Pamela Husky of McAlester embraced her and recycling and planting initiatives, all while passion for art while an undergraduate at Central involving local students. In 2015, Keep Oklahoma State University, now the University of Central Beautiful chose Husky as its Champion Volunteer, Oklahoma (UCO), earning a BA in Ceramics. She the highest award offered for an individual. It is then earned a Masters her love and sense of of Liberal Studies in Art responsibility for the from OU with her thesis environment and her “Artworks in the Alfred community that shines P. Murrah Building,” through in her the basis for a General fiber art. Services Administration In her felt-making catalog. Much like her and tapestry work, mentor Stephanie Husky utilizes water, Grubbs, Husky was hand-dyed wool, and drawn to not only create silk threads to create fiber art but to share her painterly landscapes of knowledge with others. the environment she She served ten years as works so diligently to an Artist-In-Residence protect. By carefully for the Oklahoma Arts arranging layers to Council, through which create background, she taught weaving and middle ground, and felt-making to nearly foreground, along 10,000 students across with her profound Oklahoma. In 1996 she observation of light, began teaching felt- form, shadow, texture, making and drawing and movement, Husky at UCO, and became delivers magnificent the Assistant Chair images. Her fiber art and Director of the has received many 3D Design Program. awards, including: the Husky’s excellent American Tapestry work in education has earned her numerous Alliance Award, the Handweavers Guild of awards throughout her career. Additionally, her America Award, the Oklahoma Visual Arts commitment to community extends beyond the Coalition Awards of Merit, and the People’s classroom. In 2007, Husky helped establish “Team Choice Award from the Intermountain Weavers Up to Clean Up,” an environmental nonprofit Conference. Her work is also included in the in Eufaula, Oklahoma. For a decade, the group Oklahoma State Art Collection at the Oklahoma engaged in local environmental clean-ups State Capitol. Stephanie Grubbs, Between the Light and Dark, Double Half Hitch Knots of Cotton Thread and Waxed Linen, 10 x 7 ½ x 2 ½. Photo courtesy Stephanie Grubbs. 66