Andrea Beane has always been a maker. She learned to crochet, knit and embroider from her grandmother when she was ten. She spent time in her basement making collages, painted rocks and hand sewing Barbie clothes. By Junior High she learned how to sew in Home Ec and continued to sew throughout high school. Along the way, she became an artist.

Currently, Andrea is working with fiber, fabric and mixed media. She collects vintage and ethnic fabrics to use in her work. Repurposing and recreating something new from the fabrics she finds at yard sales and thrift stores elevates and uplifts the relevance of everyday items.

Andrea Dupree is a fiber artist and educator based in the Pojoaque Valley, with roots in South Louisiana. Her work is guided by animism, ecofeminism, ritual, and a lifelong interest in relationships with the natural world. She approaches materials as collaborators, allowing their histories, imperfections, and unique qualities to help guide what she makes. She's currently working on a felt sculpture, found object & video art installation - Gathered & Felt -  that will be on view at the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Vladem Contemporary January–April 2027. Her felt sculpture will also be featured in a group exhibition at the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque during Winter 2027.

Andrea creates hand-made sculpture, functional vessels and wearables using wool, plant fibers and reclaimed materials. Her processes include wet & needle felting, embroidery and sculptural assemblage.

IG: @andreadupree

Anna is a self-taught weaver, spinner, dyer, maker.  Her work focuses on recycled, found, repurposed and locally sourced materials. Anna sees that the over utilization of new resources given our current pace is clearly outstripping our planet's ability to recover. Weaving can be a very expensive endeavor.

Anna works with recycled, found and repurposed materials, as well as locally sourced wool/hair. Anna makes all kinds of items including home goods: rugs, hand towels, table runners, whimsical bags, as well as tapestries and wall art.

Anne has been a felt artist for over 40 years. Anne has received awards from the Surface Design Association, The Handweavers Guild of America, The Uncommon Threads Wearable Art Fashion Show, and many other art shows. Recently one of her garments received Second Place in the HGA Convergence Wearable Art Fashion Show in New Orleans in August, 2026.

Anne makes garments and accessories from hand made felt made mostly with alpaca and merino, in addition to silk fabric. She primarily uses the wet felting techniques and some needle felting.. She enjoys making felt yardage that is sewn into garments. Anne also makes needle felted figures and seamless wet felted hats and sewn needle felted beret, totes, phone pouches, and other bags and purses and scarves.

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Annie MacHale has perfected her artistic style in inkle weaving over the last 50 years. Her specialty has been producing one-of-a-kind guitar straps and other wearable, usable works of art. She is known for her innovative design and use of bright, bold colors. 

Annie is also a popular author and teacher of inkle weaving.

Annie designs and weaves comfortable, usable, and wearable straps for carrying bags, purses, musical instruments, phones, and more. 

IG: @aspinnerweaver 
Facebook: SpinnerWeaver

Barbara Marigold is a multi-talented fiber artist. Barbara has been knitting custom sweaters for many years. She has had many solo fiber art shows in many cities, including Saks Fifth Ave NYC. She has founded & managed many art galleries throughout New Mexico. Barbara has been a teacher, clothing designer, and natural dyer for over 50 years.

Currently Barbara Marigold  is creating hand woven garments and rugs. She incorporates her own weavings into the beautiful jackets, coats, and blouses that she creates.

Carol Padberg is an interdisciplinary artist whose work brings together craft, agriculture and community. As an artist, farmer, writer and researcher, her initiatives explore resiliency through poetic intervention and pragmatic engagement. Carol is the recipient of a 2026 NEA Community Arts Fellowship to create the KINection Garden at Rio Fernando Park in Taos, NM. She is currently working with Oyster Mushroom mycelia to form Talismanic Portals, wearable artworks with mycelia integrated into local clay pods and handmade textiles. Past projects include an ecological neighborhood studio for teens (2016), an intergenerational Pollinator Festival held in a city center (2018), and many Meeting Mycelia workshops (2019-2024) that featured wearable mycelial textiles activated with Oyster Mushrooms. She raises sheep in Ranchos de Taos.

At this years’ Fall Fiber Fiesta, Carol will provide felted fleece collars from my flock of Leicester Longwools, hand made textile tools, skirted raw fleeces, CSA memberships for our 2027 Fiber Arts kit subscription, and some new larger felted items.
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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 make custom work for other artists. She focuses on the use of recycled and previously used fibers. Her style is best described as abstract realism. Catherine enjoys collage including this element in her paper work, cloth wall pieces, and rugs.

