Susan L. Feller
Self taught Textile artist, concentrating in rug making techniques including hooked, punched, needle felted, and dimensional collage, rug pattern designer, business owner Ruckman Mill Farm BA in Art & History UMass/Boston
Studio open by appointment, Augusta, WV 304-496-8073
Art for sale, rug hooking supplies,workshops
www.RuckmanMillFarm.com email rugs2wv@yahoo.com
Events Coordinator Fiber related symposiums, exhibits, promotions.
Marketing Director for traveling exhibit: Art Rugs: the ART of Playing Cards http://www.theartrugs.com/
Art Gallery Owner 1987-2006, Church Door Gallery, Califon, NJ,
Coordinated ‘Get Hooked on Califon’ 2005 town art awareness and community fund raising project
EXHIBITS:
Beyond Rugs!, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME 2011-12 www.FarnsworthMuseum.org
Hooked on Loops, Butternut Galler, Montrose, PA 2010
Out of the Loop: Innovations in Hooking, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT 2009
Japanese / American Exhibit III -STRIPES, Tokyo, Japan, Woodbridge, NJ, New Albany, IN, 2009
Warm and Wearable, Ice House Gallery, Berkeley Springs, WV 2008
Fraktur Motifs Explored in Hooked Rugs, Mennonite Heritage Center, Harleysville, PA 2008
Wild, Wonderful Fibers- traveling WV fiber artists 2006-2007
Art Rugs: the ART of Playing Cards 2004-20009, “Five of Spades” United States galleries
One Loop at a Time, Ice House Gallery, Berkeley Springs, WV 2006
Solo Exhibit Sept 2006, 2008 MountainMade Gallery, Thomas, WV
JURIED EXHIBITS:
“The Best of West Virginia” Tamarack, Beckley, WV Merit Award for “My Mountain State” Summer 2011
WV Juried Exhibition: Inspired Historic Places 2011 Charleston, WV State Museum “Winter in West Virginia”
West Virginia Biennial Art Exhibition 2007 “Nurturing Friendship” Merit Award
Newtown Hooked Rug Show 2007 Juried Class “Iconic Liberty” and “Fall Homestead”
Textile Center of Minnesota, 2001 Hooked in the 21st Century, “Adam and Eve”, Judge Mary Sheppard Burton
Celebrations X Rug Hooking Magazine 2000 “Blowing Peonies” ,Celebrations XVII 2007 “Iconic Liberty”, Celebrations XXI 2011, “Mountain Treeline”
Iconic Liberty by Susan L. Feller
Juried Member:
TAMARACK, Beckley, WV www.tamarack-wv.com
MountainMade Gallery, Thomas, WVwww.mountainmade.com
Organized / facilitated Annual Art=Fiber, international independent study fiber group since 2006
Curator: Fraktur Motifs Influence Contemporary Craftsmen Schwenkfelder Museum & Library, Pennsburg, PA 2009-10 and Shenandoah Valley Hooked Rugs VMRC Harrisonburg, VA 2010
Out of the Box Comes mixed media artists MAC ICE HOUSE, Berkeley Springs WV 2009
Fraktur Motifs Explored in Hooked Rugs, Mennonite Heritage Center, Harleysville, PA 2008
The Color Purple, Shelburne Museum, Vermont, Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild 2007
Twelve Days of Christmas, Shelburne Museum, Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild 2006
Presenter Framing Fiber Tips, TIGHR Tri-Ennial, Louisville, KY Sept. 2009
Judge or Juror for fiber and art exhibits:, Judge:Celebrations XV – 2006 Rug Hooking Magazine, Hooked Rug Exhibit Sauder Village, Archbold OH 2005;
Juror of selection: ACE Riverfront 2006, Connexions Gallery, Easton, PA , HCAC Juried Show, Romney, WV 2008
Freelance writer . Articles written for Rug Hooking Magazine, Hampshire Review, Romney, WV; Hunterdon Democrat, NJ; Pieceworks Magazine, ATHA Newsletter; TIGHR Newsletter Hooking Matters
Author Design Basics for Rug Hookers, Dec 2011 published by Stackpole Books
Work published in: Best of West Virginia Calendar 2012, Tamarack Foundation; Contemporary Hooked Rugs and Modern Hooked Rugs, Linda Rae Coughlin, Schiffer 2006, 2007 ; Hooked on Rugs, Jessie Turbayne, Schiffer 2006; Hooked Rugs Today, Amy Oxford, Schiffer Publishing 2004 and 2006 editions; Hooking on the Hill, by Nancy Butts Thompson, U of Georgia Press 2005; By Hand, Lark Books 2001
Profile and project in Colonial Reproductions and Design, Stackpole Books 2005
Included in articles Floored, by Hildreth York , Surface Design Journal Winter 2006, Zodiac Collection Rug Hooking Magazine, J/F 2012; Reader’s Gallery: Susan Feller by Linda Rae Coughlin, RHM N/D 11; Barbara Ebersol Fraktur Flower RHM S/O 11 The Color Purple, RHM J/F 08; Patternmakers, RHM, M/A/M 05; ART RUGS,RHM, M/A/M 04; Patriotic Rugs, RHM, M/A/M 02; RHM 20th Anniversary Edition, Dear Beginner, RHM S/O 02;
Affiliations and Offices :
President of TIGHR, the International Guild of Handhooked Rugmakers 2006-2009 , www.TIGHR.net
Founder/President Mountain State Fiber Artists, ATHA Chapter 111, Romney, WV 2006-2008 www.MountainStateFiberArtists.org
Conducts Workshops at Studio or on location. Prospectus/references on request See Workshops Page
patterns, ArtWools, supplies, commissions, hooked rugs/textile art, workshops
PO Box 409, Augusta, WV 26704 info@ruckmanmillfarm.com
304-496-8073
