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Gayle Roehm is a former management consultant who now devotes herself to knitting and other fiber arts. She teaches nationally for knitting events, guilds and yarn shops. Her designs have been featured in Knitter’s, Interweave Knits, A Gathering of Lace, and other publications. She has also sold work at a fiber arts gallery.

For 29+ years, Christa Schoenbrodt has been the owner of Studio Haus, a multi-disciplinary design studio that embraces various processes. Most recently, she has consistently been exploring surface design and enjoys blending the artisan quality of hand-printed pieces with her digital expertise.

SEFAA encourages and celebrates creativity one thread at a time by cultivating a vibrant regional fiber arts community while celebrating, supporting, and perpetuating all textile art forms. We exist to be your textile resource. We thrive by empowering you to reach your creative potential.

Jessica Kaufman is the owner/founder of Asheville's WAXON Batik & Dye Studio. With a genuine love of teaching (and a Masters in Crafts Education!) she leads classes on ice dyeing, tie-dye, batik, and Shibori virtually and all over the East coast.

Sheena O'Shea is an Army Veteran turned fiber artist after the first stab into wool. Sheena has been a long time lover of Art, graduating from UNC - Pembroke with a Bachelors in Studio Art, with a concentration in digital art. Sheena's mother in law introduced her to needle felting in 2023 and soon after they decided to partner up and start selling their work.

Nharah Clark is a fiber artist, instructor, and historic textile specialist. For the last six years, she has co-owned SPARKLE Studio, a working and teaching fiber arts studio located at Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment in Huntsville, AL. She is deeply immersed in historic reenactment and has devoted 25 years to learning and teaching the fiber arts methods of the past.

Sarah Spillers is an interdisciplinary visual artist living in Johnson City, Tennessee, while she pursues her Master of Fine Arts degree at East Tennessee State University. Spillers’ artistic practice uses sculptural exploration, painting, and printmaking to examine American consumerism, marketing practices, and mass production.

Mathilde Yakymets-Lind is a fiber artist and folklorist who spins wool from heritage sheep and weaves historical textiles. They lived in Estonia for nearly four years and did hands-on research on Baltic wool crafts for their PhD in folklore, which they completed in 2023.

Ginny has been weaving for the past 15 years. She has worked with most fiber related crafts and has never met a weaving or sewing tool she didn’t like. Ginny is a member of Mainely Weavers and the Weavers Guild of Boston where she served as the Chair of the Morning Workshops. She is also a member of the South End Woven Collaborative in the south end of Boston.

Deborah Robson is a fiber generalist who specializes in spinning, knitting, and weaving, although she experiments with all aspects of textiles. She is the fiber author of The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook and of The Field Guide to Fleece, in collaboration with livestock expert Carol Ekarius. For fourteen years she worked at Interweave Press, editing both books and Spin-Off magazine.