A native Floridian and graduate of Florida State University, Evelyn Beck taught college English until her retirement in 2015. Since then, she has devoted herself to fiber art, which uses fabric as the medium. Her work has been exhibited in shows throughout The Palmetto State, including in a South Carolina State Museum Traveling Exhibition, and has been published on the cover of the 2022 Multifaith Calendar and on the brochure cover of the 2020 Greater Greenville Master Gardeners Symposium. She recently received an Emerging Artist Grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission. She lives in Anderson, S.C.

Lynne G. Harrill was born in Asheville, NC, and lived most of her life there. She started sewing at a young age, and was sewing professionally by her high school years. Formal education includes degrees in both education and business; however elective classes were in art and music. While her first quilt was made in the late 1970’s, it wasn’t until 1989 that she began making art quilts. Her quilts have won numerous ribbons and monetary awards and have been shown in regional, national and international venues. Ms. Harrill was commissioned to make a large quilt for Duke University Hospital in Durham, NC and has several quilts in other corporate settings. She was juried into the Southern Highland Craft Guild in 1996. Over the years, Harrill has taught quilting classes, given lectures and workshops. Most recently, she and her husband have relocated to Flat Rock, NC where she works in her studio. Her interests revolve around dyeing her own quilting fabric, gardening, and photography.

Cynthia Steward has always strived to create, stemming from a lifelong love of textiles and visual arts. Her creative journey started when she began sewing at a young age and progressed to making and designing quilts. Ultimately she discovered the synergy of art quilting, allowing her the freedom to incorporate traditional and non-traditional quilting techniques and surface design to create art with tactile and visual textures. An engineering background and traveling have influenced Cynthia’s artistic expression, often inspired by the beauty of landscapes and the elegant mathematical relationships occurring in nature. Primarily self-taught, Steward would later study watercolor painting and drawing from notable artists, along with attending mixed media, surface design, and quilt- related workshops to learn and develop new skills.

Denny started quilting in 1994 when her first grandchild was born. In 2007 she retired from her life as a feminist therapist and professor of psychiatric nursing. Denny is currently exploring a range of surface design techniques and incorporating hand-dyed fabrics and mixed media in her art quilting. Layered stories told with fabric, thread, photographs, paint and dye illustrate what we can and cannot see; what we know but cannot prove.