Chauncey Foster is an experiential artist and environmental educator whose work explores the intersection of collective action, environmental philosophy, and applied ecology. With a background in biology and conservation, he transforms local cotton textile waste into handmade paper, journals, and mixed-media works. Through we.grow.eco., a Northern New Mexico nonprofit he co-directs with Noah Mertz, Chauncey uses traditional papermaking and bookbinding techniques to explore waste, material cycles, and our relationship with(in) the environment. His practice extends beyond the studio through workshops, education, and community projects that invite people to see discarded materials as resources for creativity and collective change.

At we.grow.eco., we reclaim local cotton textile waste and transform it into handmade paper through a small-batch, hand-pulled papermaking process where fibers are pulped, formed into sheets, pressed, and air-dried to create richly textured paper with natural deckled edges. We also incorporate reclaimed manufacturing paper and natural fibers like abaca into select works. For Print Fiesta, we will bring a collection of handmade paper, hand-bound journals, stationery, and printed works that highlight sustainable craft and experimental material processes. Our journals are bound using traditional techniques including pamphlet stitch, saddle stitch, buttonhole, and coptic binding, and our papers are designed for printmaking, calligraphy, collage, and mixed-media practices.

Dain Daller is a weaver and designer. His multi harness weaving focuses on the use of Ikat and Shibori Dye techniques with complex pattern development. Dain Daller's work has been shown both nationally and internationally, including The World Ikat Textile Symposium in 2016 in New Delhi, India and 2017 in Khon Kaen, Thailand. The Warp Zone’s home studio was featured in 2026 by the Hand Weaver Guild of America. He and his partner Pando Speer established their weaving business over a decade ago. 

The multiple design elements found in Dain’s work create the unique complexity and richness found in his textiles. Dain works with only natural fibers, including cotton, silk, wool and linen yarns. Over the past few years he has also been sewing and designing garments out of recycled clothes. 

IG: @Warpzonee

After more than 30 years at the loom,  Donna is still fascinated with the interlacements of warp & weft and color & texture. Donna has raised a rare breed of sheep for many years which is the source of most of her wool yarns. Donna lives surrounded by the Gila Wilderness in southwest New Mexico and this is a constant source of inspiration in her weaving practice.

Donna Foley weaves contemporary southwest tapestries from rare- breed Lincoln Longwool sheep wool. She has the yarn custom spun, and she dyes her yarn using traditional natural dyes like indigo and cochineal, as well as local plants. They are finished with “ findings” of stones, beads , feathers and roots. She also weaves fine wearables like ruanas, shawls, scarves, etc of alpaca, silk and other natural fibers.

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.

Eri Yost is a Japanese fiber artist creating one-of-a-kind bags and accessories from vintage Japanese kimono and obi fabrics. Many of the textiles she uses were cherished by her mother and grandmother, giving each piece a personal history and story. Through her work, Eri give these beautiful traditional fabrics a new life, combining Japanese heritage with modern, functional design. Eri enjoys preserving the beauty and memories held within old textiles while transforming them into something that can be loved and used by a new generation.

Eri creates one-of-a-kind bags, accessories, and wearable pieces. She carefully selects each textile for its unique colors, patterns, and character, then transforms it into a modern, functional design. Her work includes handbags, clutches, small accessories, and garments. Each piece is handmade by Eri, and because she works with vintage textiles and design around the individual fabric, no two pieces are exactly alike.

Wrap yourself in the Spirit of Taos with a uniquely beautiful Gazelle shawl Featuring the photographs of Taos Photo Artist Gail Russell. She has been named a Taos Living Master for her photography and is honored as one of the Remarkable Women of Taos.

“Ive always wanted to be able to wear my photographs... with Gazelle Shawls and scarves, this is now possible!”  Gazelle Shawls and Scarves, and patented SallyGators Leg Warmers, made of Printed Cotton and Velvet.  Why not Wear Art?

With a deep love of nature, she lives perched on the edge of a high mesa in Taos, New Mexico. with her cat Honey Boy, and a garden filled with Peonies.

