GUEST INSTRUCTORS
The Weaver's Croft is pleased to host guest instructors in the Studio. These talented craftspeople will be presenting a wide variety of classes and workshops throughout the year.
Noel Guetti
Noel Guetti (he/him) is a lifelong textile philosopher and craftsperson. He works with the overlapping practices of weaving, sewing, and pattern design to explore the ways that clothing brings people more fully into their bodies and souls. His goal as a teacher is to cultivate learning environments where building friendship is a priority and knowledge flows in all direction. See more of his work at prayersforwhatis.com or on Instagram @prayersforwhatis.
Andrea is a shepherd, fiber artist, educator, and bast fiber researcher based in southern Vermont. As a handspinner and weaver, she has a longtime interest in antique textile tools. Her work in natural fiber research focuses on the revitalization of local and regional textile production systems as a means to confront climate change and revitalize rural economies.
Andrea is an experienced instructor of weaving on the warp-weighted loom.
She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Northern New England Fibershed, and was the recipient of a 2017/18 USDA SARE grant exploring the growing and processing of flax for community-scale linen production.
She is a graduate of Macalester College, St. Paul, MN.
Andrea Myklebust
Rosemary Wexler
Rosemary Wexler (she/her) is a barn loom specialist living in Chicago. She trained under Kate Smith starting in 2019, has reproduced historic trims for Eaton Hill Textile Works, and weaves functional cloth at
Meet me in the loom. She has been teaching weaving since 2021.
Dosia Sanford
Dosia Sanford came to learn to weave with Kate Smith at the Marshfield School of Weaving in 2010 and then went on to weave for Eaton Hill Textile Works. She also started teaching at MSW and then at Weaver's Croft and her speciality is in hand dyed Rep Weave/Warp Faced Rugs.
Elena Rose
At nine years old, Elena encountered a table loom for the first time at a local summer program and discovered a passion for weaving. She continued to take classes there each summer through high school and, many years later, returned to teach budding fiber artists in the same program. In 2021, Elena enrolled in Foundations of Weaving at the Marshfield School of Weaving and realized a love for the scale and complexities of the counterbalance loom as well. Each summer since, she has made a pilgrimage to Vermont to create alongside other artists.
Kerry Massarick
Kerry Masarik is a North Carolina textile artist who weaves 18th-19th century inspired items. Kerry’s research on woven strapping, shines a light on structures and weavers who contributed fundamental decorative and utilitarian items for Colonial and early American life.
Her weaving has been recognized and selected for the Directory of Traditional American Crafts and featured in American Traditions and Muzzleloader Magazines. Kerry is the current Vice President of the Blue Ridge Fiber Guild, NC and a member of Mid-Atlantic Fiber Association and Handweavers Guild of America.
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Janelle Storesund
Janelle Storesund is a textile artist and software engineer based in the NYC area and Hordaland, Norway. She is interested in old textile tools, street fashion, and traditional folk dress. She questions whether old technology can find a place in a new, increasingly automated world by exploring the intimate relationship between craftspeople and the materials they use.
Janelle’s recent work focuses on sprang and sewing, combining historical research with hands-on experimentation. Aside from textiles, she and her partner are restoring an 18th century farmhouse in Sunnhordland, Norway.
Clem Gibsom
Clem Gibson (they/them) is a spinner, weaver, and garment maker from Maine. They began weaving in 2021 and have since spent three years studying traditional weaving at Sätergläntan craft school in Sweden.
Their textile practice is focused on creating beautiful, useful fabric for everyday life as a means of coming back into alignment with the natural world.
As a teacher, Clem works to create supportive environments of communal learning, informed by traditional knowledge and creativity.
Lily Belldale
Lily Belldale (she/her) is a folk artist rooted in New England’s craft vernacular with a passion for Northern European folk art traditions.
The beauty of everyday life and decorative functionality form the basis of her art practice.
She is inspired by stories of place, family history, and vernacular folk art, particularly within historically underrepresented narratives such as Native history, Black history, and women’s and working class histories.
She has studied at Fosen Folk School in Norway, Sätergläntan Institutet för Slöjd och Hantverk in Sweden, as well as Goddard College and the Marshfield School of Weaving in Vermont. She has worked for a variety of schools and institutions including Old Sturbridge Village Museum in Massachusetts, among many others.
Beth Ross Johnson
Beth Ross Johnson is a weaver, teacher and workshop leader living in Black Mountain, North Carolina. She grew up in Charleston, South Carolina and when she became interested in weaving and textile arts, learned initially from students from Norman Kennedy, later studying with him for many workshops. A lifelong fascination with Asian art led to an interest in Japanese textiles and she has had two extensive stays in Japan to study kasuri (ikat weaving and dyeing) and sakiori (rag weaving) with master weavers there.
Other avenues of exploration have been sashiko stitching and nyoho-e (Zen stitching).
Recent studies have been in the ikat traditions of Europe, influenced by the 18th century wave of Orientalism on the continent, and woven structures like sashiko-ori and kasuri-ori that mimc hand stitching and ikat processes.
The craft schools, weather, and music compelled a move to western North Carolina in 1980 where she has worked a number of arts related jobs (including in environmental and craft preservation in Cherokee) while maintaining a studio and teaching in formal and informal institutions. She is now
weaving and teaching full-time and is co-authoring a book on Sashiko-ori.
Chloe Corner
Chloe Corner is a