EVFAC’s 13th Annual
Fall Fiber Fiesta
Was held: November 21-23, 2025 in Downtown Santa Fe at the Scottish Rite Temple
Thank you to all who Volunteered, Participated, and Attended.
We had a wonderful time, and another successful Fall Fiber Fiesta!
The Española Valley Fiber Arts Center proudly hosted our 13th annual Fall Fiber Fiesta in Downtown Santa Fe at the Scottish Rite Temple.
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: November 21st, 22nd, and 23rd, 2025
Opening night preview gala, catered with live music: $20
Friday: 4pm - 7pm
Saturday & Sunday: Free
10am - 4pm
Featuring work by more than 40 member artists, many of whom are showcased below:
2025 Fall Fiber Fiesta Artist Participants
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Andrea Dupree
Andrea Dupree is a Pojoaque Valley-based artist and educator whose fiber art explores themes of interconnectedness, animism, and ecological awareness. Using felting, embroidery and reclaimed materials, she creates altar-like pieces that serve as tactile spaces for reflection and connection. Rooted in her South Louisiana upbringing and shaped by her Yoga and teaching practices, Andrea’s work is both meditative and playful- blending curiosity, materials and visions of unseen worlds.
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Anne Vickrey Evans
Anne Vickrey Evans has been a felt maker for over 40 years. Anne I makes hats, coats and jackets. Anne has displayed her work in a number of venues, and has received many awards.
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Arlene Prescott
Arlene Prescott has been designing wearable art for over 40 years. Arlene came to Santa Fe in 1979 to open her first studio and shop on Canyon Road. Arlene has enjoyed learning surface design and creating hand dyed cloth to incorporate in my easy to wear, “size friendly” creations. ArleneI also fashions unique scarves using varied textiles, which she calls mosaics. These designs make wonderful gifts as well as unique accessories.
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Art Through the Loom Weavers Guild
Art Through the Loom Weavers Guild is an award-winning 501c3 organization based in northern New Mexico. Established in 1978, our guild is dedicated to showcasing the diverse creativity of fiber arts in the marketplace. At ATTL, we place a strong emphasis on quality and preserving the rich fiber heritage of northern New Mexico.
Our community of members began with weavers, spinners, & dyers, but has since grown to encompass a shared passion for fiber and a commitment to nurturing our creative fiber community. In addition to weaving tapestries, rugs, and decorative & wearable pieces, many of our members also engage in activities such as knitting, crocheting, colcha, and creating fiber arts and sculptures. Our members also share their skills & knowledge by teaching & public outreach.
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Barbara Knupper
Barbara Knupper has been making fiber art for more than 50 years. Her pieces transform the basics of everyday style and lives. Today she is flooded daily with more ideas and inspiration than time! You’ll find Barbara in her studio everyday, designing, creating, and weaving.
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Barbara Marigold
Barbara Marigold is a multi-talented fiber artist. Barbara has been knitting custom sweaters for many years. Barbara has had many solo fiber art shows in many cities, including Saks Fifth Ave NYC, and has founded & Managed 5 art galleries throughout New Mexico. Barbara has been a teacher, clothing designer, and natural dyer for over 50 years.
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Carol Padberg
Carol Padberg’s art is incorporated into her lifeways, community and livelihood. Like nested bowls, this creative practice telescopes in scale, moving from intimate interspecies works, to local projects, to international educational initiatives. The urgency of this time demands new forms of inquiry that synthesize poetry and pragmatism, wonder and action, generosity and courage. Carol believes craft skills and tending sheep can bring resilience, beauty and community into focus.
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Catherine Kelly
Catherine Kelly is a fiber artist working in contemporary rug hooking and junk journal book making. She loves to dye for her own pieces as well as custom applications for other artists. She prefers recycled and previously used fibers. Her style is best described as abstract realism and she enjoys collage and relating elements both in paper works and cloth wall pieces, and rugs.
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Chauncey Foster
Chauncey Foster creates handmade paper and journals from reclaimed cotton textiles, turning waste into objects of beauty and use. His work blends sustainability, craft, and storytelling, with each piece carrying traces of the fabrics it once was. By reimagining discarded textiles as paper, Chauncey explores cycles of renewal and the creativity found in limitation. His journals and papers invite people to write, sketch, and imagine on surfaces as unique as the stories they hold. For him, the process is both an environmental practice and a way to connect people through the tactile experience of handmade materials.
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Debbie Jones
Debbie Jones has been playing with fabric since early childhood, making crafts and doll clothes. This lifelong love affair with fabric and fiber slowly evolved into fashion design and then art quilts and contemporary crafts. She's studied with the best and has also developed her own specialized techniques. Debbie is a fiber art rebel, taking fiber art in bold new directions! Her studio is an explosion of fiber and fabric, dyes and supplies, all in the joyful creation of 3-D fiber vessels, art quilts, fabric collage and more. Her artwork has won many awards and is in collections around the world.
