Bonnie Black is a retired art education professor who moved back to Missouri in June and now lives in the house her family moved into when she was 10 years old. She is a fiber artist and works in several different areas. She started out as a weaver in college and now works with felting, bookmaking, basketry, beading, and several other areas. She is getting her new studio set up in Camdenton and looks forward to working with the fantastic fiber artists in Missouri.

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Carol Zeman is a retired graphic Designer/Art Director who had just been waiting to go back to fine art.  She is a fiber artist and loves papermaking, non-traditional baskets and sculptural forms, with a little photography and digital art on the side.  She lives in Osage Beach at Lake of the Ozarks.



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Pat Owoc creates mixed media fiber constructions and art quilts.  She is a retired high school counselor, works as a full-time artist, and lives in St. Louis where visits to the Missouri Botanical Garden provide a never-ending source of ideas.  Pat explores the natural world, prairie landscapes and memory in her art work.



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Leandra Spangler is a papermaker, with interests in surface design, basketry, book making and mixed media collage. After teaching art in the Columbia Public School system for twenty five years, she became a full-time studio artist in 2000. Her sculptural vessel forms can be seen in juried and invitational exhibitions internationally. Always wanting to share her enthusiasm for fiber arts, she teaches workshops at conferences, guilds and in her studio, Bear Creek Paperworks. She joined MoFA in 1991, becoming Membership Chairman in 2004.
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Barb Zapulla has been an Interior Designer for over 35 years and is an Adjunct Instructor at Maryville University. Her fiber work/weaving has varied over the years, from textile weaving on both a jack and tapestry loom, to knotted waxed linen vessels, deer antler basketry, bead weaving, pine needle basketry, batik/mud dyeing, embroidery and knitting/crocheting. She draws inspiration from nature, wildlife and Indian cultures, and her work tells stories through cultural symbols and designs. Her recent membership in MoFa is strengthening her fiber education and provides continuing inspiration for her fiber work.
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Carlene Fullerton is a mixed-media fiber artist living in St. Louis.  A retired art teacher and museum educator and now full-time artist, except when she is traveling, she has been a MoFA member for 29 years and has served on the MoFA Board in many capacities during those years. In her work, she explores the themes of figures, identity and transformation.


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Barbara Overby is a founding member of MoFA. Although her work over the years has been mainly as a weaver, she has always been interested in all the fiber arts. Her weaving career began in 1952 at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. In 1955, she apprenticed with Leah Allen, weaver and teacher in Portland, OR. Since then, she has taught small children to use a loom, taught at conferences and workshops, given workshops at various guilds and groups in the Midwest and has been a member of the Columbia Spinners and Weaver's Guild in Columbia.
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Barbara Overby is a founding member of MoFA. Although her work over the years has been mainly as a weaver, she has always been interested in all the fiber arts. Her weaving career began in 1952 at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. In 1955, she apprenticed with Leah Allen, weaver and teacher in Portland, OR. Since then, she has taught small children how to use a loom, taught at conferences and workshops, given workshops at various guilds and groups in the Mid West and has been a member of the Columbia Spinners and Weaver's Guild in Columbia.
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Judy Cobillas lives in the St. Louis County area of Missouri. She received her B.A. and M.A. in St. Louis as well. Her lifelong interest in multicultural arts and traditions has played an important role in her work and her personal life. She has had the opportunity to travel to Japan, Italy and Mexico. The richness of these experiences is developed in her fiber work as well as in the classes she teaches. She concentrates primarily on surface design, reconstructing the cloth before it is finished into art quilts, but never limits her opportunities to work in other fiber mediums.
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