2010 Summer Symposium

MEET THE FACULTY!

David was born in Peterborough, NH, in 1963. As a Navy brat, he had the opportunity to live in many parts of the US, attending high school and college in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. He currently makes his home in Steamboat Springs, CO, where he began his journey into the quilting world in 1999. Since then he has been the recipient of the Fairfield Master Award for Contemporary Quilt Artistry from the International Quilt Association (2006), the Brother Machine Workmanship Award from the American Quilters Society (2008) and has twice received Best of Show honors at the Spring International Quilt Festival in Chicago (2007, 2008). In the summer of 2008, David held a solo exhibit of his work at Les Jardins de Magali in Provence. David's quilts, crafted by hand, meticulously quilted and achieve a realistic effect though his fabric choices. Thread "painting" is the only embellishment added to his work. His threads of choice are variegated cottons by Sulky Blendables and his preferred batting is Warm & Natural.

Nancy Prince, an award winning quilt artist from Orlando, FL, specializes in thread painting. She has created a thread painting technique that is fun, easy and a new way for quilters to broaden their quilting experience. Nancy is the author of Simple Thread Painting published by the American Quilter's Society, has taped several episodes for Simply Quilts and Creative Living on PBS, has appeared in national magazines and won numerous quilting awards. She has received Honorable Mention at the International Quilt Festival in Houston and a First Place Pictorial winner at American Quilter's Society Quilt Show in Paducah and Best of Show at the NQA Quilt Show. Her quilts have won other Best of Show, Viewer's Choice, Most Creative Use of Thread, Artistic Merit, Best Machine Workmanship, Outstanding Innovative Quilt and Judge's Recognition at recent shows and first place at Bernina University. Nancy is totally addicted to thread painting and her enthusiasm in workshops can be contagious!!! Students comment on her commitment to one-on-one attention and her upbeat attitude. She travels the country teaching and lecturing to anyone who will listen in order to share the excitement and creativity thread painting brings to her quilting world. She excels in taking the mystic out of thread painting, making it easy for anyone to master.

Daphne is an enthusiastic and experienced quilting instructor, pattern designer and author from North Saanich, B.C. She has co-authored four quilting books, designed over 100 published patterns and regularly writes articles for quilting magazines. She teaches online at QuiltUniversity.com and travels throughout Canada and the US presenting innovative and entertaining workshops. She has presented lectures and workshops at the AQS shows, IQA Houston, Minnesota Quilter's Conference, Canadian Quilters' Association, Gulf States Quilting Association, on Quilting Cruises to Alaska, Mexico and Hawaii, and for numerous guilds, shops and retreats. She has appeared on The Quilt Show with Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson. Daphne considers herself a "student" of fiber arts and works at developing her own skills by attending workshops and participating in associations that further the art of quilting.

As a fabric artist, Susan has embarked on a life transforming journey into the world of color, design and pattern. Art and quilting has become her method of self expression and the focus of both her energies and methods of communication. Susan travels internationally to teach and lecture, has written four quilting books, many magazine articles and is the co-owner of Patchworks Studio, a popular pattern and design business. Susan's quilts have been shown across North America and her work is known for its use of traditional methods with contemporary design and materials. She has studied Design, Patchwork and Embroidery with the prestigious City & Guilds Institute of London, England and has studied with  internationally acclaimed teachers/quilt makers Nancy Crow, Jan Meyers Newbury, Elin Noble, Gail Harker and Ruth Issett. She loves sharing her knowledge and experience in the classroom.Susan's students have commented on the thoroughness of her lessons and the careful attention given to each student. She encourages quilters, both newcomers and the more experienced, to enjoy the process, to gather as much knowledge as possible and to challenge themselves with new techniques and processes. Susan is an active member of the fiber arts community in British Columbia and is a member of national and international fiber and surface design associations.

Cindy has been a quilter for over 35 years with the first 25 as a hand quilter and the past 12 as a machine quilter. Passing on her love of quilting and design through teaching is a dream come true. Her book, Wholecloth Linen Quilts was recently published by AQS and features her work on antique linens. In 2008 she was the Featured Artist at Road to California and displayed her antique linen quilts. Her love of design has led to unique opportunities to design stencils and she has had several designs featured in industry publications. Having taught machine quilting and design for the past 10 years, she is honored to have taught at Sisters, Quilt Camp in the Pines, Empty Spools, Houston and Road to California. She and her husband, Kent, live in Chico, CA where he patiently supports her quilting passion.

Irena Bluhm was born and raised in Poland. She moved to Germany in 1981 and then to California in 1991. Irena's extensive experience includes 18 years of garment making and design; and another 12 years of creating art, using various mediums. When she discovered the wonderful world of quilting and purchased her own Gammill Optimum Plus in 2004, she became fascinated by the new possibilities it presented. She was brimming with ideas for quilt designs to be used on quilts created for competitions and exhibits nationwide. Her enthusiasm is very contagious, and she loves to share, encourage and inspire other quilters to try something new that they never thought they would be able to do. Her quilts have won multiple awards in national and international shows and her work has been published in numerous quilting magazines. 

For almost 25 years, Cathie has been quilting and designing wearable art for herself, her family, and others. She loves sharing her quilting skills with novice and experienced quilters all over the world, and enjoys traveling to any location to do so. Over the years, Cathie has just about done it all in the world of fabric, quilting, and wearable art. Her specialties include all types of machine appliqué, decorative machine embellishment, wearable art design, and a wide range of piecing and quilt construction techniques. Her credentials include a Home Economics degree and textile skills honed over 44 years of sewing. Whatever your skill level, one of Cathie's goals is to help you realize your potential as a fabric artist. Another of her goals in a workshop situation is to empower each student with enough knowledge and confidence to continue experimentation beyond the classroom. She encourages each student to strive for their own unique style in quiltmaking and/or wearable art.

