Creativebug is excited to co-sponsor a powerful webinar with the Craft Industry Alliance, focused on how to maintain your creative spark. Whether you are running a craft business or you’re a person looking to integrate more creativity into your daily life, this 2-1/2 hour FREE webinar is sure to inspire.

Recorded on Thursday, May 5, 2022

Keynote Speaker

Anna Maria Horner

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Anna Maria Horner was brought up in a creative home and has pursued a life in handcrafts with the goal of surrounding herself with the work of her own hands. This pursuit has included authoring books, publishing sewing and needlework patterns, and designing fabric collections to inspire quilt makers and crafters worldwide since 2005.

She is the founder and proprietor of Nashville’s Craft South, a supply and workshop space.  And since 2018 she is the creative director behind Conservatory Craft, a collaborative fabric and craft kit brand.

Artist Panel

Maintaining Your Daily Practice

Moderated by Courtney Cerruti, Editor-in-Chief of Creativebug

REBECCA RINGQUIST

Rebecca Ringquist is a Portland-based visual artist and designer. She learned how to embroider in college in a feminist art history class, and has been inspired by the history of American needlework ever since.

Approaching the technique of embroidery as a way of drawing, Ringquist has taught hundreds of people new ways of making marks on fabric through classes and workshops around the country. Her design company, Dropcloth, sells Ringquist’s hand-drawn designs that are printed as embroidery patterns, all ready to hoop and sew.

E BOND

e bond makes digital spaces by day, handmade books by night, hangs out with trees on weekends and writes something close to poems in the spaces between. Under the studio name roughdrAftbooks—created in 2003—she makes one-of-a-kind artists books, printed pieces, and abstract drawings that merge and blur the boundaries of art, craft, design and poetry.

e holds a BFA in graphic design and art history from Moore College of Art & Design and an MFA in Creative Writing and Book Art from Mills College. Her work has been published in 500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form and 1,000 Artists’ Books: Exploring the Book as Art.

JOY TING

Drawing has been a part of Joy Ting’s life ever since she can remember. All through school, she found herself drawing and lettering for classmates and teachers. After a career in elementary education (nine splendid years of teaching art!) Joy now works as an artist and teaches art to people of all ages.

Throughout the day and in the wee hours of the morning (she is a mom to two wonderful boys), you can find her drawing or painting to continue her daily practice.

ANNA MARIA HORNER

Anna Maria Horner was brought up in a creative home and has pursued a life in handcrafts with the goal of surrounding herself with the work of her own hands. This pursuit has included authoring books, publishing sewing and needlework patterns, and designing fabric collections to inspire quilt makers and crafters worldwide since 2005.

She is the founder and proprietor of Nashville’s Craft South, a supply and workshop space.  And since 2018 she is the creative director behind Conservatory Craft, a collaborative fabric and craft kit brand.

LISA SOLOMON

Lisa Solomon received her BA in art practice from UC Berkeley, her MFA from Mills College, and has been a professor in the Bay Area for almost 20 years. Her installations and artworks have been exhibited and collected worldwide.

Author and illustrator of several books including A Field Guide to Color – her follow-up Color Meditation Deck will be released in July 2022. She is profoundly interested in bridging the gaps between being creative, living creatively, and making a living as a creative.