Ecoprint on Leather with Theresa Brown

Theresa Brown

M. Theresa Brown is a professional artist whose long art career embraces many areas of the arts. She studied Commercial Art and Printmaking at East Carolina University, and subsequent years of printmaking and graphic design work led her to explore the fiber arts. Using many similar skills and accumulated knowledge, she evolved as a hand painter, needle felter, and ecoprinter on natural fibers. She uses natural dyes and low impact synthetic dyes and merges them into unique, beautiful designs on silk, wool, paper, and leather. She turns her transformed work into artisanal clothing, accessories, and art. Her articles and designs in the fiber arts have appeared in international publications such as "No Serial Number" and "Belle Armoire".

She has contributed articles and blogs for online publications and created many “How to” DVDs and eBooks in the visual arts in conjunction with the national art chain, Jerrysartarama.com. Her eBooks “Art Marketing Success Secrets” and “Single Mom’s Guide to Making Money as an Artist” were published as audio books, and she is often a guest speaker on art marketing for art organizations. She has a line of instructional PDF’s on ecoprinting techniques and is the first instructor to teach Ecoprinting on Leather in the US. She teaches in her studio and online and has been an instructor at many events and fiber art shows across the country including John C. Campbell Folk School, Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, Southeastern Animal Fiber Fest, Carolina Fiber Fest, Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival, Michigan Fiber Fest, Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival, Shenandoah Valley Fiber Fest, Silk Painters International, Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance, Convergence at Handweavers Guild, Waterford Craft School, Silk Painters International, and many private venues. She and her artist husband, Stephen Filarsky, reside in rural NC with their alpacas, chickens, and family dogs!