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JoEl Levy LoGiudice is a full-time studio artist from Ashland City, Tennessee whose work is celebrated across the Southeast. She is also an experienced instructor, who makes every class a creative adventure. She has taught at the Appalachian Center for Craft, Tennessee Tech, Arrowmont, the John C. Campbell Folk School, and SEFAA and is known for her expertise and infectious energy.

I am a 4th generation fiber artist living in Hendersonville, NC. I have been crocheting since childhood and have been making stuffed and 3-dimensional works in yarn and fabric for over 40 years. More often than not, I can be found working on my whimsical mixed media and freeform crochet bird and bear sculptures or my lace and figurative crochet earrings.

I have been teaching for over 40 years locally at the Mississippi Craft Center operated by the Mississippi Craftsmen's Guild, of which I am a fellow. I have also taught for guilds, and conferences, especially Convergences almost all of them since the 90s. In 2016 the Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi awarded me a Lifetime Achievement Award for my teaching.

Elaina is the shepherdess at Avillion Farm in Efland, NC where she tends flocks of Shetland and Jacob sheep, Angora goats, Suri Alpaca, and cares for a large herd of Angora rabbits. After 30+ years raising fiber-producing livestock and experiencing lots of fibers in various stages of preparation and utilization, I still enjoy all aspects of fiber production, processing and making.

Jimmy Parker, Animal Nutritionist, does rations formulation for the farmers co-op line and several independent feed companies for all species. He also does farm consulting 3 days a week in a territory that covers all of Alabama, half of Tennessee, West Georgia, East Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle.

I found weaving in 1991 and was obsessed in that first encounter. It took a while to find my way through commercial weaving, product weaving, finally coming back to where it all started – art weaving. In my previous professional life I was a musician and oboe teacher so it was natural to gravitate to teaching weaving – that special moment when someone lights up with understanding…

Bex grew up in her mother’s (Carol Leigh Brack-Kaiser) Hillcreek Fiber Studio. She started to learn weaving and dying at a young age and has traveled the country for over 40 years with the family business vending and teaching at fiber, weaving and knitting Shows.

Jen Swearington is an enthusiastic, high-energy, knowledgeable educator with twenty years’ experience in surface design and a lifetime devoted to working as an artist. She has operated Jennythreads, an independent handmade fashion studio and crafted a creative living since 2003.

Meagan Condon is a librarian and fiber artist with more than 10 years of teaching experience. Her areas of focus are microscopy of fiber, breed studies, plant fibers, natural dyes, digital community, and the science behind textiles. She has been published in PLY Magazine, Spin-Off Magazine, and The Wheel.

Jolie has explored a wide range of needle arts after learning to cross stitch at age four. Her cleverest unvention is a method for working stockinette-based laces reversibly. She has served on the boards of various guilds; published in PLY, Spin-Off, and Cast On; taught at major festivals, and shared her experiments in her blog for over 15 years.