2025 In the Know Archives
Here are some of our "In the Know" announcements from 2024.
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.
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)
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)
List of Services
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Contemporary Tapestry
Exhibition: Apr 11 - Oct 12 2025
161 Glass Street
Dallas, Texas 75207
(Free on-site parking)
You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry is a celebration of tapestry and its practitioners in the 21st century, offering a consideration of the strategies by which contemporary artists interrogate tactility and image in the age-old medium of tapestry in a current context.
Featuring works by thirty artists and designers, and organized by guest curator Su Wu, the exhibition depends, like the works that compel it, on an engagement with interstices specific to tapestry – between art and craft, the medium and the matter, and devotion and its technological mediation.
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Circular Weaving Project
Thursday, April 17, 5-8pm
Plano Haggard Library
2501 Coit Road
Plano, Texas 75075
DAFA member Beth Morgan will be presenting a circular weaving project, held at Plano's Haggard Library during the opening evening of the Library Art Experience. A special exhibit, held in celebration of the Plano Public Library's 60th anniversary, will run through Saturday.
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Spring Art Walk
Sat, March 22, and Sun, March 23
12 to 5pm each day
Goldmark Cultural Center
14001 Goldmark Drive
Dallas TX 75240
Free parking and admission
Meet the Goldmark artists, tour their art studios and workspaces, and enrich yourself by experiencing their original artwork!
Open studios, art activities, and art exhibitions will be spread across all floors of the Cultural Center’s two buildings, so there will be plenty to see and do for visitors of all ages.
List of Services
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A Needle Art Love Story
Party & Sale: Thursday, March 6
Exhibition/Classes: March 7 - 9
Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House
1110 Penn Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
See remarkable works of needlepoint, cross stitch, and hand embroidery--sourced from private collections--at A Needle Art Love Story, Chapter XI. Held at the historic Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House, this event celebrates the artistry and passion of stitchers.
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Temari Ball Workshop
Sat, Feb 15, & Sun, Feb 16
(10am - 5pm each day)
Artsortment Studio
3410 Midcourt Road
Carrollton, TX, 75006
Temari is a centuries-old traditional Japanese technique of embroidery, usually done in ball form.
In this workshop, Cate Buchanan will introduce different traditional designs that can be created in this fascinating craft. Participants will be able to create two different temari during the workshop from pre-wrapped mari. Participants will also learn about making and preparing mari for future projects from different materials such as styrofoam, dryer lint and rice hulls.
Cate Buchanan teaches this workshop on 2/22 & 2/23/25 from 10-5 each day.
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214 Day: Show Love for Dallas
Contribute to quilt: Until Jan 31
Event: Friday, Feb 14, at 12 noon
City Hall Plaza
1500 Marilla Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
Celebrate Dallas Together!Celebrate the vibrant arts and culture of Dallas with the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture at the inaugural 214 Day: Show Love for Dallas! This special event is all about showcasing the rich cultural spirit of the city through creativity, community, and connection. Join us for an unforgettable day of light bites, entertainment, and interactive artistic experiences.
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Felted Vessel Workshop
Sunday, February 2 (10am-5pm)
Fiber Studio
3410 Midcourt Road
Carrollton, TX, 75006
Join us for this amazing workshop with Martha Myre and our own Christine Miller -- creating a felted vessel in one day! Students will create a beautiful vessel utilizing merino wool and rayon viscose as a colored design element. The bowl will be completed in a day, but will be wet and still “forming” - students will take their project home to complete the drying process. Students can embellish their vessels with a variety of beads, buttons, or fiber that they may have after the drying process has been completed.
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Explore Fiber workshops
6-week series on Tuesday evenings, from Jan 14 to Feb 18, 2025
Fiber Studio
3410 Midcourt Road
Carrollton, TX, 75006
Christine Miller and Martha Myre are teaching the Explore Fiber six-week class, designed to introduce students to a variety of fiber techniques and processes.
Classes include:
- Create Paper Cloth for book covers or as a unique art material for collages and other art projects
- Construct a felt book and use it to learn Embroidery
- Weave a small Radial Weaving on an embroidery hoop
- Use plant materials to create Eco Printed notecards
- Enjoy the magical process of Needle Felting and create a landscape
- Discover the process of Coiling through the creation of a basket or vessel
Each class is offered on a Tuesday evening from 6:00 - 9:00 in the upstairs fiber studio at the Craft Guild.