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MLH 2023 Conference Exhibit Awards Won by AAFG Members

  • Anne Flora – 1st and 2nd place in Fashion for “MartiGrau Cocoon” and “Sunset Tunic”
  • Anne Flora – 2nd place in Fashion Accessories for “Fall Splendor”
  • Anne Flora – 1st and 2nd place in Fiber Art for “In Ancient Times, She Rose from the Sea” and “Beaver Island”
  • Anne Flora – Viewers Choice for “Sunset Tunic”

May 2023: Congratulations to AAFG member Carolyn Michaels, who wrote an article about long-time AAFG member Millie Danielson’s 100th birthday. It was published in the Summer 2023 issue of Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot.

March 2023: Congratulations to AAFG member Jenny Schu. Her work “Leaf Me Alone” was featured in Handweaver’s Guild of America’s Spring 2023 issue of Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot magazine. https://weavespindye.org/ssd/

December 2022: AAFG Member Betsy Szymanski has passed Level 1 of The Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.’s Certificate of Excellence and is certified in Technical Skills. https://weavespindye.org/

MLH 2022 Conference Exhibit Awards Won by AAFG Members

  • Kathy Zasuwa – 3rd place in Fiber Art for “Escape”
  • Marla Smith – Honorable Mention in Functional Fiber for “Spring Surprise Scarf”
  • Jenny Schu – Honorable Mention in Functional Fiber for “Evil Eye Bangle”

March 2022: AAFG member Paul McKenney had an article published in the Spring 2022 issue of HGA’s publication Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot. https://weavespindye.org/ssd/

MLH 2021 Conference Exhibit Awards Won by AAFG Members

  • Bonnie Kay – Grand Prize and 2nd place in Fashion for “Collage Vest #2”. 
    Honorable Mention in Fashion for “Collage Vest #1”.
  • Tammy Renner – HGA Award and 1st place in Fashion Accessories for “Smalandsvav Scarf #3”
  • Jeanne Norman Sarna – 2nd place in Fiber Art for “Window of Life”
  • Nancy Hedberg – Two Honorable Mentions in Functional Fiber for “Blue Waves Pillow” and “Sea Glass Towels”
  • Jenny Schu – Honorable Mention in Fiber Art for “Leaf Me Alone Mask”

April 2021: AAFG member Helen Welford had three pieces juried into the International Feltmakers Association exhibition: feltmakers.com/online-exhibition

August 2020: AAFG member Helen Welford’s piece “Looking Out Through the Cracked Lens of My Kaleidoscope”was accepted into the juried International Feltmakers Association virtual exhibit “Kaleidoscope”. https://www.feltmakers.com/online-exhibitions/

January 2020:  AAFG member Olga Austin’s weavings will be exhibited in a show called “Indigo Exhibition 2020” to be held January 18-26, 2020 at Bunka no Mori Event Hall in Bunkanomori Park, Tokushima, Japan. Olga will post updates on her Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/juneloomhw


MLH 2019 Conference Exhibit Awards Won by AAFG Members

  • Helen Welford – 1st place in Fashion for “Michigan and Santa Fe Poncho”
  • Bonnie Kay – 3rd place in Fiber Art for “The Rose Path to Asymmetry is Paved with Windows and Crosses,” 3rd place in Fashion for “Half Hearted Harlequin Vest,” and People’s Choice in Placemat Challenge for “In the Forest”
  • Anne Flora – Viewer’s Choice and Honorable Mention in Fashion for “Dancing with Flames Ensemble”
  • Barb Schutzgruber – Honorable Mention in Fashion Accessories for “Follow the Yellow Brick Road Poncho”
  • Marla Smith – Honorable Mention in Fashion Accessories for “Rhapsody in Red Stole”
  • Jeni Schu – Honorable Mention in Fiber Art for “Leaf Me Alone 2”

April 2018: For the second time in a row, AAFG member Pat Holly won Best of Show for “Turkish Treasures”—this time at QuiltWeek in Paducah, Kentucky. Her quilt will now be in the permanent collection the National Quilt Museum, also located in Paducah, Kentucky.


March 2018: AAFG member Pat Holly won Best of Show for “Turkish Treasures” at QuiltWeek – Lancaster, Pennsylvania.


March 2018: Carol Fleischer, Sandy Kunkle, Mary Valerie Richter, Trish Ritchie, Susan Trovillion, Karen Turckes, and Sharon Weltner, members of the Fiber Art Design Group, an offshoot of the AAFG, hosted their first group exhibit “Fiber by Design: 7×7” at Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor. Each artist responded to 7 design challenges in square format and then each artist chose one challenge to create a larger work.


MLH 2018 Biennial Exhibit Awards Won by AAFG Members

  • Jane E. Blacquiere Best in Show and 1st Place in the Fiber Arts for “Ascension”
  • Jill Ault Honorable Mention for “Samaras”
  • Jennifer Gould Honorable Mention for “Utter Confusion: Which Way is Home”
  • Jenny Schu  Honorable Mention for “Double Deco Wing Bangle”
  • Kathy Zasuwa Honorable Mention for “Maui Memories”

MLH 2017 Awards won by AAFG Members

  • Helen Welford – 2nd place in Fashion Garment for “Nouveau Richesse” robe
  • Bonnie Kay – Honorable Mention in Fashion Garment for “Purple Pizazz” vest
  • Bonnie Kay – Honorable Mention in Fiber Art for “Port Holes on Restless Sea of Color”
  • Susie Krage – Honorable Mention in Fiber Art for “Downtown”
  • Madeline Navarro – Honorable Mention in Fiber Art for “A Citizen of Nature”

