Janie Stidham is a designer and artist who uses re-purposed textiles, found objects, hand-dyed materials, as well as a variety of other mixed media along with intuitively stitched lines.

She is a Professor Emeritus in the College of Visual Arts + Design at the University of North Texas, where she taught Fashion Design for more than 25 years. Since 2020 she has been a visiting professor at Baylor University while continuing to work in her studio.  A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, she earned her PhD from Texas Woman’s University. 

This acclaimed artist has exhibited work at the Wichita Center for the Arts, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Texas Tech University Art Museum, and Keep Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, along with many other galleries in the southwest region of the US. Her work is featured in the Fort Worth Kimpton Harper hotel and in the corporate offices of Kancan Jeans in Los Angeles.

Happily married for 30 years, Janie Stidham has two adult daughters, one son-in-law, and two lovable felines. She is grateful to have wonderful, active parents who are 89 years young!

Christine is a lifelong fiber artist with experience in weaving, sewing, basketry, embroidery, felting, dyeing, knitting, crochet, and fiber sculpture. She has been weaving for 50 years, and for the last 30 years she has been weaving with wire to create sculptural expressions. She teaches how to weave with wire as warp and weft in face-to-face workshops, through her online fiber studio, and in her newly published book Weaving with Wire: Creating Woven Metal Fabric.

Christine continues bringing fiber arts into the educational world with Visiting Artist programs and workshops. She is a retired visual arts educator with local, state, and national arts education recognition. She continues teaching in K12 programs as a visiting artist and also leads professional development workshops for art educators in school districts across the state of Texas.

Art is like a slice of cells, revealing the intricate and expansive body of our world.

Ashling Han is a Chinese-American multidisciplinary artist, educator, and curator, whose practice harmoniously merges scientific rigor with artistic intuition. Poised to receive her Master of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College, Han's artistic journey is marked by a profound transition from a Bachelor of Biology Science from Chongqing Medical University in China to start art practice in the United States.

Since immigrating to America seven years ago, Han has adeptly employed ceramics, installation, fiber, video, sound, photography, and performance to investigate the intricate facets of the human condition. Her oeuvre delves into the nuanced interplay of life, culture, and the political tensions between China and the United States, highlighting marginalized voices and shedding light on underrepresented narratives.

Guided by her scientific background, Han's approach is characterized by a meticulous, research-based methodology that coexists with the intuitive spontaneity of artistic creation. As a perceptive observer, a newcomer, a woman, and an immigrant, she is profoundly influenced by the dichotomy between Eastern and Western cultures, striving to unearth commonalities through her work.

Han's art serves as a conduit for exploring societal dynamics, uncovering social issues, and articulating a resonant voice. Her practice is not only a reflection of her personal experiences but also an invitation for viewers to engage with the complexities of identity, culture, and social issues. Through her innovative use of diverse mediums, Han's work challenges audiences to contemplate the broader implications of her themes and contributes to a deeper understanding of our collective humanity.

Her works have been showcased in solo and group exhibitions across multiple galleries in Texas, Washington D.C., Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Additionally, she has received prestigious commissions for public sculptures from the Asian Arts & Culture Center. Han's exceptional talent has been recognized with the highest Merit Scholarship from MICA and the esteemed Eisenstein Zimelman Award.

Suzie grew up surrounded by fabric – her grandmother worked in a fabric store and created all the family clothes. However, Grandma wasn’t much of a teacher and Suzie didn’t really start sewing until inheriting a sewing machine and watching many wonderful PBS sewing shows. In the next 20 plus years, Suzie developed a unique style that incorporates lots of triangles and prints, designed on the wall and edited as it is sewn. Like many fiber artists, she plays with an assortment of materials and wants to DO IT ALL.

Suzie’s pieces have won multiple awards and been juried into the Houston Quilt Festival.

Suzie lives in Arlington with a cat (Milo), dog (Lucy), and husband (Mike) who bakes and hopes to retire someday. She raised 3 wonderful boys, none of whom like to sew, crochet, or do anything crafty.

Jami Roux is an award-winning doll maker based in Dallas, Texas, whose work is known for its exuberant celebration of human diversity and emotion, as well as for its witty, whimsical, and impeccably crafted details.

Jami first rose to local prominence as an active member of the American Sewing Guild’s Plano Chapter, where she became a much sought-after teacher and later held the office of president. She found her true calling in dollmaking just over a decade ago, when, during a visit to the Houston International Quilt Show, she was mesmerized by a doll on exhibit. On her return home, she wholeheartedly embraced this new direction in her work, enlisting mentors from her ASG circle and learning everything she could about the artform. Eventually, she began submitting her dolls to national challenges—a step that proved invaluable to her evolution as an artist. The feedback she received from top doll artists helped her to refine both her technique and artistic vision, and encouraged her to continue producing new work.