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Elizabeth Jenkins
Weaving since 1979, Elizabeth Jenkins has won numerous awards at juried art shows over the years. Her work focuses on weaving and textile art. She is enhancing the visual complexity of her work by using a discharge dyed process on the surface of her woven pieces.
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Eri Yost
Eri Yost is an artist and maker who transforms vintage Japanese kimonos into contemporary, functional art. Her work is rooted in honoring the beauty and handcraft of textiles passed down from her mother and grandmother, both kimono teachers. By reimagining these garments into bags, slippers, table runners, and accessories, Yost gives them new life, while preserving their history. Each piece is carefully made by hand, highlighting delicate embroidery and fabric textures that might otherwise be forgotten. Yost is deeply inspired by sustainability—turning recycled textiles into art that bridges cultures and generations. Her goal is to share the timeless elegance of kimono with a modern audience while encouraging mindful choices in fashion and craft.
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Heather Carlson
Santa Fe artist Heather Carlson is the owner and designer of Sundrop Fiber Co. With over a decade of experience in knitting natural fibers, Heather is highly skilled in her craft. She is now exploring the world of weaving, inspired by the interplay of colors and textures to create unique and luxurious pieces. Heather's business focuses on promoting small family-owned businesses, hand dyers, and local mills by using yarns that are crafted with meticulous care and attention to detail. The use of these natural fibers highlight the inherent beauty of these yarns and the dedication of those who create them.
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Jan Haller
Jan Haller’s artistic journey began when she started painting 47 years ago. In this Intuitive Painting community Jan discovered an unparalleled sense of freedom, risk-taking, curiosity and joy that continues to inspire her life and work. While working at Vortex Yarns in Taos, New Mexico Jan got hooked on making animal hats. Jan’s hats have been sold in Aspen, Atlanta, Santa Fe, and San Francisco. Jan’s work is theatrical and transformational, lighting up the wearer and the atmosphere when someone finds “their” hat. Jan makes hats and other curious, hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind treasures for the quirky bird in all of us.
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Jolene Petrowski
Jolene Petrowski is a fiber artist specializing in nature-inspired macrame wall art and plant hangers. Drawing inspiration from the textures and colors of the natural world, Jolene’s work blends traditional knotting with contemporary design. Her work incorporates floral motifs, vines, and organic forms. Jolene’s pieces are created using sustainable practices, including recycled cotton cord, upcycled materials, and found objects such as driftwood and vintage spindles. Each work is a balance of texture, detail, and imagination—meant to spark connection, joy, and a deeper appreciation for nature. Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Jolene shares her creative journey through her live series Macrame Mondays and her brand, Macrame & More.
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Josie Foster
Josie has enjoyed fiber arts since learning to crochet in 4th grade. She loves the process and product of knitting with natural fibers to create warm, colorful accessories.
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Karen Montgomery
Since 1996 Karen has been weaving wearable art. Karen loves the entire process of this time, labor and patience intensive endeavor from creative idea through the final touches on a piece. Living in the beautiful Sonoran Desert of Arizona for many years was a great source of creative inspiration. Moving to Santa Fe in 2015 has continued to inspire her work from the ever-changing light, colors and shadows of the landscape.
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Kate Jacobsen
Kate Jacobsen is a textile maker, her goal is to explore the infinite possibilities in the fiber art world. Kate uses multiple different techniques, including knitting, weaving, sewn cloth, and other materials like wood. Kate creates beautiful machine knitware, as well as weavings, wall art, and now sculpture, and home decor.
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Kathy Konecki
Kathy Konecki is a Santa Fe resident for over 17 years, having moved from Chicago where she grew up. She learned how to knit, sew, crochet, and embroider from her mother at the age of 10. She is an avid knitter and co-owns her own knitting business, called Necessary Little Luxuries, LLC, through which she designs, knits and sells wearable accessories and knitted art pieces from luxury yarns. She is a member of several fiber arts guilds in New Mexico and enjoys doing fiber arts shows. Her work is currently being shown and sold at the Prickly Poppy Women's Wear gallery on Canyon Road.
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Kayla Paul
Kayla Paul has been a crafter since the age of 7. Paul studied Fibers at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI. Kayla is a weaver, spinner, dyer, hand and machine knitter and has been doing Navajo rug restoration for the past 24 years.
