About Workshops

Redwing Studio offers small group, 1-day and 2-day workshops on site in these fiber/fabric processes:
  • papermaking 
  • screen printing 
  • arashi & shibori resist
  • indigo dyeing
  • spinning & felting w/wool
  • drawing & design
  • weaving

Art Education Workshops can be designed for your setting & population in: 
  • creativity for all learners
  • multicultural arts curriculum
  • integrating visual & verbal literacy 

Experience

  • Dade County, FL: Jr & Sr High School art teacher
  • Caldwell Community College, Boone, NC:  instruction in drawing, painting & weaving  w/adults & elderly​
  • ​Appalachian State University, Boone, NC:  adjunct faculty,  various art courses 
  • Caldwell County Schools, Lenoir, NC:  pre-K through grade 5 art teacher 

Credentials

  • Certification, Early & Middle Childhood, Art, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
  • M.F.A., studio fiber, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
  • B.S. & M.A., art education, Appalachian  State University, Boone, NC
  • various workshops, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

Recent Exhibitions

  • June 3-Aug 21, 2016
525,600 MINS, Waterworks Gallery, Salisbury, NC
  • July 28-Aug 2, 2016
Artist-in-Residence, Edgewood Cottage, Blowing Rock, NC
  • Feb-Apr, 2017
​​A Thousand Steps, A Thousand Stitches: Figurative Quilts by Susan Sharpe, Turchin Center, ASU, Boone, NC