Audrey Butler

Audrey Butler earned her BS and Ph.D. in Chemical and Materials Engineering from the University of Iowa. In 1999, she joined the University of Iowa Chemical & Biochemical Engineering faculty as a lecturer. She also served as the departmental honors advisor and program ABET accreditation coordinator, guiding the program through three successful cycles and earning “exemplary report” status in 2015. Career highlights include increasing the diversity of students participating in summer high school programs, revamping the undergraduate unit operations lab course, and maintaining high student satisfaction scores in all her courses. Volunteerism has always been an important part of her life. She currently serves on the board of the PACE Center for Girls for Volusia & Flagler Counties and the Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens Board. In the past, her family delivered Meals on Wheels for almost a decade. She has also been a GED math tutor, a Cub Scout den mother and assistant Girl Scout troop leader, elementary school volunteer coordinator, and PTO president. She is certified as an administrative official with USA Swimming, the national governing body for competitive swimming, and trains others for certification. She has officiated at events for beginning swimmers, clubs, Big Ten conference championship meets and NCAA Division I Men’s Championships. Her interests include running, cooking, travel, and reading. She enjoys fiber arts and has taught quilting. One of her mini quilts was featured in a digital magazine in November 2015 and her larger piece, A Year of Travel was accepted to QuiltCon 2022. She and her husband Barry have three adult children who are scattered all over the US.

Becky Stack

Becky is a textile artist who produces pictorial works using fabric and fiber. She has exhibited at Court House Cultural Center, Stuart, Fl., 2017,2021; Dunedin Art Center 2017; and Butterfield Garage gallery, St. Augustine, Fl. And has had works in special exhibits during AQS International Quilt festivals in Grand Rapids, MI, Paducah, KY, Charleston, SC. Becky was awarded Best Pictorial Quilt at the Mancuso Mid-Atlantic World Quilt Festival, 2019. She is a member of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), Fiber Artist Network, Jacksonville, Fl. and Dirty Dozen Fiber Artists, Melbourne, Fl.

Bobbi Baugh

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Bobbi Baugh is a self-employed artist working from her home studio in DeLand, Florida. Previously, Bobbi had a career of 30+ years in commercial printing; sales/customer service, graphic design and stationery product design. Bobbi is a graduate of Stetson University. Her undergraduate studies included a double major in studio art and speech communication. She received her Master’s from Stetson in humanities and education. Bobbi is an active volunteer in the DeLand community. She is a juried artist member of SAQA. She serves the Florida Region as newsletter editor, catalog designer and chair of the exhibition committee. Bobbi Baugh’s work is an invitation to look beyond the surface. Inspired by the relationship between what is seen and what is not seen, Bobbi has created a narrative body of work focused on the inner journey of a young girl. She also creates abstracted landscapes that give voice to what is hidden or beneath the observed natural reality. Bobbi finds collage with hand printed fabrics to be the perfect medium for what interests her: low-tech, hands-on explorations of layers.

Cathy Parker

Cathy began quilting in 1987 focusing mainly on making traditional quilts. Over the years , she have been drawn to the art quilt world. She loves experimenting with all things fiber and a little paint thrown in as well. Cathy is a member of the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) and has submitted pieces for their trunk show, spotlight and benefit auctions. She also has submitted work to the International Quilt Museum fundraiser for Ukraine.

Dij Pacarro

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Dij Pacarro has been working with textiles and fibers most of her life. She took a quilt class in the 1990s and found her true passion. Beginning with traditional patterns, she soon branched out into her own designs and methods. Dij is enthusiastic about her medium. She has found that textiles provide a way for her to express herself artistically. She enjoys “painting” with fabric and thread, and gravitates toward bright colors. She works with small bits of fabrics to create dimension, fusing them in place and adding lots of stitching to give life and texture to each piece. It's labor intensive, but time flies as she loses herself in the joy of creating. Dij grew up in Hawaii, moved to California, then to Florida, where she's been living in Brevard County with her husband, Rudy, since 2001. She says "I guess I just keep heading east - but always where there's lots of sun. I think that tropical warmth is reflected in my art."

Ellen Lindner

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A former flight instructor, Ellen didn’t try her hand at art until her forties. After learning the basics, she quickly began to experiment, and over the course of years, developed her own fabric construction techniques. She often participates in juried shows and has won quite a few awards throughout the country. Now using her teaching skills at a lower altitude, she teaches online, as well as via her episodes on Quilting Arts (PBS) and “The Quilt Show” online. Ellen has also written two eBooks and several articles.

Gabriele DiTota

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I create art quilt collages of fabrics and fibers held together with stitch. I especially like to approach the subject matter from a tangent and design works that tell a story. These stories may be based on personal experiences, photographs from my travels or on research into subjects that stir my interest. The materials for these art quilts rely heavily on hand painted, hand dyed or hand printed fabrics. Recently I have included work using a photographic process called cyanotype. I love the freedom that comes from using fabrics that I have created as well as the effects that I am able to achieve with those fabrics.

Kathryn Baldwin Robinson

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From an early age I felt compelled to make things, everything from clothes, crochet, photography, and quilts. Eventually I realized that my greatest joy is in collaging together elements which I created through various processes such as dyeing, printing, painting, altering photos and cyanotype prints. Florida has been home most of my adult life and in recent years I have enjoyed living on the Space Coast of Florida.

