Chosen through juried review from worldwide submissions, these thirty works highlight the craftsmanship, storytelling, originality, and creative range found within contemporary fiber art today.
Selected Works | June 1 – July 31
Juror's Choice - Winner
Featured Work
Artist: Catherine Beddall
Artwork title: Otters in Love
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: Approximately 18"x6"6"Location: Ottawa, CanadaInspiration For Piece: I love trying to capture the sleek, graceful movements of swimming otters. I've done a few otter pieces recently, in various poses, and recently I randomly saw an illustration on a stock photo site of one otter giving another one a kiss on the cheek - and I knew I had to try to create a sculpture inspired by that image.
Artist bio: Hello! I'm Catherine, a Canadian artist specializing in 3D needle felting. I love animals, and my primary goal with my art is to honour their significance, individuality, and importance to this planet, while highlighting their often playful and quirky natures. I've been needle felting for about 4 years now and fall more in love with the art every day!
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Top Finalists
These four selected works were recognized for their exceptional craftsmanship, storytelling, and presence within this year’s exhibition.
Artist: Deb Koesters
Artwork title: Woven Pain, Felt Love
Medium: Needle Felting Size: 16”x 20”
Location: Council Bluffs, IA USA
Inspiration For Piece: My needle felted artwork, titled ‘Woven Pain,’ reflects the complex and contrasting lives of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Through vibrant colors and intricate symbols, I explore the beauty and turmoil of their passionate relationship, capturing how their intertwined experiences of love and conflict shape their artistic legacies
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Artist bio: Deb Koesters began her felting journey at Snow Farm on the East Coast and naturally transitioned into fiber art due to her background as a cosmetologist. After studying under various talented professionals, she founded Feltersforte, where she focuses on creating wearable art, upholstery, and wall art. Residing in Council Bluffs, Iowa, she is involved in several art organizations and enjoys her life with her husband, two grown children, and four grandchildren.
Artist: Jennifer "Jen" Morgan
Artwork title: "The Gris-Gris Man" A Contemporary Felted Portrait of Dr. John
Inspiration For Piece: The Gris-Gris Man was born out of my deep love for the music, magic, and mystery of Dr. John and the city he so perfectly embodied. There’s a rhythm to New Orleans that gets under your skin—and his music carries it all: the grit, the soul, the spirit, and that unmistakable touch of the mystical.
While creating this piece, I had his music playing constantly in my studio. I let it guide me—almost like a collaboration. The layers of wool went down the way his sound feels to me: rich, textured, a little raw, and full of depth. One moment smooth and smoky, the next a little wild and unpredictable.
Fiber felt like the only way to tell this story. There’s something about working with wool—blending it, shaping it, building it up—that mirrors the way his music is layered with culture, history, and spirit. I didn’t want to just capture his likeness—I wanted to capture his presence.
The “gris-gris” energy, the mojo, the mystery… it’s all in there. This piece is my way of honoring not just the man, but the feeling he left behind—the kind that lingers long after the music fades.
Artist bio: Jennifer “Jen” Morgan is a Louisiana-based fiber and mixed media artist whose work is deeply inspired by the culture and rhythm of the Gulf South. With a BFA in Graphic Design and over 30 years in visual communication, she came to felting just over a year ago and quickly embraced it as a new way to express her artistic voice. Combining wet, Nuno, and needle felting, she translates her foundation in color and composition into richly textured contemporary portraits. Much of her work centers on Louisiana culture, capturing the spirit and stories of the people and traditions that define the region.
Artist: Starbright Curios - Janet Stanley and Wendy Chaytor
Artwork title: Bleached Coral Tryptic
Medium: Needle Felt and Wet Felt Size: The left side of the triptych is 21" x 17" x 3", the center is 21" x 30" x 3", and the right side is 20" x 16" x 3"
Location: Stittsville, Ontario, Canada
Inspiration For Piece: Stripped of color, bleached coral remains hauntingly beautiful. Though stressed, many reefs have recovered from major bleaching events. Their fragile resilience—life persisting against the odds—inspires this triptych.
