2025 In the Know Archives

Here are some of our "In the Know" announcements from 2024.

Meeting Highlights & Show and Tell

Meeting Highlights & Show and Tell 


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July 2025:  Annual Silent Auction and Raffle

July 2025 Program: In Fiber with artists Linda Creagh, Christine Guernsey, and Linda Disosway

Christine Guernsey discussed fiber and fabric weaving techniques.
Linda Disosway presented Wild About Texture.

June 2025 Program:  The Path of the Print with Terri Thoman


Terri Thoman took us on a whirlwind tour through the evolution of printmaking, sharing her passion for the techniques and the stories that make up the incredible history of the print.

Terri Thoman, our presenter and mini-workshop leader.
Melanie Dorsey works on an armadillo print in the mini-workshop.

June 2025 Show and Tell

May 2025 Program: The Welman Project

This month's program was presented by Lauren Watson of the Welman Project, a non-profit that assists educators by providing raw materials and tools to create classroom supplies. Professional staff assist in creatively adapting donated items to fill classrooms not landfills. Educators can also receive professional development credit through the workshops provided by The Welman Project.


In 10 years the Welman Project has made a positive and impressive impact on the arts education community. Their warehouse and workshops are open to educational professionals, in all situations, from all over the nation.


Many thanks to Lauren for introducing us to this important resource!

Lauren Watson introduced us to the mission of the Welman Project.
Community Impact of the Welman Project.
Community Impact of the Welman Project.

April 2025: Leo Ransom Program & Workshop


We were delighted to welcome back Leo Ransom, who presented April's program and a special mini-workshop called Silhouettes.

Leo Ransom, presenting his Jimi Hendrix quilt.
Leo Ransom and attendees at our April 2025 meeting.

April 2025: Member Show and Tell

March 2025:  Marilyn Henrion Program, DAFA @Dallas Quilt Show, and Project 2050 in Phoenix!


In our March program, Smithsonian-featured artist Marilyn Henrion discussed with us her evolution as a fiber artist and mother of four through the wild ’50s and ’60s--in the very heart of a historic period in the New York art and literary scene--up to her continuing creative explorations in Texas as she approaches the age of 93.

DAFA was well-represented, as always, during the annual Quilter's Guild of Dallas show. Our booth (below, left) featured a special memorial exhibit (below, right) in honor of the late Jo Appleton. 


We also had several members who were honored at the show with winning ribbons and special exhibitions:


  • Individual winners:  Deborah Boschert, Tonya Littman, Jackie Nixon-Fulton, and Carolyn Skei.

  • Collaboration winners:  The group piece Remembering the Land, created by seven (7) DAFA members who are also members of the North Tx SAQA group: Ava Nell Harris, Jonquele Jones, Jackie Nixon-Fulton, Carolyn Skei, Nancy Tully, Renee Turner, and Cyndi Watson.

  • Featured Quilt Artist:  Deborah Boschert was the featured quilt artist, a great honor which highlighted her many works in a large exhibit.

Kathi Jahnke visited the Toward 2050 exhibition, held at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden, where her climate flags (and those of other DAFA members) are on display through June 1, 2025.

February 2025: Mixed-Media Madness workshops


Our members had a blast at our annual Mixed-Media Madness workshop program, which featured our three superstars Carol Regan, Lucy Miron, and Carol Kovacs.

February 2025 Member Show & Tell

Members' Publications & Awards (2025)

This summer, members of Dallas Area Fiber Artists (DAFA) were honored with many awards at the 2025 Texas State Fair.  Congratulations to Martha Wasserman, Margaret Montgomery, and Jami Roux!

The Handweavers Guild of America (HGA) recently bestowed its 2025 Edith Whiteman Memorial Award to Christine Miller for her 2025 artwork Crushed, shown here.

 

The Edith Whiteman Memorial Award is given in recognition of not only the highest caliber of craftmanship and technical ability but also intimacy of expression, design, and visual excitement.

Deborah Boschert was recently honored by the Quilters Guild of Dallas, which named her a featured artist for the 2025 Dallas Quilt Show.  For this special exhibit, she was asked to select 26 of her art quilt collages, created between 2012 and 2023. Together, they represent the evolution of her style—layering fabric, paint, and stitch with personal symbols and bold, contemporary compositions. 


Click here to read more about the exhibition, see additional photos, and experience a short video walkthrough.


Deborah will be serving as juror for the Dallas Area Fiber Artists' annual show this July.

Jackie Nixon-Fulton's art quilt Remembrance will be featured in the Spring issue of  Fiber Art Now  magazine. This fused fabric collage uses a wide array of techniques, including the application of thickened dyes, silkscreens, scraping, commercial stencils, and rubbings. The silkscreen is “painted” with soy wax to create a cluster of poppies, and acrylic paint was used for highlights and for the creation of new fabric with stencils.


Jackie has been working on art quilts relating to her personal experiences with the recent fires in New Mexico, where she owns a home.


Poppies, known to many as a symbol of remembrance of World War I, have special significance in the American West as well. The poppy is the official state flower of New Mexico, and one Western-native species is prized for being unusually fire-resistant, with seeds remaining dormant in the soil bank for decades only to spring forth in the destructive aftermath of wildfires.

Members' Exhibitions, Events and Sales (2025)

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