Faculty Profile for Maggie Vanderweit

Maggie Vanderweit

Haliburton School of The Arts

Maggie Vanderweit has been sewing since childhood and quilting for over 30 years. She operates her textile art business from her studio in Fergus. Her work is in private collections around the world, in public buildings in Ontario, and has been exhibited in galleries and museums across Canada. It includes original wall-hangings created with her own painted fabrics, silk fusion, felt, hand embroidery, beading and densely machine quilted surfaces. Maggie presents lectures and classes for guilds, schools, art colleges, shops, the CQA, including One of a Kind and national needlework shows. She sells her original textile art at major exhibitions and from her studio. Maggie is a member of Connections. www.stonethreads.ca

Instructor for:

• Textile Collage - Mixed Media