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: We’re Starbright Curios’ sisters Wendy and Janet. We’re fortunate to share an interest in fibre art which allows us to spend time together creating and playing. Our work blends colourful whimsy with lifelike realism, all crafted through a combination of wet felting, needle felting, embroidery, beading, and other fibre art techniques. We love collaborating on larger pieces which reflect the imagination and joy at the heart of our work.
Artist: Cindy-Lou Thompson
Artwork title: An old-time “Lassie” inspired Collie
Medium: Needle Felting Size: 30" x 5" x 14"
Location: England
Inspiration For Piece: My love of the old Lassie films.
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: I am a self-taught needle felter, specializing in breeds of dog. I am also an author of three needle felting books and kit writer for World of Wool.
Selected Works
Chosen through international juried review, these twenty-five works were recognized for their artistic voice, technical execution, originality, and ability to leave a lasting impression. Together, they represent an exceptional collection of contemporary fiber art from artists around the world, each bringing a distinct perspective and presence to this year’s exhibition.
Artist: Shanna Duncan
Artwork title: Year of the Horse
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 18in x 22in x 5in
Location: Granite Falls, United States
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Inspiration For Piece: I was digging through my attic when I found the remnants of the horse's body. I was thinking about how beautiful the horse would have been upon its original purchase. Being said, I remembered the meanings behind the Chinese Zodiac. Being born during a "Year of the Snake", that creature signifies birth and changing. Taking that meaning, as well as the purpose behind the Year of the Horse, I decided to take the materials and make something new and fresh.
Artist: Tone-Kristin Lone
Artwork title: The Cabin on the Edge
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 20x30 cm
Location: Hauglandshella - Norway
Inspiration For Piece: This piece is made after a hike I had in the mountains near my home. I have tried to capture the cold and crisp autumn weather, using cold colours in the background, and warmer autumn colours in the front. Although nature in some way die in the autumn and the colours change to browner nuances, I still find it beautiful. The cabin in the background is somewhat distant and not the main focus of this piece. Still it gives the motive an extra touch, placed on the edge of the mountain, with an amazing view over the valley behind.
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: I am a self taught woolfelting artist from Norway. The inspiration for my motives usually comes from hikes or trips I have had, often in the mountains, by the seaside or in the forests. The landscapes I create are textured and tactile. I try to capture the beautiful nature that surrounds us by using one of nature's own materials - wool. I have been felting since 2021.
Artist: Mariana Hernandez Blanco
Artwork title: Silent bloom
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 70cm diameter
Location: Iceland
Inspiration For Piece: Growing up, I learned to make myself small. Feelings were folded away so as not to trouble anyone else — don’t rock the boat, be good, don’t complain. That quiet became a rule I followed until it shaped the shape of me.
This painting is my unmuted reply. The large butterfly covering the mouth is a complicated emblem: at once a record of imposed silence and a sign that transformation is possible. Silence can smother, but it can also, paradoxically, be the soil in which something new takes root.
I painted this to reclaim the permission I was never given: to feel, to be seen, to open. It is an act of witness to the small, patient rebellions that happen when we refuse to stay quiet about who we are. The work asks the viewer to hold tenderness and rupture at once — to notice that keeping peace can cost a voice, and that reclaiming that voice is both fragile and fierce.
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: I’m Mariana, a fiber artist from Costa Rica. I create paintings and sculptures with wool (needle felting), transforming my photographs into expressive painted work and using imagination and material play to shape my sculptures; every piece of my art has a story to tell. What began as a hobby four years ago has become a practice that blends texture, color, and narrative, inviting viewers into small handcrafted stories rooted in place and memory.
