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Forms | Agenda | Course Selections | Faculty | Course Descriptions Marie-Therese Baker
Director, Callaway Gardens School of Needle Arts
Marie-Therese Baker is one of the Directors of the Callaway School of Needle Arts. She has been a student at Callaway since 1994. For six years she was a member of the Seminar Faculty Committee for the American Needlepoint Guild, coordinating classes and faculty for the national seminars. She is a member of ANG, EGA and NAN and has held offices in both ANG and EGA local chapters. A native of Kansas City, she holds a Master’s Degree in Reading Education and taught in the classroom for twenty years. In 2006 she, along with Kate Gaunt, founded the Shining Needle Society, an online educational site for classes in the needle arts. Kate Gaunt
Director, Callaway Gardens School of Needle Arts
Kate Gaunt is our other Director of the Callaway School of Needle Arts. Kate has been involved with the needlework community in a variety of roles, including service on the Seminar Faculty Committee for the American Needlepoint Guild (seven years) and representing Flying Needles and Stitch Elegance at TNNA trade shows. An enthusiastic collector of antique samplers, she is a member of both ANG and EGA. With an MBA with an emphasis in Marketing, Kate is the computer-oriented half of the Shining Needle Society team, along with Marie-Therese Baker.
Jody Adams
Jody Adams is the past Director of the Callaway Gardens School of Needle Arts, retired. She is an international teacher, designer, lecturer and judge and holds certification in canvaswork from the Valentine Museum, where she served as Director of Education and Director of Teacher Certification. Jody has been a faculty member of NAN, the Valentine Assembly, the Callaway Gardens School of Needle Arts and the Elsa Williams School of Needle Arts. She has taught at national seminars for ANG, EGA, the Council of Embroiderers, the Callaway Gardens School of Needle Arts, NAN’s Assembly for Embroiderers and at many regional and chapter seminars for ANG and EGA across the country. In 1997 she was honored with NAN’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award .
Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn
Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn are internationally known textile artists, authors and tutors. They belong to the prestigious 62 Group of Textile Artists and have exhibited their work throughout the world. Their work is in private and public collections. For many years both have written books on design and stitched textiles and have presented ideas on television and for video. In 1997 they formed Double Trouble Enterprises to publish books and promote further interest in embroidery and allied subjects. In 2006 they were jointly awarded ‘Textile Teacher of the Year’ UK.
Michael Boren
Michael Boren is a designer and a regional and local teacher specializing in geometric designs. Michael teaches needle arts at meetings and workshops for ANG and EGA chapters, at regional seminars, and in retail shops. Three of his designs have been featured in Needlepoint Now. He is a Life Patron member of ANG and is a member of numerous ANG and EGA chapters, and NETA.
Janet Zickler Casey
Janet Zickler Casey started her career as a medical technologist, but somewhere along the way, she picked up a needle and discovered her true vocation—stitching. Janet began teaching her own designs at a local shop in the Houston area, where she resides with her husband, Steve. In the middle 1990’s she began teaching on a national level at the American Needlepoint Guild’s annual seminar. Since that time, her whimsical characters have become somewhat of a trademark, and she continues to delight students with new creations year after year. Merry Cox
Merry Cox is from Clovis, CA. She credits her paternal grandmother for her love and appreciation of needlework. She has taught needlework for over 30 years including national seminars for EGA and ANG, National Academy of Needlearts at the Greenbrier, Callaway Gardens, Sampler Gathering, Spirit of Cross Stitch, Christmas in Williamsburg as well as many retreats and sampler seminars in the United States, Canada and England. Her designs have been featured on the covers of Just Cross Stitch magazine and Sampler and Antique Needlework magazine. Karla Gee
Karla Gee is a fiber artist and teacher, whose media is off-loom bead weaving. She is a 5th generation needle artist, beginning training with her great-grandmother. Teaching is a 31 year passion with 10 years dedicated to bead weaving. Karla has taught at EGA’s National Seminar and many EGA region seminar events. Karla holds two master degrees in education, including one from Virginia Tech. She also feels fortunate to have studied under some outstanding beading artists who include: Jeannette Cook, David Chatt, Maggie Meister and Don Pierce. She is a member of NETA, SDA, American Craft and a juried member of Fiber Forum, where she currently holds the title of “Jury Chair.” Karla has exhibited nationally and in many Virginia artist venues. Marsha Papay Gomola
Marsha Papay-Gomola has taught needlework at regional and national seminars for EGA, NAN, TNNA, The Sampler Gathering and Christmas in Williamsburg. She has been published in Fine Lines, NeedleArts and Sampler and Antique Needlework. In 2008 she received the Jean Taggart Award and The Exemplary Award from the National Academy of Needlearts. Marsha holds teacher certification in Level II raised embroidery through the National Academy of Needlearts. She specializes in raised embroidery, emphasizing the use of silk shading to create realistic contemporary designs.
