The
Fibre Art Network (FAN) is a co-operative of self-defined art
quilters based in Western Canada. The co-operative was first conceived in
the spring of 1997 by British Columbians Pat Crucil and Gail Hunt and then
organized later that year by Gail. The group is committed to promoting
quilting as an art form and each other as artists.
FAN members come from the Western Canada - British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba,
the Yukon and the Northwest Territories - and
share their learning and news in a monthly newsletter and through this
website. It is a long distance meeting of minds that spans artistic
challenges as well as geographic ones.
Members also meet and
exhibit in community-based subgroups and for an annual retreat where they
connect and share as they stretch their comfort zone and take their art to
a new level.
FAN membership includes
emerging fibre artists, teachers, authors, judges and award winning quilt
artists. Many have shown their work nationally and internationally and
some have won both national and international recognition for their work.
The cooperative engenders fellowship of like-minded friends and celebrates
differences as well as common interests.