Artist: Natalie Brooks
Artwork title: Poor Production
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: H 12.5cm x W 15cm x D 15cm
Location: Dudley, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Inspiration For Piece: This piece is part of my current body of work which explores the emotional response to my own lived experiences. This includes themes around emotional repression, parental guilt, postnatal depression and the struggle to breastfeed. Throughout the creation of my work, I believes that the physical act of making can help with reflection and healing and is the main reason that I use needle felting as my main technique.
Animal imagery features heavily within my work and the choice of animal is determined by connections with their behaviour or mythology. I regularly uses birds and bees together as they are symbolic of the idealised parental experience but often show them at odds. Bird murmurations or bee swarms can show the idea of safety within a group, but also the exhausting pressure to keep up with others. Cuckoos (both in birds and bees) appear regularly as a subversion of the maternal expectation. They mimic others to gain access to the maternal role whilst at the same time they are unable to provide.
Poor Production is specifically about my struggle to breastfeed. I chose Bumblebees because unlike honey bees, they only make just enough honey to feed their young. The loose representation of a honeycomb resembles that of a nipple, padlocked shut and inaccessible. A bee ball is a defensive mechanism and the imagery of the squirming ball of insects reflects the discomfort felt when struggling to produce enough milk for a baby when your body is not living up to expectations. The exhaustion to keep up with other mothers is reflected in the swarm of bees reacting to an outsider, in my case someone that feels like a poor mother, but in the literal sense, the cuckoo bee above the ball that takes away the key to the padlock.
Sale Price: Yes, please contact via email info@nataliebrooksartist.co.uk
Artist bio: Natalie attained a BA(hons) in Fine Art from Hereford College of Arts and has exhibited nationally. She works within the West Midlands area and runs regular in person needle felting workshops. She has recently become an Associate of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.
Natalie’s work explores the emotional response to her own lived experiences including themes around emotional repression, parental guilt and postnatal depression. Natalie believes that the physical act of making can help with reflection and healing and time spent making work by hand has been the main ethos to her multi-practice approach.
Artist: Nella Baduini
Artwork title: I'm Not Hysterical
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 13" x 10" x 8"
Location: St. Louis, MO, USA
Inspiration For Piece: This wool sculpture on a wooden base is a meditation on feminine rage, particularly the rage of a woman who has been injured by conservative purity culture. Unicorns have long been a literary and mythological symbol of the virginal purity of young women, which has been commodified and fetishized for hundreds of years of Western culture. My unicorn, with a bare skull in place of her head, invites the viewer to consider what we see as beautiful and why. Despite her “disfigurement”, she is powerful and furious and ready to defend herself.
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: Nella Baduini is a sculptor and storyteller working in St. Louis, Missouri. Drawing on a life-long, science-driven passion for the animal kingdom, she sculpts unique creatures and curiosities out of soft wool roving. She aims to pair one-of-a-kind companions and collectibles with people who seek to bring the fantastical into their lives.
Artist: Dorothy Nichols
Artwork title: Mr. Tiger
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 16 x11 inch
Location: Watlington United Kingdom
Inspiration For Piece: My love of Tigers
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: I am retired and learned to needle felt during an online course I took 6 years ago during covid.
Artist: Mandy Troxel
Artwork title: American Goathic
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 14x16
Location: Eastsound, WA, USA
Inspiration For Piece: This piece was inspired by the red apple-packing barn that is my favorite structure on Orcas Island. The mama goat, Ziggy, and her twins were literally holding this pose for me outside the barn door as I emerged after milking. “American Goathic” as a title amuses me, as their stoic pose reminded me of American Gothic, the famous Grant Wood painting.
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: Mandy Troxel is a fiber artist based in the San Juan Islands, a stunning archipelago in the Pacific Northwest, accessible only by air or sea. Her wool paintings stem from the natural beauty of the Salish Sea and the rich history of agriculture that defined the islands for centuries. She considers her work the culmination of the sense of purpose experienced while farming with her deeply grounded sense of home on the island. She broadens that purpose by engaging her community in educational events surrounding agriculture and creativity, leading workshops for all ages and through her membership in the Orcas Island Artworks Artist Cooperative.