A quilter for over 30 years, Annie has been designing patterns and teaching quilting classes since 2000. Her quilts and designs have been published in Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting, Quilt, Quilter's Newsletter, and Memory Makers magazines. Annie's goal is to write patterns that are easy to understand with complete instructions to guide you every step of the way. She has been working with Superior Threads throughout the country for several years and has also taught classes at all of the Superior School of Threadology seminars.

Jeannette's quilts have been shown in Visions, Craft National, Fiberarts International, Tactile Architecture, and other national and international solo and group shows. Represented in public and private collections, her work has appeared in The Art Quilt, Visions: A New Decade, American Craft, Art/Quilt magazine, Fiberarts, Surface, New Zealand Quilter, Quilts Japan, and other publications. Jeannette also teaches, lectures, and writes about surface design and the art quilt in the US and overseas. She currently teaches in the studio school of the Oregon College of Art and Craft and has led workshops at art centers, conferences, and guild meetings in New Zealand, Canada, and throughout the US. Teaching others how to use dye, cloth, and stitch in an expressive way is an extension of the artwork she makes. Whether you'd like to learn the basics of design principles, the science of arranging color on fabric, the craft of elegant construction techniques, or the art of translating your inner vision to material reality with fabric and thread, join her for a workshop. Her classrooms are safe places where students combine their knowledge of "how to" with discoveries of "what if?"

Sherry Rogers-Harrison has been a longarm quilter since 1995. To date, her work is published in 10 books. She was nominated in 2003 for Teacher of the Year, hosted by The Professional Quilter and was a Celebrity Longarm Teacher for Quilt Central. Sherry manufactures exclusive longarm related products and travels internationally teaching her techniques to other machine quilters. One of Sherry's latest quilts, Tribal Fusion, is taking top quilt show honors. Tribal Fusion utilizes Sherry's ink-lique technique.

An award-winning quilter, Barbara won Best of Show in the first juried quilt show she ever entered.  Her work is in many private collections and has won awards and recognition in many regional and national shows. She most recently won 1st place in the Art/Pictorial category for the piece entitled "In Hiding" at the IQA Show in Houston, TX. She has been a teacher her entire adult life, recently retiring from Clark College in Vancouver, WA where she taught computer software application classes for 20 years. She now focuses full-time on creating contemporary fiber art pieces and leading quilting workshops that are fun and informative.

Sarah Kaufman, of Bend, Oregon - formerly from Shaw Island, Washington and Haleiwa Hawaii, is  passionate about Folded Log Cabin quilting - a unique process of  "log stacking" onto a foundation, resulting in handsome and weighty art pieces!  Sarah has had ribbon winning entries in many quilt shows, which includes APNQ, Honolulu Quilt Guild, Sunriver Quilt Guild, and the Mancuso shows. She was a featured quilter at LaConner Quilt & Textile Museum - spring of 2006. In 2008 she was a featured teacher at the Sisters Quilt show, with a gallery showing of her work. Since returning to Oregon in 2005, the Stitchin' Post in Sisters has been Sarah's primary venue for Folded Log Cabin classes.  Her quilts are in many private collections. Sarah's new book, Folded Log Cabin Quilts (Create Depth in a Classic Block from Traditional to Contemporary), C&T Publishing, will be introduced in July 2010.

Becky's love for oriental textiles and crafts began in the 1960's when her father was stationed in the Air Force in Okinawa. Their mama-san, who came weekly to teach them how to shop in the local markets and cook oriental dishes, also taught her to do bunka, a Japanese punch embroidery. Becky had been a sewer with an addiction for beautiful fabrics from a very early age, and she felt a real excitement at being taught different hand stitching crafts. Over ten years ago, she learned Sashiko from a Japanese woman and fell in love with the process. An easy embroidery technique using a running stitch, Sashiko is relaxing, fun, creating and even seems to bring about a sense of peace while stitching. In her efforts to learn as much as possible about Sashiko, she began collecting historical samples and now has a collection of over 40 pieces from the late 1800's to current day including garments, quilts, and household items. They opened their shop, Shibori Dragon, in September 2002, which specializes in Asian fabrics and other related textiles. Sashiko is one of their specialties.

Bonnie was born in Michigan, spent her young adult years in Southern California, and has lived in the Northwest for over thirty-five years. She has a B.S. in Management, and recently retired from an accounting career. Her heart has always belonged to designing with fabric. In the 1980's, several pieces of Bonnie's original wearable art were juried into national shows, including two appliquéd butterfly jackets that were juried into the prestigious annual "Designed to Wear" event for the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts. During the 1990's, her focus was more on quilting bed-sized quilts and original wall quilts. Many pieces of her original Wearable Art and Art Quilts have been sold at shows and galleries. Bonnie along with co-author Louis-Philippe O'Donnell authored Positively Postcards published by Martingale Press, which is now in its second printing.

The bead bug bit Carol Bauer at the tender age of 12 when she was given a small beading loom. As an adult, Carol continues her love affair with beads and jewelry. She has worked with metal clay (PMC), polymer clay, fused glass, copper enameling and, of course, beads.
Beads of all types are Carol's first love when it comes to artistry and she uses them to create personal adornment and to decorative objects of all sorts. Carol Bauer co-founded the Willamette Valley Bead Artists Guild, has exhibited in various art shows and has been teaching bead weaving for over 20 years.
Carol Bauer has had her work published in a number of books and is featured guest designer for Beads Baubles and Jewels a popular PBS television show. She works with cruise lines to bring beading as an optional entertainment aboard ship. Carol is featured on a number of online “how to videos” for Shipwreck Beads.