Since these early days, Jami’s work has rarely been out of the spotlight. Her dolls have been shown every year at the Houston International Quilt Show, and her work is also a crowd-favorite at the State Fair of Texas, where her piece Alicia garnered the 2022 Best in Show award and Dorothy won a blue ribbon in 2023. Jami’s work has also been featured in numerous publications, including the Aug/Sept/Oct 2018 issue of Art Doll Quarterly and the Winter 2023 issue of A for Artistic.

Jami remains an active member of the Plano Chapter of ASG, where she continues to present programs, and she is also a member of the Houston-based Material Girls Cloth Doll Club. When not preparing new work for competition, she loves to share her passion for dollmaking with others.

This acclaimed Texas artist has been the subject of interviews in Quilting Arts magazine and Art Quilting Studio Quarterly, and she is the author of a number of articles about contemporary quilting. She also has been a Textile Talk presenter for Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA), and several of her quilts are currently traveling in SAQA global exhibitions.

Carolyn's work has been juried into Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, Quilts = Art = Quilts at the Schweinfurth Center (NY), and Visions Museum of Textile Arts (San Diego). Twice her quilts have won the coveted Judge’s Choice award at the Dallas Quilt Show.

A native Texan, Carolyn retired in 2000 from a decades-long career at California State University, Fresno. She now gardens and makes art in McKinney, Texas. She is a devoted member of Dallas Area Fiber Artists.

Rebecca Shewmaker uses sewing and embroidery techniques to create landscape paintings from fabric and thread. She holds a BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Rice University (2006) and MFA from Texas Woman’s University (2018).

She has been awarded artist residencies for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild in New York, Zion National Park in Utah, and Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, and she will be Artist-in-Residence at Glacier National Park in Montana June 2024.

Shewmaker has taught art classes and workshops for a variety of age groups at institutions across the Dallas-Fort Worth area, including Texas Woman’s University and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Currently, she is represented by Craighead Green Gallery in Dallas.

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Born in Surrey, England, she moved to Texas in mid-teens. She received a BA with outstanding portfolio award in Communication Design from the University of North Texas. After graduation, she worked for Fossil for over a decade in design and art direction and finally as a lead watch designer. She has also worked for brands such as DKNY, Armani Exchange and a collaborative collection with Opening Ceremony whilst still at Fossil. She is currently a multidisciplinary artist working in the fields of product design and development, illustration and graphic design.

Nosheen Iqbal's Pakistani heritage plays a dominant role in her choice of color, pattern and texture. Pakistan has a rich history of pigment dyeing and embroidery techniques which varies in each province and dates back further than the Mughal Empire. She is also heavily influenced by the intricate and interlaced patterns found Islamic Art. Taking key elements from the classical tradition, she elaborates upon them in order to invent a new form of decoration and design.

Jackie describes herself as a visual learner; therefore, it is not surprising that dermatology was her chosen specialty as a physician.  She began a second career breeding and showing warm-blood sport horses when she and her husband retired to their ranch in Paradise, Texas.

Without the time demands of a practice and raising two children, she was also able to reconnect with her creative side, and became interested in quilting about 15 years ago. Her early quilts were always her own designs and were more modern and contemporary, but her quilting life was changed when, in 2019, she did “Sewing the Land” workshop with quilt artist Sue Benner, and discovered a whole new way to make quilts. Since then, she has taken multiple classes with Sue. Pat Pauly’s class on screen-printing with thickened dyes has also been a big influence on her more recent work.

Her quilts have been shown and won awards at the Quilters Guild of Dallas show, The International Quilt Festival, AQS Shows at Grand Rapids, Paducah, Virginia Beach, and Lancaster, PA. They have been featured in Modern Quilts Unlimited magazine. She has also exhibited in SAQA's Discovering Desert Diversity and, most notably, her quilt  “No Peace Left” was chosen for 2023 Quilt National.

Laura Post earned an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Printmaking and a B.A. from Swarthmore College in Studio Art and Asian Studies. She is currently Affiliate Assistant Professor of Printmaking at University of Dallas. She previously taught at University of Texas Arlington and Indiana University, Bloomington. Post’s work redefines portraiture by expanding the boundaries of the print medium. This includes transforming the fibers of the paper from a passive substrate to be printed upon into an active participant in the creation of the work. Through grant projects and workshops, she engages the community to remove and process invasive plants, then creates large-scale pulp paintings and pulp-cast prints. This work started in Utah in 2016, continued in Indiana, and now continues in Texas through collaborations with the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, the Fort Worth Water Department, the Fort Worth Public Library, and the Arlington Public Library through her LRP Studio, LLC, founded in 2020.

Post has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including at Wally Workman Gallery in Austin, Texas (2022), solo exhibitions at the Arts Fort Worth (2021), Arts Place Indiana (2020), Swarthmore College’s List Gallery (2019), and CR Ettinger Studio (2019). Her work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale, Shanghai, China; Umbra: New Prints for a Dark Age selected by Alison Saar at International Print Center New York; twice selected for PaperWest: National Works on Paper Juried Exhibition at the University of Utah to name a few.