Artist: Carolyn St Clair Hibbard
Artwork title: The Love Seat
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 24"×16"×10"
Location: Roseburg, Oregon, USA
Inspiration For Piece: I wanted to express the emotion of a life long love story, which in reality is so rare.
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: I discovered needle felting post retirement and it's taken me on an amazing and unexpected journey. I adore creating older adult characters that show the beauty and emotion of a life well lived in a whimsical way. I recently published a book, 'A Swete Book of Tales,' with 50 of my characters and their stories.
Artist: Leslie McFarlane
Artwork title: Before the Leaf
Medium: Wet Felting
Size: 30" x 30" x 1.5"
Location: Lawrencetown Nova Scotia Canada
Inspiration For Piece: This piece reflects a moment of emergence, when form begins to reveal itself but remains quietly unresolved. Our vineyard is currently reflecting this emergence!
Sale Price: $1200.00 - Please email lesliemcfarlanestudio@gmail.com
Artist bio: Leslie McFarlane is a fibre artist whose work is rooted in wet felting. Inspired by natural materials and the philosophy of wabi-sabi, her practice explores texture, transformation and the quiet beauty of imperfections. Through layered 2-dimensional works and sculptural forms, she reflects themes of fragility, resilience and the rhythms of the natural world. Alongside exhibiting, teaching and mentoring are central to her practice, allowing her to share the expressive and meditative power of fibre art.
Artist: Jan Shields
Artwork title: On The Rocks
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 5’X4’
Location: Courtenay Canada
Inspiration For Piece: “On the rocks” was inspired by a love of felting for felts sake…cold rainy evenings when a day of playing on warm river rocks is a far off memory.
To felt without pressure or pattern, to create one of a kind rocks and lay them together to make a sumptuous floor mat or cozy wall hung tapestry inspired me.
Sale Price: $5000.00 - Please email janshieldsrmt@gmail.com
Artist bio: Jan is a self taught needle felting artist from Vancouver Island Canada. Working with heart and hands she’s provided massage therapy for 36 years and needle felted the past ten. After a brief introduction she felt an immediate affection and intuitiveness for the craft. An even balance of massage, felting and gardening is a great day for Jan.
Artist: Kelly Kingdon
Artwork title: Wandering Perch
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 24" x 36" x1"
Location: Erin, Canada
Inspiration For Piece: In this dream-like composition, the elk serves as a nomadic perch for a group of birds. While the scene feels stable, it is defined by a looming transition: the certainty that the elk will shed its antlers. Examining the tension between holding on and letting go, illustrating how the natural world is constantly shifting beneath our feet.
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: I'm Kelly Kingdon, creator of @thepowerofk_feltedart. I am a self-taught needle felting artist with a background in graphic design, based out of Erin, ON. Inspired by nature’s details. Fungi, plants and fauna.
Working with both 2D and 3D needle felting formats, I create colourful Canadian landscapes and artwork crafted with 100% natural and ethically sourced materials. I am dedicated to injecting as many details as possible in my pieces and find my art both meditative and essential for my self-care.
Artist: Fernanda Arranha Eckert
Artwork title: Blue Racing Pigeon
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 10x 1x 8
Location: West Richland -WA -USA
Inspiration For Piece: My work with pigeons comes from a place of memory and inheritance. When I was a child, my father was a racing pigeon keeper, and I grew up close to these birds—not as symbols, but as part of everyday life. I helped him care for them, watched them leave, and waited for their return.
That rhythm—of departure and coming back—stayed with me.
Through needle felting, I recreate pigeons in a slow, tactile way, building them fiber by fiber. This process mirrors the patience I remember from those early years: the quiet routines, the attention, the connection between human and animal.
