About Us

Curly Clark is a fiber artist who creates art quilts. While in residency, Clark continued to work on her “I Dream of Irene” series. Clark used different techniques to incorporate Irene into each piece of the series, such as photo transfer to cotton fabric using various processes: dying, printing, and silk screening fabrics. “As an artist, I’m not only interested in the techniques and materials of art quilting, but also the psychological, spiritual and physical therapeutic benefits of hands-on crafting.”

Veralisa Hunter is a jeweler, sculptor and fiber artist whose work is reflective of self-acceptance and responsibility for one’s culture. After realizing that she had been submerged into a culture that was not her own, she was reborn when she came into the knowledge that she was part of a great people: “. . . I discovered that many things represented me and yet some did not. You can see that struggle in my work . . .”

Giovanna Imperia designs and creates art jewelry by using a technique known as kumihimo. “In my work, I strive to provide unique visual and tactile experiences to the wearer by combining braided fiber, beads, mixed media and metal.” After working in the corporate world for years, Imperia now studies, teaches, and practices kumihimo full time.

Kay Nguyen is a ceramic artist who finds herself “an extension of the clay artisans before” her. Nguyen has been involved in the ceramic field mostly as an educator, but her goal is to become a full time studio artist. While in residency at HCCC, Nguyen focused on a new body of work dealing with objects that reference the idea of containment.

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Gika Rektor is a fiber artist that creates nuno felt. Rektor’s studio is bursting with colorful piles of wool that she magically turns into felt. “Watching fibers evolve from raw materials into an endless array of useful and/or beautiful objects is a delightful experience.”