MCFA Teachers

Several members of MCFA teach and lecture around the country and even the world. Contact teachers directly if you are interested in inviting them to your guild, shop, or event.

Lisa Binkley

Lisa Binkley has had a life-long love of stitching using beautiful fabrics, thread, and beads. She has been exploring these materials since childhood and creating award-winning art quilts and embroideries since 2000. Lisa's creations are known for their ornate, meticulously-crafted designs in thread and beads. In addition to sharing her art quilts and embroideries in exhibitions nationwide and in publications such as Quilting Arts magazine and the Fiber Arts Design Book, Lisa also teaches and lectures about the many aspects of bead embroidery. Contact Lisa at lbinkley at tds.net or view Lisa's artwork and educational offerings at www.lisabinkley.com.

Wendy Butler Berns

Wendy ButlerBerns is a quilt artist, teacher, and lecturer who found her passion for quilting in 1993. Since 1997, she has taught and lectured about the art of quilting, regionally and nationally. Her work appears regularly in juried shows and galleries as well as in private collections across the country. She has also authored numerous articles for magazine publications. As a teacher and lecturer, the words enthusiatic, encouraging, entertaining and knowledgeable describe Wendy well. Common threads found in her work and classes are strong use of color, twisting the traditional to focus on original design, an unabashed free motion quilting style, and the versatility to work with a wide range of quilting techniques and student abilities. For a glimpse of her work and and a listing of her workshops, go to www.wendybutlerberns.com. Contact Wendy at Wbbquilter at aol.com.

Amy Climer

Amy Climer is an art quilter and teaches workshops on creativity, fabric dyeing, abstract quilts and more. She encourages students to leave their inner critics behind and have fun while creating. Her students describe her as organized, enthusiastic, and creative. Classes can be adapted from 3 hours to 3 days depending on techniques and content. Visit www.amyclimer.com or contact Amy at aeclimer at yahoo.com for more information.

Sue Gilgen

Available for speaking engagements

Email her at sue at gilgenart.com or visit her website at www.gilgenart.com.

Lois Jarvis

Lois Jarvis has a BFA in Textile Design and a BS ED from Northern Illinois University plus 32 years experience as a fiber artist working mostly in quilting. These qualify her to teach you any fiber or quilting technique you need to learn. She has taught quilting classes in the Madison area for years and now that the kids are gone can travel to you. Her lectures always include “The Ground Zero Quilt”, “Tales from the UFO Club” and “Quilts through the Years”. To inquire about current class offerings please visit loisjarvisquilts.com.

Pat Kroth

Pat Kroth's work has been included in many group and solo exhibits including Quilt National '01. She is continually intrigued with surface design techniques to create interesting texture. As a parent of four children, the texture of my own life can be complex. This leads to some challenging work situations as well as some surprising solutions. In her lecture, Texture Tango, Pat shares her inspirations, influences and love of texture through slides, fiber artwork, music and a bit of story telling. For more detailed information on her programs and workshops contact krothp at juno.com Visit her website at: www.krothfiberart.com.

Deb Menz

Deb is a textile artist who is the author of Color Works – a Crafters Guide to Color and Color in Spinning both published by Interweave Press. Her main interests include dyeing and the use of color using many mediums - spinning, weaving, knitting, embroidery, surface design, bead work and hand made paper. She has been teaching workshops and giving lectures across the country and Canada for the past 15 years. The topics she covers are - Color theory for all fiber artists, Dyeing (lanaset and fiber reactive dyes) - both immersion and painting on fibers and fabrics, designing handspun multi-colored yarns using drum carders or hackles, and plying multicolored yarns for a design element. The topics can be from a one and a half hour lecture, 1 day, 3 day or 5 day workshop. For more information contact Deb Menz at dmcolor at jvlnet.com.

Jana Mirs

Jana Mirs has been indulging her love of fiber since childhood, when she braided her horses' tails, cut and styled the neighbor children's hair, and practiced Girl Scout knots. During her first career--as an engineering drafter--she knit, crocheted, embroidered, and hooked rugs in her free time. After that, she learned to spin yarn, dye wool and cotton, and quilt. As a mid-life undergraduate in Art Therapy at Northern Illinois University, she studied weaving, surface design, art, and psychology. Later, Jana received her MFA in Fiber/Fabrics from Northern Illinois University, by publishing a thesis that integrated creativity, storytelling, traditional women's work, and video. Her work has been shown in numerous juried shows and galleries, as well as many public and private collections. Jana teaches quilting and dyeing at her home studio, nestled amid the beautiful rolling hills of southwestern Wisconsin. Her current goal is to add dye plants to her perennial garden. Contact her at janamirs at mhtc.net.

Liz Primozic

Teaches at the Shake Rag Alley Arts Center in Mineral Point, WI.

You can email her at lizzieoz at merr.com

Karen Saunders

Available for speaking engagements

Email her at karen.art at charter.net

Renée Shedivy

Renée Shedivy is a Wisconsin fabric artist, quilter, teacher and lecturer. Her passion is free-motion quilting which she has been teaching regularly since 1999 at quilt shops and annual statewide sewing expositions. Eight of her quilts are a permanent collection at the George Bartell Theatre and she’s been featured in Wisconsin Public Television's "Wisconsin Quilts 2001" video. For more information visit her website at www.reneeshedivy.com or contact her by e-mail at rshedivy at charter.net.

Sandy Wright

Sandy Wright lives and teaches machine sewing, quilting and embellishment in Madison, Wisconsin. Sandy’s areas of expertise are machine appliqué; drawing with thread on the sewing machine; and working with textures and fabric manipulation. Her garments and quilts are non-traditional and often whimsical. Her teaching goal is to share her love of machine sewing with others. So it is important to her that her classes are relaxed and fun. For more information visit her website: www.threaddreams.com or email her at wrighax at charter.net.

Joan Zieger

available for speaking engagements

Email her at joan at joanzieger.com or visit her website at joanzieger.com