MLH 2016 Biennial Exhibit Awards won by AAFG Members

  • Susie Krage – Best in Show “I Love Detroit: Heidelberg Quilt”
  • Sharon Weltner – Fiber Art 3rd Place “Detroit: Gateway to Utopia”
  • Jennifer Stafford – Honorable Mention “Summer Sunflowers”
  • Kathy Zasuwa – Honorable Mention “Ancient Graffiti: First Exhibition”
  • Jill Ault – Honorable Mention “This Way”
  • Millie Danielson – Honorable Mention “Ruach (Breath)”

AAFG Members Awarded at 2015 Michigan League of Handweavers Conference:

  • Anne Percy Knott – Honorable Mention in Fiberart for Chromatikat
  • Helen Welford – Honorable Mention in Fashion Garments for Swingtime Coat
  • Jenny Schu – 3rd Place in Wearable Accessories for Gypsy Leaf Bracelet
  • Giesla Bosch – Honorable Mention in Wearable Accessories for Sunset Shawl
  • Jeanne Norman Sarna – Honorable Mention in Wearable Accessories for Coral Seas Necklace

    AAFG Members Shine Again at MLH 2013 conference

  • Millie Danielson – Honorable Mention for “Pearly Plax”
  • Anne Flora – Honorable Mention in the Fashion Show for “Mme Recamier Enters Her Salon Ensemble”
  • Joyce LaVasseur – Complex Weavers Award and 2nd Place in Fiber Art for “Ooh La Latte”
  • Madeline Navarro – Honorable Mention in Fashion Accessories Exhibit for “Little Fishies”
  • Jenny Schu – Best of Show for Fiber Art and People’s Choice Award for Fiber Art for “She Can’t See the Forest Through the Trees”; 2nd Place Fashion Accessories Exhibit for “Bamboozled Bangle”; Judge’s Choice Award for “Chevron Bangle”
  • Marla Smith – Judges Choice in Fashion Show for “Tunic”
  • Helen Welford – 3rd Place in the Fashion Show for “Allison’s Honeymoon Gown”
  • Ellen Willson – Honorable Mention in Fashion Show for “Rags to Wearable Vest”

June 2013: AAFG member Jenny Schu won a People’s Choice Honorable Mention for her work Small Leaf Panel in Blue at Fiber 577 in Perrysburg, Ohio.


April 2013: AAFG member Pat Holly took home the Benartex Best Miniature Award at American Quilter’s Society Quilt Show in Paducah, Kentucky for her quilt TINY TIGERS 2.


November 2012: AAFG member Pat Holly took 2nd place honors at the world’s largest quilt show: The Houston International Quilt Festival. Imagining India won 2nd place in the Innovative Applique Quilts category, and Tiny Tigers 2 won 2nd place in the Miniature Quilts category.


November 2011: Fiber art by AAFG members Jill Ault (Koi Gathering and Where We Moored the Boats), and Lois Bryant (The Ground Beneath My Feet Diptych and The Ground Beneath My Feet Triptych), became part of the permanent collection at the new Mott & Von Voigtlander Hospitals of the University of Michigan.


AAFG Members Shine Again at MLH 2013 conference

  • Millie Danielson – Honorable Mention for “Pearly Plax”
  • Anne Flora – Honorable Mention in the Fashion Show for “Mme Recamier Enters Her Salon Ensemble”
  • Joyce LaVasseur – Complex Weavers Award and 2nd Place in Fiber Art for “Ooh La Latte”
  • Madeline Navarro – Honorable Mention in Fashion Accessories Exhibit for “Little Fishies”
  • Jenny Schu – Best of Show for Fiber Art and People’s Choice Award for Fiber Art for “She Can’t See the Forest Through the Trees”; 2nd Place Fashion Accessories Exhibit for “Bamboozled Bangle”; Judge’s Choice Award for “Chevron Bangle”
  • Marla Smith – Judges Choice in Fashion Show for “Tunic”
  • Helen Welford – 3rd Place in the Fashion Show for “Allison’s Honeymoon Gown”
  • Ellen Willson – Honorable Mention in Fashion Show for “Rags to Wearable Vest”

AAFG Member Lois Bryant recently sold 5 Jacquard weavings to the University of Michigan Museum of Art for permanent display at the Mott Children’s Hospital (currently under construction) in Ann Arbor. Lois’ work is also featured in a number of upcoming 2011 shows. Check her website for details. www.loisbryantstudio.com


Marion Marzolf’s first historical novel was published by the Swedish American Historical Society of Chicago in the fall of 2010. Shuttle in Her Hand is the story of Lisa Lindholm, a young weaver who leaves her family in Sweden and ventures alone in 1931 to the United States. Over the next three decades she builds a life as a naturalized American citizen and becomes an accomplished weaver and teacher of weaving. Her experiences range from Rättvik and Stockholm, Sweden, to an Appalachian mountain school, Chicago, Grand Rapids and the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan. She navigates the challenges and changes in weaving in modern America to follow her dream.


Bonnie Kay’s Writing on the Wall won 1st place in the Enchanted: Yardage exhibit at the Handweaver’s Guild of America’s 2010 Convergence in Albuquerque. Three additional AAFG Members were also accepted in exhibits at Convergence: Anne FloraThe Nymph Callisto in HGA’s Walk in Beauty: Fashion exhibit; Jennifer Stafford’sGarden Magic and Marion Marzolf’sNight Skyline had work in HGA’s Eye Dazzlers: All Fiber Techniques exhibit.


Bonnie Kay and Anne Flora have work in 1000 Artisan Textiles by Sandra Salamony and Gina Brown. Publisher: Quarry Books (April 1, 2010). This stunning gallery–style volume includes some of the finest examples of contemporary textiles and fiber art being made today. The collection includes wearable art and couture, fashion accessories, soft furnishings and vessels, tapestries, display art, and quilts. Full–color photography features both full views as well as close–ups.

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