Cara Hayes
A member of ANG, EGA, NAN and NETA, Cara’s award-winning work has been exhibited locally and nationally. She enjoys creating designs, inspired by her scientific background. Of prime interest to her is designing with traditional embroidery materials in a novel way, thus inspiring a fresh approach to mixed media on canvas for her students.
Barbara Jackson
Barbara Jackson is well known throughout the needlework world for her love of traditional Early English and American design. A graduate of the National Academy of Needlearts teacher certification program, she also holds a certificate “with distinction” from London’s Royal School of Needlework. Barbara has taught for many organizations over the years, including the EGA National Seminar, and markets her own original designs under the Tristan Brooks logo. Her work has been featured in Crewel A-Z published by Inspirations magazine and on the covers of the EGA magazine and Sampler and Antique Needlework Quarterly. Carole H. Lake
Carole Lake, from Austin, Texas, is an EGA-certified teacher who specializes in manipulating common and uncommon threads and stitches to create textured effects, with a special interest in the effect and symbolism of color. Her award-winning work has been displayed in exhibits throughout the southwest. She has been actively teaching and designing for over twenty years. A native Texan and graduate of Rice University, her enthusiasm for the needlearts has translated into a strong desire to exchange ideas, explore techniques, and share the love of stitching. Dorothy Lesher
Dorothy Lesher, a nationally known teacher and designer from Michigan, earned her Master Craftsman in canvas embroidery from EGA. She has served on the faculty of EGA and ANG National Seminars, Callaway Gardens School of Needle Arts, The National Academy of Needlearts Assembly at The Greenbrier and Kansas City and various regional seminars and guilds over the past 25 years. She has been featured in "Designers Across America" section of Needle Arts for EGA, Needlepoint Now, and her article of "The Faces of Needlework" was published in the ANG magazine, Needle Pointers. As a visiting instructor at Eastern Michigan University, she lectured and instructed on needlework for the physically impaired for the Occupational Therapy Department. Betty Chen Louis
Betty was born in Peking, China. She holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke, studied color and design with Patricia Lambert and apprenticed with Rita Klein of New York. Betty has done research in the textile rooms of museums in the United States, Canada and Asia. She has taught at ANG and EGA nationals, CAE, NAN, Callaway, EAC and the Melbourne (Australia) Seminar. Her special interests include color and design, as it applies to needlework. Joyce Lukomski
Joyce Lukomski is an international needlework teacher, designer, lecturer and show judge who earned certification through the Valentine Museum (NAN) where she served as Director of Teacher Certification and Director of Education. She was honored with NAN’s prestigious “Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2001. At the NAN Exemplary Exhibit in 2004 she won the blue ribbon in the Original Professional category, Best in Show and the Popular Choice Award for her “Opera Bag” which combines loom beading, beading on canvas and silk stitching on canvas. She also holds an Honorary Professional Fellow ANG Certification, as well as the coveted ANG Literary Award presented in 2005.
Since the mid 1970’s Joyce has taught national and regional seminars for EGA, ANG, Embroidery Association of Canada, Elsa Williams School of Needle Arts, Assembly for Embroiderers, Callaway Gardens School of Needle Art, as well as for numerous other seminars and guilds. In 1981 she combined the profession of her “first” life in journalism with her love of needlework and assumed the duties of editor of a guild magazine. She served in that capacity until summer of 1998. In the spring of 1999 she launched a commercial magazine, Needlepoint Now, which continues to enjoy popularity in America and many other countries.
Tony Minieri
Tony Minieri was formally educated at the Stevens Institute of Technology and is affiliated with ANG, NETA, EGA and NAN. His needlework education includes the National Seminar, Callaway Gardens School of Needle Arts, ANG and EGA workshops and Level I Certification (NAN). He has taught at the Callaway Gardens School of Needle Arts, TNNA, ANG and EGA chapters, the New England Regional (1994), the Canadian National (1995) and at local shops. His accomplishments include commercial designs through Brite Ideas and for Lois Caron and production of stitch and thread guides for Sunrunner and Renaissance Designs.
Lynn Payette
Lynn’s art education came from professional artist parents. She has taught for over 38 years at local, regional and national levels for EGA, ANG, EAC, Callaway; NAN, Stitching Sisters Seminars; Continuing Education – West Hartford, East Hartford; Daisy (shop); Thistle (shop), Manchester Sewing Center, Fabric Place, Quilt guilds, YWCA, her Studio, and has won numerous awards. Lynn has designed for: Janlynn Corp., Ibex Designs, Custom House and been published in Family Circle, Woman’s Day, McCall’s, Stitchery, Lee Wards, Threads, NeedleArts, and Stitchery and Needlelace.
