August 2025 Member of the Month

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Born and raised in northern Minnesota, Beverly Walker as a young girl was taught the Scandinavian needleworks of embroidery, crocheting, and knitting which birthed her love of fiber arts. Through the years her skills abounded in interior design accessories and fiber art for the wall, as well as in the media of oil and watercolor painting, silk painting, and coiled sculptural basketry. In the 90's she studied weaving at the University of Kentucky and then went to England to study advanced pictorial tapestry weaving at West Dean College.

Walker has earned many awards in several media, and a recent tapestry was juried into an international exhibit. Her artworks are found in a Paramount Pictures movie, on a Mercy Ships vessel in Africa, and in several corporate and residential collections. Her passion for fiber art is felt in her classes and workshops as she loves to see her students proudly proclaim, "I created that !"  Walker and her husband, a woodworker, have lived in 9 states but recently made a retirement relocation to Mooresville.