Susan Abbott
I am a painter and poet who has recently migrated into fiber arts. This hand sewn and hand painted is titled “Surround Yourself in Golden Light” —a poem of a title with motifs (stars, hearts, spiral, rainbow, Joshua Tree landscape) often used in my paintings. Also the climate of banned words and books in which we find ourselves currently inspired me to sneak a loaded word into the tree branches. Do you see it?
@smtabbott on Instagram
Etsy: montanakyddstitchery
IG: @montanakydd
Susan Adams
My work centers around transforming textile remnants and vintage fabrics into unique, handcrafted pieces. With a focus on sustainability and traditional techniques, I create items that honor both craft and the environment. My creations span denim patches, Japanese rice bags (Komebukuro), pouches, mini landscape brooches, and wearable art such as cordage bracelets, necklaces, bangles, and cuffs. Each piece reflects my commitment to artisanal quality and my passion for storytelling through texture, color, and form.
Piper Cort
As a child I dreamed of being a painter or a fashion designer.
In the mid eighties I began making fairies with my daughters. As I was painting their wings and fashioning their hats,shoes and outfits I realized I was living the dream. So my advice is to dream big but not forget the small ways you can make your dreams come true.
The fairies are on hiatus until my hands have the precision one needs for fashioning fairies. In the meantime I am enjoying crocheting (actually good hand therapy )and sewing my freak flags.
Julianne Elliott
Fabric, felt, and embroidery floss are my favorite media. I love to applique, reverse applique, embroider, embellish, make pillows, and redesign chairs.
sitatyourperilchairs.com
Etsy shop: sitatyourperilchairs.
IG: littlegraytuft
Mary Hall
Mary creates whimsical weavings incorporating color theory so each piece enhances the energy/mood of the location it’s placed. The weavings are to be not only observed but felt.
@joshuatreefiberstudio on instagram
Brigid Jean Howse
With BOUGHS, a new collection of wood and yarn hanging sculptures, my intent was to express the spirit of each found wood piece. We create ourselves from what nature gives us; we make ourselves in the image of our mind's eye.
hairbyhowse.com/art/boughs.
IG: @hairbyhowse
Ellie Greenwood Kordas
When I was a child and I misbehaved I was given a choice. I could kneel on the cement floor for an hour or I could sit in the rocking chair and knit. By the time I was 10 years old, I had more than 50 pairs of slippers. Where most people have nerves and blood vessels, I have yarn.
Meilani MacDonald
GoddessWhispers aka Meilani is a local artist and crafter who enjoys creating desert plants with crochet hooks, yarn, rocks and beads. You can find more of these little treasures for sale at the CA Welcome Center in Yucca Valley. Visitors love to take these little pieces of the desert home with them! If you'd like to watch Meilani crafting her flowering cactus and even follow along, subscribe to her Twitch channel at Twitch.tv/GoddessWhispers, where she livestreams her crochet on Sundays and Wednesdays at 8:30am PST. Or bring your own project to work on to Meilani's open Arts and Crafts sessions at the Yucca Valley Community Center on Thursdays from 10am -12:30pm ($3 fee).
Twitch.tv/GoddessWhispers
Yolie Odom
I’m a fiber artist working/playing with all forms of fiber. It started with making clothes for my Barbie. I’m now spinning my own yarn and weaving. If I had room for raising alpaca, that would be next. No thread escapes my gaze.
@bobe_rias on Instagram boberias.bigcartel.com
Kim Osgood
I work with natural fibers and threads, using various embroidery techniques to bring to life intricate motifs inspired by nature and animals. Each piece is crafted with care, blending traditional and contemporary styles to celebrate the organic beauty found in the world around us.
​Etsy: OsgoodArtShop
Jeffery Pinkston
Jeffery works with a variety of methods, from weaving to writing, and prefers to use discarded or secondhand materials. Their work often takes shape along dichotomies: hard vs soft, synthetic and natural, joy and pain. They tap into their history as a factory worker from a city in the Midwest, and juxtapose it with their current life, living with chronic illness in the semi-rural desert. They are working on re-integrating their past with their present by integrating different materials, and hope that their work can engender a kind of reconciliation that they think the world could use a little more of.
Melinda Rasch
I am a rag and bone artist. Using an array of mixed media techniques, I form a new story from natural elements and discarded items which have been left behind. I am primarily focused on found-object sculptures and book-making using life’s leftovers. I look beyond the expected use of everyday, and usually discarded items, transforming them into a new concept. The world contains a wealth of creative materials for intersection into the art world in non-traditional ways. Incorporating these elements into my art, I leave the expected narrative behind in favor of a new visual narrative.
@fiberverse.com
Cindy Rinne
Cindy Rinne is an ecofeminist artist creating mixed-media fiber works. These collages layer fabrics from around the world to tell stories. Cindy works in collaboration with the materials. She gives nature a voice. Her mixed-media fiber art works create myths for the lineage of women who lived the stories digging deep into a myriad of cultures. A connective process that creates a whole - drawing the viewer into intimacy, mystery. Time is split to reveal the secrets - the sacredness of the soul. Each artwork consists of improvisational aspects. The stitch pierces paper and textiles; also, in the form of embroidery creates another visual language. Fabric may be added contrasting hard and soft. Brush and pen connect to paper or fabric. Layers reveal destruction, change, and rebirth.
Susan Simpson
Susan is a 4th generation descendant of homesteaders in the area. An accomplished quilter and teacher, throughout her life she has worked to keep fiber and textile practices alive. The resourcefulness of the desert is embodied in the way she recycles scraps into useful vessels.
Cindy Weinstein
Making art is a demanding and risky practice. Here is a vision – can I make something that will allow others to see that vision? Can I make something that will inspire others to experience their world in a new way? Can I make something that will take the person on a journey of their own?
In my creations I am fascinated with contrasts and cross-medium similarities. Spinning is a form of meditation. Weaving is a musical composition. Crochet and knitting are looping. Every technique can be utilized with every other technique. Silk combines with stone. Soft cotton becomes the often forbidding cactus. Through a wide range of fiber techniques combined with found object assemblage my artistic world expands and morphs creating a unique universe.