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.

president@missourifiberartists.com

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.



vicepresident@missourifiberartists.com

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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Paula McFarling’s passions are weaving and dyeing, although she has dabbled in papermaking, basketry, and surface design. In her studio she has 4 floor looms which she tries to always keep warped, mainly with scarves, linens, and rugs. Having taught textiles and fiber arts as a college instructor, she currently works as a research coordinator, organizing surveys and focus groups just like she organizes yarns on a loom. She has held many offices in MoFA and after a hiatus, is back again as their treasurer.

treasurer@missourifiberartists.com

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.
membership@missourifiberartists.com

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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Suzy Farren has been a writer all of her life, discovering fiber arts only recently (not counting knitting, which was probably the most important thing she learned in college).  She is the author of several books and was the executive producer of an Emmy Award winning documentary, A Call to Care: The Women Who Built Catholic Heatlhcare. Mixed media is her passion.


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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.
parliamentarian@missourifiberartists.com