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		Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts Class Schedule
	Publication Design	"In the pre-digital era, we had to be inventive and used the Xerox machine to proof images from assemblages and collages of skeins of thread and yarn, sewing tools, woven fabrics, and textile remnants—even the tissues of French doll clothing patterns.

The Xerox collages were made by an assortment of artists as well as myself, which I then pasted directly into the "mechanical" artwork (another pre-digital technology). In turn, the artwork was photographed by the platemaker for offset reproduction. We produced some very compelling artwork in this manner for the ongoing Fiberworks Class Schedules and the Artists in Fiber: 1981-1983 NEA Winners catalogue," said David Curry. Fiberworks, which subsequently closed in 1987, supported and nurtured all endeavors in the field of textile arts, whether traditional or avant garde, and encouraged quality, liveliness, and diversity which lives on in the achievements of many of its notable alumni to this day: Nancy Belfer Trude Guermonprez Sheila Hicks Mildred Howard Laurie Kovak Gyöngy Laky Tina Martin David Ireland Jan Janeiro Sylvia Seventy Weldon Smith Maureen O'Hara Sheila O'Hara Nance O'Banion Elizabeth Tuttle Katherine Westphal Anne Wilson and others...