JB Pena & Ceil Swanson are the owners of Handwoven Originals, and hae been in business for 46 years. They will also be featuring the work of fellow weavers and fiber artists Christine Drumright, and Nancy Paap. 

Since 1976 Handwoven Originals has created unique art to wear, including handwoven apparel for the discerning collectors. At this year’s Fall Fiber Fiesta they will be featuring multi-fiber shawls, wraps, ruanas, jackets, scarves, ponchos, and one of a kind specialty clothing. Collectively these four artists give fascinating and far reaching representation of decades of innovative styles.

Heather sees weaving as an act of preservation, a meditation on time, and an exploration of wearable art. Using the language of warp and weft, Heather builds contemporary textiles from the ground up. Her work uses natural fibers such as merino, alpaca, cotton and silk. Once the cloth is woven, Heather sews it into garments like wraps and ponchos, then embroiders fluid flowers and nature motifs onto the surface. 

Heather’s work weaves tradition with a modern vibe, expressed through a palette pairing quiet neutrals with bursts of color. She invites a relationship between the artwork and the individual. When someone wraps themselves in her garments, they are carrying a story of slow craft and unique expression out into the world.

Heather’s collection features handwoven ponchos, scarves, and wraps embellished with vibrant, hand-embroidered flowers and nature motifs. To complete the look, Heather also hand-knits accessories, including fingerless mitts, blending traditional textile techniques with modern style. 

IG: @sundropmakes
FB: Sundrop Fiber Co.

Jan Haller’s creative journey began in 1978 as an intuitive painter. A few years ago her attention went to her love of hats, and especially animal and fantasy hats. Through the skills of knitting and sewing and while meeting shaping and other creative challenges Jan finds a sense of surprise and delight as her creations emerge from the needlesI make hats and other curious, hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind treasures for the quirky bird in all of us.

Jan’s work is usually a collage of techniques including knitting, sewing, glueing and felting. She loves to use novelty yarns combined with other fibers and yarns to emulate feathers, bark, grass, and other deeply textured fabrics. Her hats include chickens, owls and other birds, rabbits, dogs, bears, and more!

IG: hallerhats

Josie knits because she loves the feel of fiber in her hands. For her, knitting is a simple and satisfying art- yarn, needles and time. Josie’s work is about comfort. She strives to make work that is held, worn and lived in. She chooses natural fibers because they carry something real: the warmth of wool, the softness of cotton, and the texture of the living world.

Josie believes beauty doesn't have to be complicated. It can be as simple as a soft scarf on a cold day, made slowly and with care. Josie’s work includes knit garments and accessories such as fingerless mitts, hats, scarves, shawls, sweaters, cowls and blankets.

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.

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.

Kate’s versatile work in textiles starts with the desire for the materials. Since moving to New Mexico she has expanded from fashion knitwear, to weaving, rug punching, fiber spinning, and abstract crochet.

Kathy is an experienced knitter who was taught how to knit by her mother when she was ten years old.  She put her knitting aside to focus on a career in the corporate world, but picked up the needles again in 2008 when she decided to leave the stress and intensity of the corporate world behind her and moved to Northern New Mexico.  ‘I rediscovered the meditative and relaxing aspects of knitting and really enjoy feeding my creative side, which I generally ignored for most of my working life.”  She owns her own knitting business called Fiber Art Luxuries and lives in Santa Fe.

Kathy is an experienced knitter, and loves to imagine the soft fibers and deep colors of luxurious hand knit accessories warming the hands, heads, necks and shoulders of women (and men) everywhere! The starting point is using the finest yarns available that are ever so soft and irresistible to the touch. Added to that is a playful, creative spirit and sense of style and color to create unique products that are artful and fashionable as well as practical.

Laura Salamy is the experienced, albeit “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. Laura teaches nationally, locally, and on Zoom. Her work can be seen in exhibits, online, in various books, in Rug Hooking Magazine, and in the Association of Traditional Hooking Artists Magazine.

At High on Hooking we do “not so traditional” rug hooking and stitching. That is, the art isn’t necessarily fashioned using only woolen strips or yarn. I prefer to use old textiles (especially old t-shirts and bed sheets!), funky fabrics, and notions like yarns and ribbon. Cutting cloth strips by hand to a fairly broad width gives each hooked mat a bit of a rustic and bulky charm, creating something you can really sink your toes into. They look good on the wall too. Don’t forget to try them on benches and tables.