She teaches mixed-media, multi-fiber techniques, crewel, silk ribbon, needle lace, Brazilian embroidery, stumpwork, silk and metal, crazy quilting, clothing embellishment, doll making and beading. Marnie Ritter
Marnie has taught needle art for over thirty years at national and regional seminars for ANG, EGA, Callaway Gardens, Kent State University, NAN, as well as guilds and shops national and international.
Marnie’s forte is to continuously discover new and innovative techniques that combine many facets of needle art. Her students enjoy her enthusiastic sharing of these years of seasoned experience.
Her certification in Surface Stitchery from The Council of Embroiderers, as well as experience in television and publishing, offers students a teacher well versed in the subject of needlework. Her newest venture in publishing is the creation of needlework calendars to be sold throughout the United States.
She has been a juried member of Fiber Forum, as well as serving as President of the Colorado Chapter of EGA in 1995/1996 and 2001/2002.
Gay Ann Rogers
Gay Ann Rogers has taught at national and regional seminars for EGA and ANG and at Callaway Gardens for more than 20 years. She is EGA-certified in canvaswork and has served on the EGA Teacher Certification Committee. She has written four books and numerous magazine articles for publishers in the US and in London. Her book, An Illustrated History of Needlework Tools, was translated into German. Gay Ann is an avid collector of needlework tools, lace and lately cameos, for which she has designed a series of needlepoint projects. Her favorite assignment of late: an article for Needle Arts on Audrey Francini, whose work she greatly admires.
Judy Souliotis
Judy Souliotis is a teacher of canvas and fabric embroidery, certified by the Embroiderers Guild of America in Silk and Metal thread work and by Kurenai-Kai in Traditional Japanese Embroidery. She has been studying Japanese Embroidery for the past sixteen years. Judy lived in Japan for several years; her knowledge of oriental customs and lifestyles, along with her extensive training, gives her a unique insight into the intricacies of Japanese embroidery.
Judy has studied with five teachers of Japanese Embroidery, including her most recent trip to Japan to study with the Living National Treasure of Embroidery. She was honored to host him in her home for a private class. She has displayed and demonstrated her embroidery in a two-woman show at the Morikami Museum in Florida and has also had a one-woman show in Massachusetts. An active student and teacher, Judy has taught nationally for ANG, EGA, NSCA, The Greenbrier and Callaway Gardens, as well as for regional and local seminars. She is past-president of the Massachusetts Chapter of ANG and was Northeast Area Representative for Chapter Development. She also served on the correspondence course committee the editorial committee of Needle Pointers for ANG and is on the advisory board for Needlepoint Now. Debbie Stiehler
Debbie Stiehler is an international needleart designer, teacher and lecturer. She has taught at many seminars, guilds and privately in the United States and Canada. She currently resides in South Carolina. Debbie is a Level 2 graduate in teacher certification from the National Academy of Needlearts, as well as also being an EGA Certified Master Craftsman in canvas embroidery. Debbie has studied bobbin lace making at the Ecole de Dentelle in Chamalieres, France.
Catherine Theron
Catherine C. Theron is a graduate of Cornell University studying English, history & design. She resides in Stewartsville, New Jersey. Her interest in needlework began as a small child. She is a self-taught designer and stitcher and has concentrated on counted thread techniques and especially samplers for the past 20 years. Catherine has taught for EGA & ANG chapters, sampler guilds, shops, private groups, museums, and wholesale trade shows.
Joan Thomasson
Joan Thomasson is an ANG Master Teacher and also the owner of Stitchin' Stuff, Inc. which markets designs nationwide. She is the past president of NETA, past Chairman of ICNA and has taught nationally for ANG, EGA, Callaway Gardens School of Needle Arts and the National Academy of Needlearts. Her designs have been featured in Needlepoint Now, NeedleArts, Needle Pointers and the Neiman Marcus Horchow Collection. Caela Conn Tyler
Caela Conn Tyler holds certification in canvaswork, Level II from the National Academy of Needlearts. Caela has taught in Canada and throughout the United States, including several national seminars for the American Needlepoint Guild and the Embroiderers’ Guild of America, numerous EGA regional seminars, the Council of American Embroiderers, Callaway School of Needle Arts and the National Academy of Needlearts. In 2006 she received NAN’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. Although canvaswork is her focus, she works in several media, particularly in garment design and embellishment. Caela actively participates in several needlework organizations and currently serves as Director of Teachers’ Certification for the National Academy of Needlearts. John Waddell
John has been stitching for over 35 years and is a member of EGA, TNNA, EAC, NETA and ANG. He teaches weekly open stitch classes and publishes stitch guides for painted needlepoint canvases. He has taught classes at the EGA and ANG National Seminars, at Callaway Gardens School of Needle Arts and at The National Needlework Association (TNNA). He has articles published in Needle Pointers magazine March 2002 and July 2004. He is the past President of the National Embroidery Teacher’s Association (NETA). John also is a member of EGA “Fiber Forum”.
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