Fiber Arts
Needing a creative outlet, I asked my sister to show me how to make a basket. We spent the day together weaving, and I made a rather ugly basket. But I knew I had found a passion. I came home with an ugly basket, a basket kit with a pattern, and a phone number to order books and materials.
Artha Labath — Lake Ozark, MO
Each basket is created using the Cherokee style
of weaving, making each basket useful and decorative.
Bonnie Schreckengast — Wright City, MO
Marcia Whitt creates baskets using more natural
looking materials including items such as local vines, plants and found
antlers.
Marcia Whitt — Bethany, MO
The construction of my vessels begins as a gift from the forest. The antler’s natural curve, coloration, and texture are taken into consideration and ignite the potential for a creative vessel to emerge.
Jill Choate — Van Buren, MO
Gail's creations are purely for the soul. Things that can make you laugh or smile. They are created with humor and made with love, in the hope that they are cherished by those who purchase them.
Gail S. Kelley — St. Louis, MO
Challenges of imagination and experience in technique
have served to focus my effort and attention on symbolic detail. Within
my art I give voice to the images that move my imagination. Colors,
shapes, textures and the combination of forms become my playmates.
Lois Jacobs — Eureka, MO
In coloring outside the lines I seek to create a metamorphosis using what already exists or has been discarded to re-create something new to behold.
Linda Flake — Kansas City, MO
Katherine finds satisfaction in the way tiny, repeated
motifs can mirror patterns in nature, such as fish scales and feathers,
or large flocks of birds. She is also inspired by mosaics, Mediterranean
colors and by yarn itself.
Katherine Ladendorf — Ballwin, MO
I create baskets using the lost art of Shaker basketry. The experience of weaving with hand-pounded ash is profound - very similar to sewing with the very finest satin.
Mary Makuta — Ballwin, MO
I make woven hanging chairs as well as hammocks. Now I'm beginning to experiment with variations of color patterns in my work.
Mary Hoelterhoff — Ava,
MO
I began hooking rugs in 1995. Two of my rugs have been published in a national putlication, The Rug Hooking Magazine.
Edwina Prinster — Auxvasse,
MO
Susan Leslie Lumsden is a rebel quilter. I
follow my own path, break rules where they get in my way, and have way
more fun than most would allow! I am respectful enough of tradition
to use its strengths but not enough to feel encumbered by it.
Susan Leslie Lumsden — Thayer, MO
Lisa's natural fiber functional spun and woven pieces
are fine accents for any home.
Lisa Sell — Elkland, MO
After learning the basics and spending years exploring texture, color, and forms, I have settled on antler baskets as my preferred art form and specialty. Traditional baskets with equal value of function and feng shui provide me with additional interest.
Celeste Prussia — Ava, MO
Penelope Trudeau‘s work qualifies as quilting,
although it is much different from what most people know as traditional
American patchwork or appliqué. She creates fine contemporary
fiber art.
Penelope Trudeau — Lebanon, MO
Ruth's consistent goal is technical excellence in felting, coupled with interesting color and texture combinations. Indeed, her inspiration comes from the interactions of the colors and textures with which she surrounds herself.
Ruth E. W. Walker — Columbia, MO
My passion is the reproduction of the hand woven
coverlet in which I take great pride producing from our ancestors' patterns.
Jeffery D. Reynolds — Marshall, MO
Rita really wanted to be a potter, ordered a potters
wheel, which never came and became a weaver, spinner and whatever else
went with being a Fiber Art person and never regretted it.
Rita Williams — Lampe, MO
"I've never seen anything like this" is
the common reaction to the exquisite sculptural basketry of Peggy Wyman.
Peggy Wyman — Norwood, MO
I work continuously on my fiber art perfecting it
through constant practice, fiber retreats and conference. I learned
through research Flax was used during biblical times for burial wraps
this encouraged my studies even more.
Linda Beckley — St. Clair, MO
