Nadine Flagel has engaged with reused text(ile)s in literature and textile art throughout her life. Early rugs reflect Art Nouveau influence and a commitment to sustainability.

Carol James has been playing with strings for a long time; she learned to embroider and to crochet before she entered kindergarten. Since the 1980s she has been exploring a wide, flat, braiding technique known in North America as fingerweaving.

Jennifer creates abstract paintings using collaged hand-painted and printed fabrics and papers. Layering – of colours, of patterns and textures, of fibres and stitches, of references gleaned from nature and human culture – this is at the core of her art practice. She is particularly interested in intersections, disruptions and reversals where positive and negative space, natural and man-made patterns, order and randomness have an opportunity to coexist and interact.

Catherine is a painter, writer, teacher and quilt-maker. Inspired by legends, stories and words in general her work is developed through drawing, painting and mixed media in sketchbooks.

So much of life is a dance of artistic expression and I’m loving exploring it in the art of Pine needle basketry. I first learned this art at the foot of Hattie Olsen at the Fiber Arts Studio. Her gentle spirit is still touching me as I teach this beautiful art form to others.

As an interdisciplinary artist I use the artistic process to explore the ways in which generalizations are prioritized as ways of knowing about the world. Specifically, I am intrigued by our persistent tendencies to make assumptions about each other’s life situations.

Sheleigh McCulloch was born and raised in the West Kootenays in British Columbia. She has been practicing fibre arts for the better part of 14 years, beginning with spinning and crochet, then moving on to knitting, weaving, and felting.

Shannon Weber is a 3D Contemporary Mixed Media Artist and Designer from Oregon, USA. She is known for her wide use of materials from nature, as well as general human cast-offs of all kinds.