The pigeons I make are not exact replicas, but emotional translations. They carry softness, vulnerability, and presence. For me, they represent memory, care, and a sense of home that is both physical and emotional.
This work is a way of honoring where I come from, and of keeping those moments—small, repetitive, and meaningful—alive in a new form.
Artist bio: Arranha , a Brazilian brand , was born from the desire to create pieces by hand and with the feeling of exclusivity that only pieces developed one by one provide.
Artist: Jennifer Costa
Artwork title: Needled in Monet’s Haystacks
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 20x12x2 inches
Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
Inspiration For Piece: Claude Monet's Haystack paintings! I love how needle felting has the ability to recreate impressionist techniques through color layering and underpainting.
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: A crafter since childhood, Jennifer Costa discovered needle felting in 2020. She was hooked after the first few stabs! She enjoys landscape and three-dimensional felting, and is especially passionate about teaching her craft to others. She also sells her work in galleries around NC.
Artist bio: I'm a mixed media artist with love of textiles. Most of my works begin with a wet felted backdrop used as my canvas, onto which I work in fibres, paper and paint.
Artist: Yukiko Tomishima
Artwork title: The Quiet Cycle
Medium: Wet Felting
Size: 95cm, 38cm, 2cm
Location: Sydney, Australia
Inspiration For Piece: This piece was inspired by the quiet rhythm of the moon and the stillness found in nature at night. Through the changing phases of the moon, I wanted to express the gentle cycles and transitions within our own lives, layering wool to reflect softness and movement.
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: I am a fiber artist based in Australia, creating works that combine wet felted textiles, embroidery, and natural materials. Inspired by nature, folklore, and quiet moments in everyday life, I explore softness, movement, and delicate colour through wool and thread. My work aims to evoke warmth, storytelling, and a sense of gentle wonder for the viewer.
Artist: Cindy-Lou Thompson Artwork title: German Shepherd Guide Dog
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 30" x 5" x 14"
Location: England
Inspiration For Piece: So few guide dogs are German Shepherds and the very first Guide Dog was a German Shepherd.
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: I am a self-taught needle felter, specialising in breeds of dog. I am also an author of three needle felting books and kit writer for World of Wool.
Artist: Kelly Conrad
Artwork title: Nautilus
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 11 1/4 x 12 x 8 inches
Location: Everett, USA
Inspiration For Piece: Nautilus are amazing looking creatures, and I wanted a challenge. Each piece of the nautilus had to be constructed carefully and then felted together, and each piece presented its own hardship. Each work I finish teaches me something new, and I learned a ton from this one. The top of the shell had to be sawn off because the proportions weren't correct. I had to work out how to felt over thin wires for the small tentacles. I learned a ton about combining colors. I loved all I learned. I've tried many artistic mediums over the years, and needle felting is the one that gives me the most freedom of expression and fearlessness to try new things.
Artist bio: I am a needle felting artist creating detailed wall hangings and sculptural pieces inspired by the natural world. My work is especially influenced by the sea, the shoreline, and the creatures that live there, drawing this environments textures, movement, and beauty to bring each piece to life.
Artist: Maggie Toole
Artwork title: Now What!?
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 6”x6”
Location: Los Angeles California USA
Inspiration For Piece: I wanted to try my style in this new medium
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: I’ve always been an artist. My practice over the last 30+ yrs I’ve been a colored pencil artist. Recently I was reminded of needle felting and had an idea to try drawing with wool. I am entering my first experiments, I am obsessed. I do figurative work.
Artist: Heidi Leugers
Artwork title: Cacti Collection
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: Group: 6”diameter x 5.5” high; Prickly Pear 4.5” diam x 9.5” high; Barrel Cacti 3”diam x 2.5” high
Location: Lake Oswego, Oregon
Inspiration For Piece: My love of New Mexico, Arizona and the High Desert of Oregon
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: Heidi brings over 25 years of mastery working with wool in nearly every form, including 15 years teaching needle felting, dyeing, and wet felting. Through her zero-waste studio business, Reclaimed Wool, she has handcrafted more than 500,000 items sold to specialty retailers and fine craft galleries across the USA since 2001.
