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4 WHAT'S UP! FEBRUARY 7-13, 2021 EUREKA SPRINGS 'Macramé With Quartz Crystals' Caragh McCallion Driftwood, organic cotton with embedded quartz crystals 'The Eye' Edwige Denyszyn Quilting, felting and fabric paint 'Ozark Mountains' Eleanor Lux Cotton, wool, flax and glass beads 'Blue Shawl' Kelli Cole Ladwig Hand knitted from hand painted merino and corriedale yarns 'Inclusive Man' Alan Margolies Mixed media: crochet, beading, paint Springs with her daughters, she began to work as a weaver, demonstrating spinning, weaving, and yarn-dying techniques at craft shows and local businesses while also creating custom fiber tapestries, rugs, and window shades, and other functional fiber art pieces for clients. She travels to Mexico every year with her husband and needed a way to continue creating on the road. That is where her passion for beadwork began. "Technically, beading is also weaving because I'm weaving with a needle through each glass bead," she says. "It combines my two loves." Lux is a co-founder of the Eureka Springs School of the Arts and in 2016 received the Arkansas Arts Council Living Treasure Award. Edwige A. Denyszyn Born in France of Polish immigrants, Denyszyn came to the U.S. in 1962 and to Eureka Springs in 2004 to start Keels Creek Winery. "From the early 1990s, beading has been my primary medium; second is fiber art," Denyszyn says. "As to why, well the short story is I was a basket weaver in the 1980s where I incorporated a lot of beads and fibers into my weavings. I have made masks before in different mediums. The use of threads or fabric is new for me. "What is at Brews currently is more representative of the fiber art. My bead work is very elaborate and expensive, [and] I keep in mind the cost for Brews clientele." Caragh McCallion "Nature has always been my inspiration to create," says McCallion. "Houseplants bring nature and harmony to your space and are amazing air purifiers. In appreciation of the macrame aesthetic and with a desire to surround myself with plants inside my home, I began to make plant hangers. "Enjoying the macrame process, I expanded to creating decorative wall hangings, curtains, jewelry, wedding decor and more. I work primarily with 100% organic cotton and also use other natural and sustainable materials. Each piece of Morning Glory Macrame is one of a kind." Kelli Cole Ladwig Kelli Cole Ladwig has lived full time in Eureka Springs since July after having "lazily circled the Ozarks my entire life." "My primary medium is thread, cotton or wool, preferably," she says. "I quilt, knit and crochet. I don't remember a time when I didn't love paper and cloth. I remember pestering relatives to teach me to quilt and embroider. I also remember cutting the buttons off a hand-me- down housecoat and sewing 'fancy' buttons on from my mother's button box. That was a lovely mess. I had to have been 4 because I wasn't in school yet. "While I love the shawls that I have made, and I own an online knitting business and teach knitting classes, my heart is with the American flag quilt [at Brews]. It isn't the best quilt, but it represents one of my passions, and that is teaching fiber arts to children. It was a sample I made for a children's fiber art camp. They made that quilt in one week from start to finish. I am proud of those children and what they learned in one week." Alan Margolies The seventh artist could not be reached for this story. Twisted Continued From Page 3