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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. Long known as the 'Scrap Queen', she considers it a challenge to use up all the little pieces, stray blocks, and upcycled fabrics.  She is always available for custom work.  Some of her pieces are currently available at the EVFAC shop in Espanola.

You will find many quilts by Le Adams at this year’s Fall Fiber Fiesta, including thick and thin, for wall art, and for snuggling. Kid's themes, quilts for your feet, tablerunners, coiled Baskets, modern art, various small zippered bags, cards, and even more!

Liane Brown is a native of Santa Fe, and the owner of Santa Fe Buffalo Designs. Liane has turned her life-long love of spinning fiber and weaving into creatively designed products that are softer than could be imagined.  Her technique employs a special blend of undyed Navajo-Churro sheep’s wool, alpaca wool, wolf hair and buffalo hair. This technique of adding exotic fibers into the wool creates an even stronger yarn product.  

Liane is an active member of the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center and the New Mexico Creative Hands Guild in Santa Fe. At this year’s Fall Fiber Fiesta she will be featuring yarn from the buffalo, wolf, and coyote! Her products will  include un-dyed skeins of yarn, pillows, medicine pouches, coasters, handwarmers and cuffies. She will also have custom products from pet hairs, including dogs and cats. 

Lisa Joyce is a Taos, NM based designer and fiber artist. Her hand-dyed and felted wool hats are both whimsical and highly stylish, as well as being so comfy that you want to wear them all winter. Most can be worn several different ways for different looks or moods! Meanwhile she handspins her ‘tailspun' novelty yarns, directly from sheep fleece, on a Rio Grande Spinning Wheel, then hand-dyes them in a beautiful array of colors.

Lisa’s yarns have won awards, and have even appeared as part of designer-knit creations on New York fashion runways. Check out her beautiful variety of work which includes hand-felted, hand-dyed, sewn and pieced felted wool hats and accessories. She will also have handspun sheep fleece art yarns, scarves, and other accessories pieced, knitted, or woven from handspun yarn.

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IG: @lisajoydesigns

Rockin Q Ranch is located in Ribera, New Mexico. Mari Quillman raises alpacas, Texas Longhorns, and horses at the ranch. Their alpacas are the stars of the ranch, not only for their beautiful fiber, but also because they are such characters. Mari Quillman spins the alpaca fiber and other fibers into yarn and also uses the fiber for wet felting projects and knitting. Mari is the President of the New Mexico Creative Hands Guild (formerly Art Through The Loom). As part of our guild activities, Mari has taken alpacas to outreach and education events at the Southside Library and the Children's Museum where kids and their parents get to pet the alpacas and learn multiple fiber crafts.

After the first shearing of the Rockin Q Ranch alpacas, Mari realized she needed to do something with all of the bags of fiber! Mari purchased a spinning wheel, took one lesson, and then was well on her spinning way! She spins her alpaca’s fiber, as well as other fiber blends to make her beautiful yarn. Mari has recently taken up wet felting and is experimenting with art pieces and making felted bracelets. Mari will also have knitwear and alpaca fleeces available for purchase!

Maria Jonsson Studied textiles at Sigtuna Folk College in Sweden in the mid 1980s. From there she went on to receive a  BFA and MA in Studio Art Fiber/Fabric at Northern Illinois University. In Sweden Mia learned traditional weaving techniques. She later explored and experimented with non-traditional materials in weaving such as metal, wire, or any material that could be woven on a loom.

Mia’s current work is either woven on a loom, knitted or crocheted 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.

Mary Jo Stipe majored in art in college and then pursued a career in the fabric industry. Her multi faceted career in fabric tracked color and fashion trends, marketing and promotional writing, and allowed her to give trend presentations at major fabric expos. Despite her busy work schedule, she always found time to take at least one art- or quilt-related workshop every year. 

Mary Jo loves to explore a variety of subject matter in her work, though she finds that she  always returns to plants, trees and leaves. She interprets these elements through a variety of dye processes including indigo shibori, rust dyeing, screen- and mono-printing, and direct painting on fabric. Her current passion is cyanotype printing, creating layered prints with multiple exposures and various toning media.

