Learn from Great Arts Teachers

Elizabeth Whitton is a mompreneur who turned her love of wool into a thriving family-run needle felting business called Felted Sky. A self-taught needle felter, she has a knack for designing beautiful small projects that she has turned into a line of needle felting kits suitable for beginners.

Geri creates mixed media art from her studio in Tennessee, teaches internationally, and her winning art is in museum collections. She was awarded an Appalachian Craft and Culture Fellowship at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and has taught at John Campbell Folk School for 19 years.

Youngmin Lee is a textile artist who uses bojagi tradition and techniques to create her work. Her interest in textiles led her to study Clothing and Textile in college and received an MFA in Fashion Design in South Korea. She has researched bojagi making and techniques and endeavors to apply her findings to both traditional and contemporary art.

Beth Truesdale has been a fiber arts enthusiast for over 50 years! An active spinner and weaver since the mid 1980’s, Beth has been teaching others for nearly as long as she has been involved in fiber arts. With many successful new weavers to her credit, she enjoys sharing these skills with others as much as doing them herself.

Steven Inglima was hooked the first time a silver halide print magically came to life in the developer. From his first Brownie 127 film camera, the quest began to capture the things that mattered to him. This lead to 37 years in the designing, manufacturing, and marketing component of the photographic industry.

Sarah Campbell is the owner and operator of New Roots Farm in West River, Maryland, and a member of the Maryland Lamb Coop. She converted her family's row crop land to pasture and established a grazing operation in 2014. Sarah has spent over a decade working on farm and agricultural issues in Washington, DC while running her farm operation.

Hannah Smith is a fiber artist, living historian, and archaeologist (but not necessarily in that order). She has been knitting and spinning for over a decade, after learning to spin at the local yarn shop in her college town in Pennsylvania.

Rhys Lovell is a theatre artist whose work has been seen throughout Central Illinois for the past 35 years. As an actor, he has appeared in dozens of productions at Heartland Theatre Company, Prairie Fire Theatre, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and the Evergreen Cemetery Walk, which he directed for six years.