Learn from Great Arts Teachers

Sarah Boink is a New York–based fiber artist and educator whose work focuses on tapestry weaving with hand-spun, sustainable fibers. She is the founder of Sizz Handmade, where she creates contemporary tapestry work and weaving education rooted in material awareness, place, and environmental responsibility.

Deborah Jarchow is a full-time weaver, author, designer, and artist who has exhibited at galleries and museums across the country winning numerous awards. She travels from her Arizona home sharing weaving enthusiasm and expertise. As a nationally recognized teacher, Deborah is known as a generous educator who makes weaving accessible and exciting to students of all levels.

I love to teach others the joy of working with their hands. I specialize in Macrame and Macra-weaving. I make learning the basics fun and as simple as possible. If you can tie your shoes, then you can macrame. Then I encourage each student to explore as he/she creates finished projects suitable for showing off to friends and family.

Hello! I'm Kevin and it's nice to meet you. Before I dive into myself, my one goal in teaching is to give you a happy and healthy relationship with music. That's it! If you walk away from our lessons, be it one or for years, I want you to always have a relationship with music that makes you smile. When you go see a movie, you appreciate the score.

Amy Ross Manko travels the country (and now the world) teaching, researching and writing about her favorite topic - Rare Breed Sheep! You may know her from her feature series in PLY Magazine too – “Sheep on the Edge” or her breed profiles in the U.K’s KnitNow magazine.

As a child, I was blessed with parents and brothers who constantly challenged me to try new things, to experiment, to explore, to analyze, to create. As an adult, I became a teacher and have taught journalism, photography, and drama. I then became a counselor, working with at risk and discipline problem students in alternative school settings.

Rebecca Miller is a writer, editor, shepherdess and dog wrangler. She runs Blue Heron Farms, a commercial sheep flock of about 250 ewes, in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Ohio. Livestock guardian dogs have been a part of the family farm for more than 15 years, but she began working with them specifically in 2016. She now has a growing pack, mostly of Turkish origin.

Music has been a constant thread throughout my life. Growing up in a musical family, I was immersed in sound, rhythm, and creativity from an early age. Surrounded by musicians, I developed a deep appreciation for performance and composition that shaped my identity as an artist.

Fazia Rizvi is an actor and web developer with more than thirty years experience in information technology in higher education. Her multicultural family background (Finland, India, Pakistan) and B.A. in anthropology is what inspires her weaving, spinning and natural dyeing craft as well as an obsession with old or vanishing tools and techniques.

Jo Troll, an aroace trans art-maker and creative coach, has studied Irish dance with Kieran Jordan since they were 11 years old. They are experienced in a variety of percussive dance techniques including sean-nos, Irish step, Appalachian clogging, body percussion, and rapper sword dance, and hold a graduate diploma in dance studies from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Dance.