2025 - 2026 Calendar
September 9, 2025
Anthony Barta
Lecture - "Being a Man in the Quilting World”
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October 14, 2025
Kathy Forzley
Lecture - "Inspired by Nature: A Feltmaker’s Journey"
Kathy Forzley is a contemporary fiber artist whose work includes wet felting, hand and machine embroidery, landscape art quilts, and other fiber art techniques. Kathy’s passion for artistic design combines rich textures, vibrant colors and found objects inspired by her love of nature and botanical themes. Her work includes wearable art, home accessories, 3-D sculptural work and wall art. Kathy finds working with fiber, especially wet felting, provides a meditative tactile experience and countless possibilities for creative expression. Adding embellishments provides the opportunity to further enhance her work by adding texture and dimension to the felt with stitching.
Kathy’s presentation will explore her journey as a feltmaker, sharing sources for her inspiration, discussing the process of wet felting, and highlighting some of the feltmakers that have influenced her work.
November 11, 2025
Helen Agius-Andreae
Lecture - "Fused Glass Fundamentals”
Helen Agius-Andreae is the co-owner of Fired & Fused in Farmington. She will review the process of creating a fused glass project, share examples of her own works, and talk about the history of Fired & Fused.
Since 2007, Helen has had a love for fused glass. As the previous owner of a paint-your-own pottery and glass fusing studio, she has taught many students how to create their own fused glass creations while inspiring them to pursue their artistic dreams. With her husband and business partner, she participates in local juried fine art shows, teaches at several area art centers, and leads on-site corporate team-building events.
December 9, 2025
Creative Card Making
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Create handcrafted greeting cards for NTGM, then make some for yourself. Our NTGM corresponding secretary will send these handmade greeting cards to cheer up and support our members!
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Blank cards will be provided.
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Create 3 cards for NTGM, then make some for yourself.
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Feel free to bring any fabric, ribbon, scrapbooking supplies and glue for this project. The more the merrier!
January 13, 2026 via Zoom
Catherine Redford
Lecture - "Lessons I Learned While Quilting”
With a trunk show that starts with the first quilt she made 25 years ago, Catherine Redford will take us on an inspiring and informative journey as she shares her philosophy of quilting. Describing her style as “eclectic”, she is best known for originality and innovation in the development of projects that span a broad range of fiberarts.
“Quilting is my outlet of choice. I share my love of quilting as an inspiration to others. I have found that as I pass on the knowledge I have gained on my journey, I learn more tips and techniques that take me still further.”
February 10, 2026 via Zoom
Margarita Korioth
Lecture - "The Odd Couple – Paper and Fabric in Quilts”
Paper with fabric? This peculiar blend can generate interesting works of art. In this informative lecture, Margarita Korioth will share her journey of combining paper and quilting, and offer tips on how to incorporate mixed media into your art. At the end Margarita will do a demo in one of her original techniques.
Margarita Korioth is a quilt artist, designer, teacher, and lecturer based in Collierville, Tennessee, whose passion is to experiment and discover new ways to convert cloth into art. Her recent work features surface design such as dyeing, stamping. silk screening, and stitching with a focus on lettering on fabric. Margarita’s work has been featured in national and international publications including the Spring 2025 edition of Quilting Arts Magazine.
March 10, 2026
Phyllis Cullen
Lecture - "Quilting in Paradise”
Join Phyllis Cullen on an enchanted journey through her magical Hawaiian island and studio and see many examples of her colorful fabric art side-by-side with the scenery, activity, people, flora, and fauna that inspired each piece.
Phyllis believes “it's all about the color!” and her goal is to recreate the color and light and bring out the story, and the soul, of her subject. Photography, drawing, painting, mixed media, fabric, wool roving, beads, clay... It's all good!
Phyllis is the Hawaii regional rep for SAQA, and she has shown, sold, and taught all over the world. She now gets to live and work on the beautiful Hamakua coast of Hawaii's Big Island, where she enjoys sharing her studio and knowledge with others both in-person and via Zoom.
April 14, 2026
Michelle Detering
Lecture - "More Contemporary Watercolor Adventures”
Nature-inspired watercolor and mixed media artist Michelle Detering returns to NTGM to share with us her most recent artistic journey. Although she works in a variety of media including watercolor, photography, mixed media, and collage, watercolor is her primary medium. Her work offers a contemporary take on watercolor that resists the traditional constraints of the medium, emphasizing fluidity and flow and demonstrating a balance between looseness and control. She chooses the best medium to channel the story she is trying to tell about the natural world, hoping that through her art people will be inspired to see the magic and beauty in nature.
May 12, 2026
Karen Turckes
Lecture - "An Overview of Fabric Alteration Techniques”
Karen Turckes is a fiber artist and teacher who has worked with textiles all her life. She is a graduate of the Clothing and Textiles program at Michigan State University, as well as Jane Dunnewold’s Art Cloth Mastery Program in San Antonio, Texas.
Karen will discuss techniques based on the Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi – the aesthetics of finding beauty in the imperfection. Her lecture will describe and explain the process of deconstructing, reconstructing, and altering fabrics to use in collage. Techniques include layering fabric fragments, hand-stitching, mark making, abrading, dissolving, and the use of several commercial products.
