Organizations Filed Purposes:
SEFAA's mission is to (1) provide seminars, classes, workshops, and other educational events on fiber art topics, (2) to sponsor fiber art exhibitions, (3) to provide facilities for the promotion and appreciation of the fiber arts, (4) to sponsor special events open to the public focused on the fiber arts, (5) to promote innovation and excellence in the fiber arts, (6) to preserve fiber art skills and traditions, (7) to educate the public about fiber arts, and (8) to be a regional fiber arts resource.
The Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance (SEFAA) supports and promotes the fiber arts through educational programming, exhibitions, and events. We are a regional resource for individuals, organizations, businesses, and educators and are open to anyone with an interest in fiber art. We connect the fiber arts community and celebrate and perpetuate all fiber art forms, encouraging and celebrating creativity one thread at a time.
Events including bi-weekly open-studio sessions (Lunchtime Fiber), monthly book club meetings, monthly Stitching Time gatherings (started in September), a Pet Bed Sewing Bee event for our Blanket Love Project, Mask Making for Northside Gwinnett Hospital, Pop Up Shops (August and November), and two new 2020 projects - our Pandemic Banner Project and our Kimono Project.
SEFAA Center rentals include multi-purpose space rentals, wet studio rentals, and studio rentals. Individuals and organizations rent the large multi-purpose space at low rates for textile-related meetings, classes, and workshops and they rent our unique, public wet studio for dyeing, felting, surface design, and other wet textile processes. Our two artist's studios are leased on an annual basis and include private entrances, sinks, internet and utilities, and round-the-clock access.
Education includes (1) monthly program meetings on a wide variety of textile topics from The Business of Being Creative to Gumchas: Hand-Woven Scarves from Bengal India, (2) two- to four-hour classes, including Monday Make Night Sessions (Easy Yarn Earrings, Macrame, and Embroidery), Beginning Sashiko, Make-a-Mask-Along, White to Wow, Beginning Eco Print Dyeing, Plying for Spindle Lovers, and Goddess Dolls and (3) one- to five-day workshops, including A Tale of Two Vats (Indigo Dyeing), Beginning and Advanced Wool Embellishment, Crochet Lab, Variations on a Draw: Beyond Wool, and Riffing on Tradition.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Suzi Gough | Executive Director | 29 | $0 |
| Betsy Stark | Secretary | 0.5 | $0 |
| Nancy Thompson | Treasurer | 4 | $0 |
| Katrina Stone | President | 0.25 | $0 |
| Swaantje Sass | Director | 0.5 | $0 |
| Jolie Fainberg | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Gale Evans | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Kim Wall | Director | 2.5 | $0 |
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