The 2015 Fiber Arts Festival at the Grant County Veterans Memorial Business and Conference Center continues today, Saturday, July 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Creative fiber artists from all over the region are in town attending workshops, displaying their wares and showing off their colorful, intricate work done all with fibers.
Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
Abby Osborne of Las Cruces, right, and Pilar Gonzalez de Killough discuss quilting.
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
Marilyn McCracken mans the festival table.
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
Prairie Small concentrates on her felting.
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
One of many contemporary quilts inspired by flower and vegetable see packets. This one is by Holly Ailman, New Mexico Studio Arts Quilt Associates (SAQA) member.
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
Judith Roderick and Mary Daniels talk about the quilts.
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
Fiber Artists of Southern Arizona also had a display.
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
An Adobe Arts Guild member produced this mission churches artwork.
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
A display of colorful yarn for sale.
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
Marie Sheppard, a Din+? Master Weaver at work.
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
Some of Sheppard's work.
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
More colorful skeins of yarn
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
Vicki Moore of Mogollon with one of her creative pine needle baskets
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
A Moore pine needle sculpture
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
One of the workshops held at the festival. Linda Zapotec paints as instructor Blythe Whiteley talks to another participant.
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
Dora Klein displays a finished piece.
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
4-Hers Tayler Lamb and Sinea Runnels provide food as a fundraiser.
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
Susan Szajer, formerly of Silver City, now living in Santa Fe, stands by her Crystal Fountain Clematis.
Fiber Arts Festival 2015
Suzi Calhoun knits at the Fiber Arts Festival