Liz Canali

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Liz Canali has been involved with art and crafts since early in her life. Trained as a commercial graphic artist, she first worked as a paste-up artist at the telephone company but quickly moved into the education field. Liz worked as an elementary art teacher in Hopkinton, MA and then as the jewelry and weaving teacher at Northfield Mt. Hermon School in Northfield, MA. At the same time she owned and created one-of-a-kind and art-to-wear jewelry for her company, Canali Silver. She sold her work to individuals and galleries throughout the US. Times changed and so did Liz. Her art journey brought her into the world of art administration. She was director of Leverett Crafts and Arts in Leverett, MA and then returned to her roots as a graphic artist. Combining her design experience and her husband Al’s office and sales experience, the two opened Canali Designs more than 25 years ago. Liz is the graphic designer for the business, focusing on print and web coordinated projects, logo design for small to medium businesses. In search of a non-computer creative outlet, Liz rediscovered fiber arts, especially felt. Liz began researching traditional felting techniques. Her latest wall pieces are made with the Florida climate in mind. Felt is a sustainable, renewable and biodegradable textile. An excellent insulator of heat and sound, it is also anti-static, non-allergenic, self-extinguishing, a controller of humidity and absorber of pollutants. These intrinsic properties help to maintain a healthy interior that is pleasant to live in. Her recent wall hangings and felted light shades reflect this direction in her latest work.

Maggie Dillon

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Maggie Dillon is an award-winning textile portrait artist from Sarasota, Florida. Influenced by the nostalgia of old film, Maggie captures candid moments from the 1930’s to the 1950’s in her textile work. Particularly choosing images that appear photo-journalistic, her work celebrates an unawareness of the camera that is simultaneously ordinary and meaningful. It evokes a wistfulness, a feeling of nostalgic happiness, but also loss of something deeply important and soulful. There’s no showing off, just pure moments... in the moment. Maggie has won a number of awards in fine art exhibitions and textile art shows, including first place in Florida’s Finest, Art Center Sarasota, 2018. Her work and articles have been published in books and magazines such as "Art Quilting Studio: Series Showcase" and "Dare to Dance: an Art Quilt Challenge." Maggie Dillon has a B.A. in Fine Arts from Flagler College, Saint Augustine.

Marilyn Seibring

Marilyn Seibring is a late-in-life graduate, with high honors, from the University of Florida’s College of Fine Arts. She likes to tell people that she got her degree and joined AARP in the same year. Since her graduation in 1993 she has lived in both Florida and North Carolina where she has worked in various mediums, including clay, oil and water color paints, and mixed media collage, until finally settling on the fiber arts. While she has exhibited and marketed her wares over the years (and occasionally won awards), she has always felt that the joy of the creative process is more important than the end product. Sometimes, however, the end product seems worth sharing with the world. Lately she has been making fabric books and experimenting with the art of pin weaving, as well as crocheting afghans for her five grandchildren. She currently resides in Melbourne with her husband of 60 years.

Normajean Brevik

Normajean Brevik is a fiber and mixed media artist, author and teacher who resides in Ormond Beach, Florida. She likes to blur the rules of traditional fiber art and quilt making by combining unusual materials and techniques into her work. Her passion is teaching others and often creates for the purpose of having her work published by one of the many publishers with whom she works. Whether she teaches in the written word or in person she is delighted to share her artsy discoveries. She has taught many classes throughout the United States and online overseas. She has also taught at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design by Special Appointment and appeared on public Television. She is currently the local leader of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) an international non profit art quilt organization. She has three separate studio areas in her home, a “soft studio” for stitching fabric, threads, fibers, yarns etc., a “hot studio” where she creates soldered and metal objects and a “mixed media room” where paper, paint and mixed might be incorporated into her work. Her love of the ocean is obvious in much of her chosen subject matter and often donates a portion of the proceeds of her artwork to the clean-up of our oceans.

Regina Dunn

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In 2001, Regina Dunn started her artistic journey by making traditional quilts. She ventured more into the art world by attending workshops, joining art groups, and trying many techniques over the years as she developed a personal style. She found successes being accepted into juried national and state venues. In 2015, Dunn was accepted into Jane Dunnewold’s Art Cloth Mastery Class. Her latest works, multi-media constructions, are made from fabrics she creates using hand dyeing, printing methods, and other types of surface design. Dunn has been involved in local projects such as getting one of her works reproduced on vinyl and wrapped around a utility box in her town in 2017. She worked on a collaboration at Stetson University to help print three large panels of silk for an exhibit in 2018. She continues to advance her craft by studying surface design techniques and developing them further each year.

Sandra Shenker

Sandy is known for her unusual approach to art. Flashes of inspiration build upon themselves, constantly causing her to ask What if? Why can’t I? and How would I do that? As she solves these questions, she creates unusual works of two-dimensional and three-dimensional contemporary art in a style that defies definition and has earned recognition and awards. Her independent studies and training with internationally recognized artists have provided her with a wide range of perspectives and techniques that she employs as she develops and brings projects to fruition.

Sandy's Exhibit Pieces

• Gertrude – soft sculpture, 64” x 50” x 60”
• Rock Star – quilt,28” x 30”
• Leaves Botanical #6 – quilt, 27” x 22”
• Keystone – quilt, 49” x 47”

Teddy Pruett

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Teddy Pruett, a native Floridian, was born into a military family and moved nearly eighty times. Retired from a 25 year career as a Certified Appraiser of quilts, she is a nationally recognized expert in the field of quilt history. Her appreciation for those antique textiles led to her love of working with vintage fabrics. She began quilting in 1973 using traditional methods and patterns but soon rebelled against the many rules and restrictions. She tossed the rules out and began creating Second Hand Story quilts made of recycled textiles. Teddy is a published writer as well as award winning quilter, so text and stories appear in her quilts. Teddy's work has appeared in books, magazines, art galleries and museums and she has been featured on a PBS special.

“I recycle needlework made by unknown women who came before me. I can't bear to see the work of someone’s heart thrown away, so I use bits and pieces of articles made by hand - embroidery, crochet, clothing, anything. Nothing is too precious or too ragged for me to use.”