in May 2023. I later completed my Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) in 2025 from Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University (CRSU), Jind. Alongside my formal education, I have completed a Diploma in Education, undertaken two teaching internships in offline schools, and have been working as a private tutor for…

Sarah Ward is an Essex (UK)-based weaver, teacher, and environmental activist. The main focus of Sarah's work is to share knowledge through craft. She uses her woven work to advocate weaving as an art form in its own right, but also to raise awareness about waste, and the textile industry’s impact on our planet and its inhabitants.

My name is Santhoshi, I am a wife, mom and a very passionate cook! I hosted my very first cooking class in March 2015. Two lovely ladies signed up for my first class, we talked, laughed, and cooked. All the dishes turned out great and they loved the food! At that moment I discovered my Life's Purpose, which is teaching people to cook.

I’m Yacine Haboubi, a Tunisian musician and dancer with a lifelong connection to music. My journey began as a child, moving to the sounds of Michael Jackson and James Brown, which taught me how to deeply absorb rhythm, melody, and emotion.

Julie has been raising fiber animals since her teens, first on her family farm and now at her own ranch. Building on her love for teaching and design, her college studies focused on secondary education and costume design. After school , raising fiber animals naturally led to spinning and weaving and then into instructing across the country.