Jen Swearington

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. She is the author of Printing on Fabric: Techniques with Screens, Stencils, Inks, and Dyes published by Lark Crafts, has exhibited in Quilt National three times, is a former Arrowmont Resident Artist, and current member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, as well as a South Carolina State Journeyman Beekeeper. She has taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, University of North Carolina-Asheville, Haywood Community College, and John C. Campbell Folk School. Her workshop topics include fashion design and sewing, surface design including shibori and screen printing, and related art-making processes such as drawing, paper cutting, book arts, sketchbook practices, mixed media, as well as beginning beekeeping.

Hands-on, nuts and bolts, real-world knowledge on how to master techniques to be successfully creative and efficient.