Her work was featured in Cycle-Logical: Recycling Matters for Eco-Art (Weintraub, 2007), the first academic teaching text published on art and ecology. Her designs have been carried at the American Folk Art Museum in New York, the Milwaukee Art Museum, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Chihuly Garden & Glass, and more.
Artist: Kris Kieper
Artwork title: Luminance
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 24 x 16 x 1.5 inches
Location: Grand Marais, United States
Inspiration For Piece: This piece was inspired by a stunning sunset photograph at Onagon Lake near the end of the Gunflint Trail, taken by my friend Kim Dayton. I incorporated five types of wool in my artwork, including long-staple, fine-micron Merino and short-staple Bergschaf Batting. Multiple layers of colored fiber blends were applied to depict the clouds, while eight shades of gray and black add monochromatic depth to the shadowed treeline, contrasting with the pinks, oranges, purples, and blues in the sky and their reflections in the water. Various techniques, like cutting and re-felting, were employed to illustrate the sunlight reflections on the surface.
Sale Price: This piece is for sale at Sivertson Gallery in Grand Marais. Call the gallery with inquiries. https://sivertson.com/
Artist bio: Kris Kieper is a fiber artist living on the Gunflint Trail in Northeastern Minnesota, where she creates needle-felted landscapes she calls "Feltscaping." She strives for realism by using fine amounts of fiber to achieve intricate details and layers of hand-blended wool to capture the subtle color variations found in nature. Her pieces focus on the character of the Boreal Forest, specifically capturing the movement of water, the structure of Northwoods trees, and the light of dynamic wilderness skies. By layering various textures and tones, she aims to recreate the specific atmosphere and sensations of the outdoor experiences that inspired each piece.
.Artist: Susan Stentiford
Artwork title: Lady Sheep in Springtime
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 11.5”x 5”x 13”
Location: Davidsonville, Maryland USA
Inspiration For Piece: Inspired by sheep in the fields in my area. Wanted to bring a version into my home.
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: I have been involved in art most of my life and worked in various mediums. I love drawing, painting, and have sculpted in polymer clay to create different characters. I do, however, find I like needle felting the most.
Artist: Dawn Conner
Artwork title: Before the Fall
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 14x14x10
Location: Stouffville, Canada
Inspiration For Piece: My faith journey
Sale Price: Sold
Artist bio: Dawn Connor is a felt artist from Stouffville, Ontario who spent part of her childhood living in the mountains of Switzerland. Her felt work is largely inspired by her rural childhood memories, folk tales and animal study. Focusing on individual expressions and dispositions, Dawn’s sculptural work features both domestic and wild animals. She finds something uniquely satisfying and extraordinary about using the fibre of one animal to create another. The vibrance and natural beauty of wool fibres are captivating and help her creations feel almost breathing and alive.
Artist: Michael Rouse
Artwork title: The Sky Changes Colour
Medium: Wet Felting
Size: 11" X 14"
Location: Kitchener, Canada
Inspiration For Piece: As a young man I was blessed to travel around the Bruce Peninsula in Canada, building cottages with my father. As a man I was gifted with the opportunity to return to a harbour I hadn't seen for decades and be inspired by its beauty in a new way.
Sale Price: $400 - Please email rousemrouse@gmail.com
Artist bio: I have been felting with wool for fifteen years, since my friend and mentor Pat Nosal-Bremner said, “You’ve got to try this!” Thank you, Pat, for getting me hooked on wool. I have a background in arts education and am largely a self taught fibre artist. I am inspired by nature and am blessed to live beside Lake Huron, near Tobermory, in the summer, where I also share my work at markets with my partner and fellow wool felt artist Peter van Ryn. We share our creations under the name woolwaterneedle.
