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Clorinda Fresquez-Tria

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Home: Stephens City, Virginia

Unlock your creativity with Clorinda Fresquez-Tria, a skilled fiber artist who masterfully blends mixed media with thread painting.

Offering both in-person and virtual classes, Clorinda’s experience as a former teacher ensures clear instruction. Join Clorinda Design Studio today and explore the art of mixed-media fiber art!

Learn more about her work, lectures, and classes on her Facebook, Instagram, and website: Clorinda Design Studio

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Valerie Goodwin

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Home: Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Author of Art Quilt Maps available through C&T Publishing, Valerie S. Goodwin is an artist who began designing and making quilts in 1998. Her work uses architectural elements such as built form, city planning, and mapping as inspiration. These pieces usually focus on the geometrical relationships, patterns and ordering principles found in architecture.
Valerie has taught workshops nationally and internationally, including Australia, Canada, & Switzerland. These classes focus on the creation of fiber art maps, design thinking, and mixed media techniques. Workshops include MAP PLAY, MAPPING PERSONAL PLACES, FAVORITE PLACES, MAP HAIKU, & MONO-PRINTED MAP COLLAGE.
She also offers several lectures and trunk shows. Her workshops can be done virtually or in-person.
She is a retired Professor of Architecture at Florida A & M University’s School of Architecture; she was educated at Yale University and Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally. Selected venues include Quilt National, Art Quilts at Sedgwick, and Visions.
Student Comment:
I have attended many workshops and classes at locations such as Arrowmont, Penland and Split Rock and I state that Valerie’s course was one of the strongest workshops I have experienced. Because of the fact that her workshops increase the participants’ sensitivity  to the development of composition as well as mixed media quilting techniques, I would gladly recommend her workshops to friends, students, and colleagues!
Elizabeth V

Visit Valerie’s website: Valerie Goodwin Art

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Contact Valerie: [valeriegoodwin] @ comcast.net  (remove brackets and spaces)

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Linda Bratten

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Home: Armstrong, Missouri

Linda began sewing at a young age, but started quilting after the birth of her first son in the late 80’s. Linda has taught quilt guild programs throughout the Midwest.

She has also taught at the Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival, MQX Midwest and the Machine Quilters Showcase sponsored by The International Machine Quilters Association. She is an online instructor for Craftsy, and a National Educator with Baby Lock.

Linda has recently self-published a series of workbooks to enhance her Free-Motion Machine Quilting classes and has created several patterns and machine embroidery designs that she uses in her workshops.

Linda’s programs include several Machine Quilting Workshops with the Domestic Machine, Mixed Media Techniques both programs and workshops, Photo Transfer Techniques programs and workshops, and Thread Sketching/Painting Techniques workshops. Along with her presentations, when possible, she will bring a trunk show of her work.

She can be found on her website at Linda Bratten Creations. Fill out a contact form to request a detailed document outlining her current programs.

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Lynn Koolish

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Home: Berkely, California

Lynn Koolish is a fiber artist, teacher, and author. She is most known for her bright colors and hand-dyed fabric. She also creates mixed-media fiber art collages.

She offers single day and multi-day classes in fabric dyeing (including beginning, shibori, and water-soluble resists), mixed-media / alternative surfaces collage, fabric painting, and improvisational design and piecing. Her classes are process oriented giving students freedom to explore and experiment.

Lynn also offers 45 minute slide talks on her journey as an art quilter (Confessions of an Eclectic Quilter); Fabric Dyeing; Alternate Surfaces to Paint, Stitch, and Embellish; and Creativity From the Inside Out.

She has written/co-written 5 books including Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Dyeing, The Wonderful Colorful Wonder Wheel of Color (with Kerry Graham and Mary Wruck), Innovative Fabric Imagery for Quilts (with Cyndy Rymer), and More Photo Fun (with the Hewlett-Packard Company and Cyndy Rymer). She also has a DVD: Lynn Koolish Teaches You Printing on Fabric

Website: lynnkoolish.com

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Allyson Allen

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Home: California

Allyson is a state recognized award winning Master African American quilt Artist and Culture Bearer. Her work often combines traditional textiles and fibers with paper, recycled materials, and sometimes found objects to create unique, dimensional mixed media pieces, quilts, dolls and handmade books. Allyson offers a variety of fun and informative lectures and trunk shows including Improvisational Design and Piecing, Slave Era Quilts, and the Quilts of Gee’s Bend.

A Special Exhibitor & faculty for Mancuso Quilt Shows, Allyson specializes in needle turn applique’, dimensional embellishing, improvisational piecing techniques, and creative hand and domestic machine quilting. She is the National Craft Industry Alliance’s 2024 Golden Scissors Award recipient, and her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, and embassies around the world.

A member of Southern California Council of Quilt Guilds, Studio Art Quilt Associates, The Modern Quilt Guild, & Arts Council Menifee, visit Allyson’s website

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