will ensure that the legacy of fiber art and the introduced me to skills of sewing and cutting generations of women behind it will continue in folded accordion paper when I was 5 years old. Oklahoma well into the future. Stephanie Grubbs, My lifelong affinity with fiber was her gift. Early Pamela Husky, and Julia Marks Blackstone influence in the arts transforms our lives. Then, participated in a Q&A to discuss their inspirations, as a 19-year-old nursing major, I passed the methods, and love of fiber art: windows of the weaving room on the path to Anatomy Lab. I went on to study weaving and HOW DID YOU DISCOVER FIBER ART? graduated with a B.A. in Ceramics. Julia Marks Blackstone: “Discover” is a strange Stephanie Grubbs: I discovered fiber art while word in this context. I’d been working part-time living in Kansas, where I saw weaving by Marilyn in the ceramics lab at OBU for several years Grisham and other fiber artists at art festivals in when Professor Janie Wester — one of the Wichita. I bought a book and a small hand loom all-time great weavers here in Oklahoma — and began to weave little tapestries. I took them suggested I learn to weave. She was considering to an art festival and was referred to an art gallery her eventual retirement, but didn’t want the in Hutchinson, Kansas. I saved the money I made fledgling fibers program at OBU to be dropped and bought a floor loom. I was on my way! for want of an instructor. My focus at that time Pamela Husky: My grandmother, Lorene was on ceramics, painting, and drawing, but I Saunier, loved to sew, crochet, and quilt. She said I was willing to learn. I wanted that job, too! Stephanie Grubbs, Melting Pot, Stephanie Grubbs, Interrupted, Double Half Hitch Knots of Cotton Thread and Waxed Linen, Double Half Hitch Knots of Cotton Thread and Waxed Linen, 10 x 5 ½ x 5 ½. Photo courtesy Stephanie Grubbs. 9 x 6 x 7. Photo courtesy Stephanie Grubbs. 8