Mary Jo makes mixed media textiles including art quilts, soft vessels, pillows, fabric-covered notebooks, tote bags, eyeglass cases, greeting cards, pendants, and other small accessories. Her framed work includes cyanotype prints, gel-plate prints, and stitched textile collages. She creates multiple-exposure cyanotypes, which are used for large votive candleholders and lamps. She also make hand-dyed scarves, and hand-dyed fabrics.

Maryann Kot has worked in 2D art, oil, watercolor, and pencil most of my adult life. After retiring from the corporate world she began to teach drawing,, colored pencil, composition and art history for 15 years. She has always had an interest in fiber creations, and now after many years in a varied art career has the time to explore this desire. 

Maryann Kot now creates personal and decorative items using wool, cotton and sometimes leather. She designs bags, purses, aprons, and personal travel and storage items. You will be able to pursue her beautiful sew goods at this year's Fall Fiber Fiesta, including bags, purses, aprons, pin cushions and more! 

Merce Mitchell is a yarn dyer, hand spinner and felter who lives off grid in the mountains of Northern NM.  The desert colorways and sacred geometry inspire her yarn colorways and names. She loves to create abstract artwork in felt and enjoys just about all of the fiber world of dyeing, sewing, weaving and art creation.

Merce hand-spins her yarn from custom blended batts. She will have a variety of her hand dyed yarns from Lace to Worsted weight, as well as roving and blended batts available at Fall Fiber Fiesta. Merce creates knit kits of yarns and patterns which provide support for all of her yarns and samples. Merce will also have a selection of Indigo dyed yarns and cottons.

Michele Mazur is a Santa Fe-based textile artist and the maker behind Mazur Made. Michele comes from a long line of women who have worked with fiber and textiles. Growing up around this a rich tradition inspired her love of making, particularly machine knitting. Michele explores different techniques, including sewing, knitting, crochet, and embroidery. Mazur Made brings together all of these skills rather than focusing on a single medium. 

Michele’s work includes handmade sun hats, bags and accessories, and machine-knit garments. I combine bold prints, unexpected color combinations, and contrasting textures to create pieces that are practical but still make a statement. Michele’s sewn pieces are constructed individually, often with details like quilting, satin linings and ties, and contrasting fabrics. Her knitwear is created on a knitting machine and finished by hand. Because she works in small quantities choosing all her materials individually, her pieces are all one of a kind.

Natasha Nargis has been weaving for over 50 years. She uses both the ikat and shibori techniques to dye her unique, handwoven pieces. She works with only natural fibers, including linen, silk, cotton, merino, alpaca and cashmere wool. She has been living and working in Santa Fe since the 70’s. 

The fiber that Natasha selects and uses in her work are truly stunning. You can find her beautiful dyed, woven, and sewn scarves and garments at this year’s Fall Fiber Fiesta. 

FB: @natashanargis

Pamela Whitlock has been weaving since 1969. She 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 is a self-taught weaver. She focuses on the multi-harness weaving techniques called shadow weave and Rep Weave. She uses bamboo yarn for its durability, its crisp visual effect, and its silky-soft hand.

IG: @sosumiweaving

Pando Speer has been weaving non-stop since she took her first weaving class at the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center in 2013. She has become a full time weaver and textile designer. She and her partner Dain Daller created the weaving The Warp Zone in 2014. The work of the Warp Zone has been shown both nationally and internationally, including The World Ikat Textile Symposium in 2016 in New Delhi, India and 2017 in Khon Kaen, Thailand.

The weaving of The Warp Zone incorporates multiple techniques, including ikat, shibori, and multi-harness loom controlled patterns. She works only with undyed natural fibers including silk, cotton and alpaca wool. All her yarn is hand-dyed with both natural and/or synthetic dyes. The multiple design elements found in her work create a uniquely complex richness found only in Warp Zone textiles. She works in her handmade, off grid earthship home and studio in Abiquiu, New Mexico.

IG: @warpzonee

Perla Kopeloff has been a fiber artist for three decades. Her pieces are a reflection of the abstraction and inspiration she gets from her surroundings in southern Colorado. The sky and the desert land are my constant visual practice. 

Perla uses merino wool and silk to create unique wearables and accessories like shawls , gloves, vests and ponchos. She uses the Nuno Felting technique to create one of a kind work. She is currently working on felted landscapes, felted wearables, and framed collages with handmade paper and found objects.

