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SEFAA encourages and celebrates creativity one thread at a time by cultivating a vibrant regional fiber arts community while celebrating, supporting, and perpetuating all textile art forms.
We exist to be your textile resource.
We thrive by empowering you to reach your creative potential.
OUR COMMUNITY
Your latest creation, a work in progress, a favorite class moment, something that inspires you or ...
Linda DeMars
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Linda DeMars
Facilities
Gale Evans
Hello, my name is Gale Evans, and I am currently looking after the wet studio in the SEFAA Center as well as coordinating new classes. I had a yarn and spinning fiber dye business for many years, and I now enjoy putting that wonderful life experience to work for SEFAA. I absolutely LOVE helping such a unique and special organization grow and thrive in our community. Textile Arts in all its many forms should always be fostered and I am proud to be part of it.
Gale Evans
Board
Jolie Fainberg
I grew up doing various art projects instead of watching TV. I started sewing and crocheting in middle school. I taught art (silkscreen and batik) for several summers at a camp in Northern California where I met weaver Laurie Gross. My artistic interests shifted to textile arts, particularly weaving, felting, crochet, quilting, and sewing. I find it hard to pin myself down to a favorite. I have been a member of SEFAA for many years and on the board for the last three.
Jolie Fainberg
Board
Linda Fetter
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Linda Fetter
Membership
Suzi Gough
My textile passion is weaving, although I am easily and often distracted by other fiber techniques. My superpower is the ability to pack an amazing number of things in small spaces (for example, the SEFAA Center storeroom). It’s been my honor to be at the helm of SEFAA since we started – first as Board President and currently as Executive Director. My engineering background helps with the technical end of things, but you make it fun and rewarding!
Suzi Gough
Executive Director
Corrie Habib
I'm a volunteer for SEFAA and enjoy writing for the blog and website. I am interested in spinning, knitting, crochet, and continuous strand weaving. I volunteer for SEFAA because fiber arts are the connection to my female ancestors and because art has helped me through difficult times. I love the community of SEFAA and how everyone is open and uplifting. It's also cool to interact with people who love other types of fiber crafts and see other artistic expressions. I am excited about SEFAA's involvement in growing the vibrant fiber arts maker scene in the region.
Corrie Habib
Blog & Calendar
Diana Quinn
I began volunteering as the liaison between SEFAA and the Atlanta Sewing Guild. Now that I am a SEFAA Board member, I enjoy advancing our programming whether it be in-person, virtual, or hybrid (in-person and virtual). I bring with me both a breadth of technical skills from my years as an IT professional and a love of fiber arts - a perfect combination!
Diana Quinn
Board
Swaantje Sass
I served as a board officer for Crochet Guild of America and found the work to be rewarding. My goal is to help SEFAA thrive despite the serious blow Covid-19 has dealt to groups like ours.
Swaantje Sass
Board
Betsy Stark
Hi, I am Betsy Stark. I make puppets and do some sewing and quilting. I have enjoyed SEFAA’s programs & camaraderie for about three years. The Board needed a Secretary, so I volunteered. I am learning a lot and doing the best I can to listen and take notes at the same time. I am willing to continue this role and be of service, especially during the pandemic, when in-person volunteering is discouraged.
Betsy Stark
Secretary
Katrina Stone
My name is Katrina Stone, and I am the current President of our Board of Directors. I have been in love with fiber since sitting at my mom’s knee while she sewed clothes for our family. I made my first piece of clothing when I was eight years old and, since then, I have explored couture sewing, embroidery, felting, and macrame in depth. All fiber interests me, and I love SEFAA because we embrace fiber in all forms - from the historic to the wildest contemporary interpretation. It is my aspiration for SEFAA that we continue to embrace the old, the new, and everything in-between by providing a variety of accessible exhibitions, programming, and classes to all who are interested.
Katrina Stone
President
Nancy Thompson
I am a lifelong maker of things. Somewhere in my adult life I started identifying as a Knitter with a capital K - probably when my three sons were young and I came to appreciate how easy knitting is to pick up and put down. Even with only minutes to spare in a day, some progress could be made on a project. Now in my retirement, I am having fun exploring other ways to use up my enormous yarn stash -- so far, that has brought me to rigid heddle weaving and rug hooking. I enjoy volunteering with SEFAA and all the opportunities it brings for further fiber adventures.
Nancy thompson
Treasurer
Sarah Thomsen
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Sarah thomsen
Open studios
Kim Wall
I have been fascinated by the making of textiles since my childhood. I’ve dabbled in many crafts throughout my life but the ones I keep going back to are handspinning, knitting, crochet, embroidery (in all its different forms), weaving, and tatting. I also love to read about crafts and have the library to prove it! Although my stash is large enough for several lifetimes, there are always new temptations out there!
Kim Wall
Board
You
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