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Kelsey VanDemark
Kelsey VanDemark is a bookbinder and leatherworker specializing in handbound journals made from a variety of textiles and fine papers. Kelsey has been running her journal business, La Luna Textiles, for 11 years. She initially taught herself how to bind books at the library in Oklahoma City, and later took courses in fine binding at the American Academy of Bookbinding in Telluride, Colorado. Travel highly influences Kelsey's work, and she started lining her leather journals with woven textiles while living in Cusco, Peru in 2018. Textile lined leather journals are Kelsey's signature item, as well as refillable notebooks and coptic stitch journals made with fine paper. Kelsey loves exploring creating books with all kinds of textiles and paper.
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Laura Ninnemann
Laura learned to knit and sew at an early age from her mother and grandmother in pursuit of her Scandinavian roots and is the creative passion behind Lone Raven Studio(TM). After earning her Bachelor’s degree from Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO at the age of 56, Laura enjoyed a ten-year career as an archaeologist at Mesa Verde National Park before retiring in 2014 to pursue her love of fiber arts full-time. Laura’s current interests include designing and creating limited-edition Norse Gnomes, Northern Lights felted luminaries, and Scandinavian krokbragd weavings, in addition to her traditional line of handknit, woven, and felted apparel and accessories.
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Laura Salamy
Laura Salamy is the “not-so-traditional” fiber artist behind High on Hooking. She serves as President of the Adobe Wool Arts Guild, New Mexico’s only rug hooking guild and has taught extensively. Her work is seen in shows, online, in various books, in Rug Hooking Magazine, and in the Association of Traditional Hooking Artists Magazine.
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Le Adams
Le has been a quiltmaker since her teenage years and has made quilts of all sorts for many years since. Major work has been in archaeology, in building 2 mud houses here in New Mexico, and farming organic vegetables for 20 years. Quilt-making is still an ever-changing adventure -- learning to use solids, neutrals, and the rainbow of every color, in styles traditional, contemporary, and wonky/improvisational. Always known as the 'Scrap Queen', she considers it a challenge to use up all the little pieces. She is always available for custom work.
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Liane Brown
Liane Brown, owner of Santa Fe Buffalo Designs, is a native Santa Fean who has turned her life-long love of spinning fiber and weaving into creatively designed products that are softer than imagined. Her technique employs special blends of undyed Navajo-Churro sheep’s wool, alpaca wool, and buffalo hair, which adds an exotic fiber into the wool and creates a stronger yarn product. Other exotic fibers she spins are wolf hair and coyote hair. Her products include yarn, bison leather bags and other similar products.
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Lisa Joyce Deburlo
Lisa Joyce Deburlo has been an artist since childhood. Joyce Deburlo has been making fiber arts in Northern NM for over 40 years. She says that everytime she walks into her studio, it is still an adventure. Deburlo loves finding new expressions in existing materials. Touch, feel, color, shapes and texture are what inspire her most.
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Mari Quillman
In 2019, Mari Quillman acquired ten alpacas, shortly after she purchased a spinning wheel and got hooked on spinning. In 2021, she started her fiber business, Rockin Q Ranch LLC. Initially, she was only spinning alpaca fiber but soon realized that many people preferred colorful yarns spun from a variety of fibers. As a result, Mari offers hand-spun yarns for sale in addition to other alpaca fiber products including raw fiber, roving, and bird nest fiber cages. Mari is a wildlife biologist by training and loves working with animals and livestock.
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Maria Jonsson
Maria Jonsson has studied textiles and fiber techniques in both Sweden and the US. She uses many different fiber art techniques, including weaving, knitting, and crocheting, using recycled or reused materials. This is part of a larger movement which keeps materials out of our landfills, and good for the planet. Her fiber art ranges from clothing and accessories, floor rugs, to fine-art wall hangings and occasionally large public fiber art installations in architectural space.
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Mary Jo Stipe
After majoring in art in college, I pursued a career in the fabric industry: tracking color and fashion trends, marketing and promotional writing, and giving trend presentations at major fabric expos. After retiring to Lamy, New Mexico, in 2014, I finally had a dedicated art studio and the time to seriously pursue my art.
While I enjoy exploring a variety of subject matter in my work, I always return to plants, trees and leaves. I interpret these elements through surface design techniques — fiber-reactive and rust dyeing, screen- and mono-printing and painting on fabric. My current passion is cyanotype printing, which I continue to explore, most recently with multiple exposures, layered prints and various toning media.
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Maryann Kot
Mary Kot was a 2D artist and teacher for 15 years. After moving to New Mexico, Kot was introduced to fiber arts, leading her to designing and constructing bags and purses.
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Menolda Bakker
Menolda Bakker is a European guild certified milliner and textiles designer. Menolda has her own hat studio, "Atelier Obhut" in White Rock New Mexico and has made hats since 1997. Her hats are one of a kind hand made products using high quality materials. Menolda has been volunteering at the costume shop of the Santa Fe Opera, and has shown at several expositions in New Mexico.