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Rae Dollard is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico and originally from San Antonio, Texas. Growing up surrounded by vibrant colors and rich textures, Rae's artistic  journey was heavily influenced by a father who was both an artist and musician, instilling a deep passion for creativity and a commitment to excellence. Weaving allows Rae to express her joy in color and texture and finds many ways to use this in her work in both wearable and wall art. This continual quest for learning and growth in artistic expression is a hallmark of Rae's work, reflecting a vibrant blend of cultural influences and personal history.

Rae will be featuring wearable art, as well as home decor. She uses a variety of fibers including cotton, silk, bamboo, wool, rayon, and leather with many showcasing other artisan hand dyed or spun yarns which are often recycled. Rae creates handwoven fabric in which each piece is itself a piece of art. At this year’s Fall Fiber Fiesta Rae will also have woven wall art often with Rae’s metal work, tops, shawls, scarves and jackets.

Shari Hirst is an artistic knitter. She writes patterns, designs sweaters and hats, and teaches knitting. She works with wolf fur, and does occasional commission work as well. Shari enjoys challenges, and has tried knitting with many different materials.

Currently Shari is making and selling wolf fur hats, fur that she received from a couple of shelters and will be selling at this year’s Fall Fiber Fiesta. Shari has also tried a new style of hat and has written a pattern for a scarf or a cowl that can be made with any yarn chosen by the knitter.  

Suzie Fowler-Tutt is a multidisciplinary fiber artist focusing on handwoven home decor, and ready to wear textiles. Suzie's work varies widely 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 tote bags and clothing, incorporating hand painted fabric and upcycleded remnants in her work.

At this year’s Fall Fiber Fiesta you will find her bright, inspired weavings and designs. She will have woven pieces including coasters, scarves, shawls, serapes, and pillows. She will also have a variety of hand sewn tote bags and clothing. 

Tina StJohn is an American artist based in New Mexico. Her work centers on repair, reuse, and the evolving meaning of living art. Through remaking, sewing, and visible repair, she transforms worn materials into renewed creative pieces. This focus builds awareness around sustainability, care, and artistic revival. Her practice is part of a growing living art project dedicated to turning repair into beauty, purpose, and movement. StJohn draws on the rich traditions of handcraft and renewal, treating each repaired object as a collaboration between past and present. Her approach invites viewers to reconsider what is valued, what is discarded, and how everyday mending can become a quiet, radical act of preservation and creation.

Tina’s work begins at thrift stores, where she searches for denim and high-quality men's button-down shirts. She then brings them home, repairs them by hand, and paints directly onto the fabric, and adds visible mending, transforming each piece into a one-of-a-kind work of art. Every stitch and brushstroke becomes a statement about value: what we keep, what we discard, and how care can become art. This practice is part of a living art awareness project — a movement toward sustainability, beauty in imperfection, and the radical idea that mending is making.

IG: houseof.enchantment 

Vanessa Harris is a weaver and textile artist working out of their home in Abiquiu, NM. They try to expand on traditional weaving imagery- making patterns that clash, overlap, and intertwine. This practice is inspired by a love of the sci-fi and fantasy world, and an optimistic belief in other dimensions and their means of communication. Vanessa tries to generally do less harm in the world, and hopes that art is a way to make connections with people that focus on what we have in common.

Vanessa weaves tapestries in the Rio Grande tradition with contemporary original designs, and multi-harness scarves and fabric. These weavings are created with elaborate designs and bright, bold colors. Vanessa also makes jewelry, pillows and bags out of their weavings, and has started to play around with covering their fabrics in resin for a new and inventive jewelry technique.

Etsy: @twill_symbi0nt

Zandra is a native of New Mexico, raised in the high mountains of Los Alamos.  The colours of the high mountains, the river, and the ever changing sky resonate through the fibers in her work. She was taught to weave by her mother at a very early age, mainly in order to keep her quiet and busy. Nowadays, her looms is anything but quiet, but always busy. Weaving provides a peace of mind and gratitude to our keeper for the time allowed to continue creating.

Zandra makes textiles for every day use. Her love for weaving began as a teenager when she was a docent at The Santa Fe Opera. Zandra knew then that the only chance of owning a shawl like the ones the other docents wore was to make it herself. She will have shawls like these for sale at this year’s Fall Fiber Fiesta. Zandra will also have rugs of all sizes, as well as towels and table runners for you to peruse!