Artist: Anette Mossler
Artwork title: The Edge of Sustenance
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 18x35x10 cm without diorama
Location: Heppenheim, Germany
Inspiration For Piece: The inspiration came from a photograph by Stefan Nielsen showing a cheetah drinking at a waterhole in Mpumalanga, South Africa. I was drawn to the calmness of the moment and the natural elegance of the animal, which I tried to capture in fiber.
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: German fiber artist Anette Mossler began needle felting in 2022 after the loss of her soul dog, turning to fiber art as a quiet way to hold on to presence and memory. She explored other sculptural media such as polymer clay, but needle felting became the medium that resonated with her most deeply. What started as a personal process grew into a steady practice of creating lifelike wildlife and animal sculptures. Her work focuses on anatomy, expression, and subtle emotional moments, shaped by patience, observation, and a deep respect for the natural world.
Artist: Annette Dahlberg
Artwork title: The Cookie Conflict
Medium: Needle Felting
Size: 10" x 16" x 6"
Location: Vancouver, Washington - USA
Inspiration For Piece: This piece was inspired by the amazement I feel when nature combines with our human presence in campgrounds and picnic areas.
Sale Price: Not For Sale
Artist bio: Artist, outdoors enthusiast, dog lover... needle felting brings all of my favorite roles together! I love the challenge and joy of capturing reflections of God's creation with fiber. I am inspired by the beauty of the Pacific Northwest, where I camp, paddle, bird-watch, and thrive. While I have only felted for 3 years, I feel that a lifetime of creativity has come together through this amazing medium.
Meet the Exhibition Jurors
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Introducing Juror Jo Hobbs
Jo Hobbs is a British fibre artist and sculptor known for her intricate, realistic needle felted animals. Working from her home studio under the name CurlyJoCreation, she transforms ethically sourced wool into detailed sculptures that capture not only the likeness of a pet, but its spirit and personality. Her work has earned a devoted following of collectors and pet owners around the world who commission her pieces as both celebration works and lasting tributes.
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Introducing Yuko Matsushita
Yuko Matsushita is a Japanese fiber artist working under the studio name Cuusha Forest Studio (森羊のクーシャ). She creates intricate needle felted wildlife, particularly birds, inspired by the forests and satoyama landscapes of Japan. Through close observation of nature, she combines wool with other natural fibers to recreate the subtle textures and quiet presence of living creatures. Her work reflects a deep respect for the interconnected lives of animals and their environments.
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Katherine McClelland
Kat McClelland is a fiber artist and educator whose work brings a painter’s eye to felt. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, she explored a wide range of disciplines before returning to her artistic practice and discovering felting as her ideal medium. Her work blends physical process with painterly expression, resulting in pieces that feel both thoughtful and deeply expressive. She now teaches art at a small high school in Connecticut while continuing to develop a body of felted work in her studio.
Why This Exhibition Exists
The International Juried Fiber Art Exhibition was created to help bring greater recognition to needle felting and wet felting as legitimate and powerful contemporary art forms.
Too often, fiber art is viewed only through the lens of craft, despite the extraordinary level of technical skill, creativity, storytelling, and emotional depth found within the medium. This exhibition was created to help challenge that perception and to showcase the range, complexity, and artistic voices that exist within the felt art community worldwide.
One of the most rewarding parts of organizing this exhibition has been seeing artists from around the world submit work that is thoughtful, innovative, deeply personal, and visually unforgettable. From realism to abstraction, quiet storytelling to bold conceptual work, these pieces demonstrate just how expansive fiber art can be.
My hope is that this exhibition continues to grow each year, helping more people discover the artistry within needle felting and wet felting while also creating opportunities for artists to have their work seen, celebrated, and respected within the larger art world.
Rustic Fiber Academy Founder Christie Lower
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