As an artist, I wish to support the creativity of others. By honoring the work of my friends and colleagues, I not only get to share them with you, but I am able to thank them for their inspiration and role in making the world a better and more creative place to live in.

I hope you will enjoy the diversity of art and resources that will be showcased at The Nature of Things.

Links

Teachers and Mentors
Joy Boutrop www.designforskning.dk
Sharon Costello: www.blacksheepdesigns.com
Tammy L. Deck: www.tlddesigns.com
Mehmet Girgic: www.thefeltmaker.net
Chad Alice Hagen: chad@chadalicehagen.com
May Jacobsen Hvistendahl: www.filtmaker.no
Ewa Kuniczak, Scotland: www.feltheadtotoe.co.uk
Theresa May-O’Brien: www.woodscapeartistry.com
Jeannette Sandler, Scotland: www.sendler.co.uk
Pat Sparks: www.peak.org/~spark/spark.html
Polly Sterling: www.wildturkeyfeltmakers.com
Yoskiko Iwamoto Wada www.yoshikowada.com
Chris White: www.magpiefelt.com

Midwest Felting Symposium, July 2008
Judit Pocs Hungarian Felter

Associations
Chicago Artists' Coalition
70 E. Lake St. Suite 230
Chicago, IL 60601
(312) 781-0040
www.caconline.org

Surface Design Association
www.surfacedesign.org

International Feltmakers’ Association
www.feltmakers.com

Handweaver’s Guild of America
www.weavespindye.org

North American Felters’ Network
www.peak.org

Resources

Memory on Cloth by Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, Kodansha International, 2002

Fundamentals of Feltmaking by Patricia Spark, Shuttle Craft Books, 1989

The Art of Feltmaking by Anne Einset Vickrey, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1997

New Directions for Felt an Ancient Craft by Gunila Paetau Sjoberg as translated by Pat Spark, Interweave Press, Loveland, Co, 1996

North American Felters Network Newsletter, Quarterly published by Pat Spark, 1-541-926-1095

Echoes, The Journal of the International Feltmakers Association, quarterly, published in England

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