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Merce Mitchell
Merce Mitchelle creates hand spun yarn, hand dyed yarns and felt artwork. Mitchell also hand dyes and blends fiber batts for spinning and felting. Mitchell has been a fiber artist for 35 years, during that time teaching, vending at fiber shows, owning a yarn shop and producing fiber festivals. Her current concentration is the dyeing of yarns and fiber, the color exploration and play, making fiber supplies for makers.
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Natasha Nargis
Natasha Nargis has been weaving since 1971, when she lived in San Francisco. In 1974 Nargis moved to Santa Fe, where she has lived and worked ever since. All of my Natasha’s pieces are hand-dyed. Nargis’s favorite dye techniques are ikat and shibori. Natasha only uses natural fibers in her work, including linen and silk, with the use of some cotton, alpaca and cashmere.
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Pamela Whitlock
Pamela Whitlock considers herself both a craftsman and artist. Whitlock creates pieces that have both the practical function of providing warmth to the wearer while enhancing the beauty of everyday life.
Pamela focuses on the multi-harness weaving technique called shadow weave. She uses bamboo yarn for its durability, its crisp visual effect, and its silky-soft hand.
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Perla Kopeloff
Perla Kopeloff is a fiber artist who creates felted wearables using silk and merino wool. Perla’s pieces are one of a kind, and reversible. She also produces handmade paper that is incorporated in collages, prints and journals. Perla resides in southwest Colorado.
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The Ramah Navajo Weavers Association
The Ramah Navajo Weavers Association is a grassroots group of traditional Dine weavers who live and work in the Ramah Navajo Community in west-central New Mexico. The weavers work collectively to promote the art of Ramah Navajo weaving, including the traditional methods of preparing and spinning local sheep wool for weaving, the use of natural wool colors and earth-based pigments--from plants, insects and minerals--to dye the wool, and time-honored hand-weaving techniques to create one-of-a-kind tapestries on a Dine vertical loom.
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Robbie Berg
Robbie Berg is a Fiber artist designing and making Fiber pottery, art quilts, and other items from fabric, thread, beads, and more. Berg is also a passionate teacher of many Fiber arts techniques.
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Shari Hirst
Shari Hirst collects unusual yarns and things that can be used in the creation of garments. At present Shari is teaching knitting classes and trying to encourage students to work outside the box, to add what they want to a garment's design, and be creative. Shari has been knitting for over 70 years.
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Sonya Byrnes
Sonya Byrnes specializes in creating unique felt art using wet felting and needle felting techniques, transforming wool roving into stunning pieces that rival traditional painting mediums.
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Suzie Fowler-Tutt
Suzie Fowler-Tutt is a multidisciplinary fiber artist, focusing on hand woven home decor and ready to wear textiles. Suzie’s work widely varies from modern freestyle weaving to traditional Chimayó tapestry. Whether working on a floor loom, walking loom, or inkle loom, her pieces are rooted in traditional styles with a modern twist. Additionally, she is an accomplished seamstress and creates functional pieces, such as totes and clothing, incorporating hand painted fabric and upcycled remnants in her work.
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Vera Neel
Vera Neel is an accomplished felt maker and botanical print artist working with silk and wool for more than a decade. Her practice combines traditional techniques with contemporary vision, transforming natural fibers into tactile artworks and wearable pieces that reflect a deep connection to the environment. Specializing in eco-printing with leaves and plants, Vera captures the subtle beauty of nature directly onto fabric, creating one-of-a-kind designs with organic elegance. With over ten years of experience, she has developed a distinctive artistic voice and a strong reputation as both a creator and educator. Through workshops and classes, Vera shares her knowledge and passion, inspiring students to explore fiber art and sustainable practices.
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Victoria Collins
Victoria Collins raises, preps, cards, spins and weaves all her own wool using a traditional process.
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The Warp Zone
The Warp Zone is the combined weaving work of Pando Speer and Dain Daller. In the desert of northern New Mexico, near Abiquiu, they weave and create their unique ikat textiles. They have spent the last 15 years building their own off-grid home, and have recently completed and moved into their new weaving studio. They have always woven at home, but this new space that is larger and purpose-built for their craft will open new opportunities for creation and experimentation.
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Zandra Hall
Zandra Hall is a native New Mexican who strives to incorporate the beauty and patterns of the land around her into her textiles. Zandra was taught to weave as a child by her mother on the ubiquitous potholder loom, backstrap looms, and a small two harness table loom. She is a member of two guilds in Texas and have demonstrated spinning and weaving at the Houston Livestock Show, as well as in several museum and school settings.
The Annual Fall Fiber Fiesta is made possible with generous support from: