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Owner and Instructor Marilyn Robert has worked in the field of fiber art for the past twenty years. Her work is exhibited internationally. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Fibers, and has been the recipient of study grants and awards, including a Japan Foundation Grant for research on traditional indigo-dyed textiles and contemporary fiber art. She has taught at the University of Oregon and Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon, and travels to teach workshops. In 2001, she organized a textile tour to Turkey. She teaches both surface design techniques, such as dyeing, printing, felting, mechanical and chemical manipulations of cloth, as well as handweaving. Marilyn is a co-owner of Eugene Textile Center. |
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Owner and Instructor Suzie Liles has taught weaving for 23 years. Suzie is very enthusiastic and loves to share her knowledge. She has taught workshops and seminars for adults and children in the United States and Canada. Suzie has a MFA in Fibers from the University of Oregon. She is a member of the Handweavers Guild of America, Surface Design Association, and Spinning and Weaving Association. She is very active in the fiber arts community; she was the chair of the 2001 Northwest Weaving conference assistant chair for the 2007 Surface design conference, Coordinator for the joint symposium Studio Arts Quilt Associates and Surface Design Association April 2008. She is now chairing the 2011 Northwest Weavers Conference. In March of 2008 Suzie Liles and Marilyn Robert opened the Eugene Textile Center in Eugene, Oregon. |
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Instructor Jason Pollen, Professor and Chair of the Fiber department at the Kansas City Art Institute and President Emeritus of the Surface Design Association He has taught at the Royal College of Art in London, Parsons School of Design, and Pratt Institute in NYC. In 2006 he was named Fellow by the American Crafts Council.
Pollen regularly exhibits his dyed, stitched and printed textile artworks internationally and has designed for the fashion and home textiles industries.
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Instructor Nancy Arthur Hoskins, a former college weaving instructor, is the author of The Coptic Tapestry Albums and the Archaeologist of Antinoé, Albert Gayet; Universal Stitches for Weaving, Embroidery, and Other Fiber Arts; Weft-Faced Pattern Weaves: Tabby to Taqueté; numerous articles; and has contributed chapters about Egyptian textiles to four other books. Nancy has researched Egyptian textiles in over fifty museums and has presented lectures and workshops for national and international guilds and conferences. Hoskins’ art fabrics have been in solo, group, and invitational exhibits. |
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Instructor A whirlwind of artistic energy ... Janis is always learning and sharing various media ... mostly fibers, spinning, dyeing, knitting, felting, wire twisting, bead craft and RAKU. Janis is the owner of dyelots fiber studio in Eugene, an instructor at the Eugene Textile Center and the Educational Talks and Demonstrations chairperson for the BSG. She teaches, demonstrates and vends at many shows around the Northwest. |
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Instructor Joan learned to weave at LCC in 1994 from Nancy Hoskins and continued at the U of O with Barbara Pickett. Eight years as the production weaver for Phyllis Kantor in her Judaic Weaving business was an education in computer dobby weaving. She has taken many workshops over the years and has self-taught in various techniques. Ply-split braiding and tablet weaving are favorites. Joan recently earned the M.F.A. in fibers at the University of Oregon, where she taught the weaving class. Also while there she learned Jacquard weaving and went to AVL in Chico for a workshop with Alice Schlein. |
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