Lu Peters is an art quilter, wearable artist, and mixed-media fiber artist whose work has been exhibited in galleries and juried local and national shows and published in several art quilting publications. She has curated and juried fiber art and mixed media art shows in Dallas, Keller, Tyler, and Austin, Texas.

Lu is passionate about encouraging the global community of fiber artists through communication and education and maintains a comprehensive website, lupeters.com, an extensive resource site for fiber artists. Additionally, she is a former president of DAFA and a member of the Quilter’s Guild of Dallas and the American Sewing Guild of Plano.

Cyndi is a mixed-media art quilter who incorporates her hand dyed and painted fabrics into her original fiber designs, and also pursues oil, acrylic, and encaustic painting. As an invited artist in the Plano Art Association CONTEXTURE: Fiber and Fabric invitational fiber show in 2015, she discovered DAFA and is now our vice-president and acting president.

She also brings her administrative and leadership experience to our Board of Directors as a lawyer who specializes in business/corporate law, estate planning, probate and guardianship and as an active volunteer in the Prestonwood Rotary Club, and Quilters Guild of Dallas.

Cyndi loves to travel, enjoys the outdoors, and collecting fiber art treasures!

April Soncrant is a mixed media fiber artist who incorporates textiles, ephemera, and embellishments in her projects. She started her artistic career with acrylic painting.

Her abstract acrylics were featured in a two-woman show. Her paintings hang in private, local area businesses. Her fiber work is in private collections and has been included in juried shows.

Her current textile paintings are a Garden Series, using re-purposed silk to applique fantasy floral scenes onto hand-dyed backgrounds, then embellishing them with sequins, beads, and other sew-ons.

April served on the board of directors for The Visual Arts Guild of Frisco and was a representative to the Frisco Association of the Arts. For three years she served as a judge for the annual Frisco art competition, junior and senior high school divisions. She has held a number of offices with the Dallas Area Fiber Artists and is currently the Secretary. 

Carrie Noess is a craftsman and embroiderer who enjoys the rhythmic process of stitching. To relax she enjoys cross stitching monochromatic alphabets. 

Her interest in embroidery grew out of her love of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Inspiration for her original work includes the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements, Charles Rennie Macintosh, William Morris, May Morris, Water Crane, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Carrie holds a Certificate in Hand Embroidery from the Royal School of Needlework, and she is currently studying (stitching) historic samplers and embroidered caskets.

She embroiders: blackwork, shaded blackwork, whitework: pulled thread, drawn thread, hardanger, broider anglaise, richelieu and trailing stitches, needlepoint, goldwork, Jacobean crewelwork, surface embroidery, needlelace, stumpwork, silk shading, tapestry shading, and samplers (cross stitch and specialty stitches).

Lila is a self-made crafter. She has never seen a craft she didn’t want to try. She has worked with embroidery and cross-stitching since she was a little girl. She enjoys sewing and made a lot of her daughters’ clothes when they were little.

Recently Lila has discovered the art of card making. Lila made felted Calla Lilies for a wedding along with other fun items. She has shared the love of crafting with the Girl Scout troops and day camps she led over 20 years. Lila was the Activity Coordinator for Newcomer Friends of Greater Plano in 2015. She also led a group called Handmade By Me from 2016 to 2018.

Kathi is a mixed-media fiber artist who enjoys creating art quilts based on digital manipulation of her photography. She is an artist member of SAQA and has contributed several works to their trunk shows and traveling exhibitions. Her work has also been featured in Quilting Arts and Cloth Paper Scissors magazines.

Prior to moving to Texas in 2017, Kathi lived in Westchester County, New York, where she was a member of Fiber Art Northeast and participated in numerous group exhibitions. Thrilled to have found a new creative home with DAFA, Kathi brings ten years of experience developing and directing visual arts programs including launching Art at Concordia and serving as the Director of OSilas Gallery at Concordia College in Bronxville, New York.

The daughter of a commercial and fine artist, Carol has been working in and learning art forms for a half century. She studied art at several universities and taught art classes in New Mexico for 12 years before retiring to Texas in 2005.

Carol paints in oils and pastels and recently has begun learning watercolor techniques. She has worked in fiber art since her teen years learning to sew. She made clothing and quilts but never as art until joining Dallas Area Fiber Artists. When she first moved to Texas, she demonstrated New England style rug hooking at Chestnut Square Village in McKinney. Now her interest in “all things fiber” ranges from batik, eco dyeing, soft sculpture animals, journaling, collage with mixed media, to the exploration of unspun wool roving. She uses the roving to create needle-felted paintings. She constructs her own looms to weave wall hangings and uses a Navajo drop spindle to create and spin specialty yarns for them.

She has been a member of art organizations in three states and exhibited her work in art shows and galleries in Ohio and New Mexico. Carol has won awards for her paintings in The Belen, NM Art League, The Art Club of McKinney, TX and several from the Dallas Area Fiber Artists’ exhibits.

"Slow down! Stop the car!"

These are often the words of Andie Comini as she keeps her eyes peeled for any item on the curb she might be able to incorporate into an art piece.

Andie's journey to becoming a mixed media fiber artist began with stained glass and mosaic work. Her love of color and texture soon had her combining these elements with paper, fabric, metal, plastic, and foam along with found objects. Her art studio is filled with all kinds of materials just waiting to be brought together in a piquant or poignant piece. Her goal is to incorporate items into something that will spark people’s imagination and produce a smile!

Andie, an active member of the Dallas Area Fiber Artists and both the Dallas and Bonham Creative Arts Centers, continues to be an enthusiastic participant in numerous art and gallery shows.