Course Instructors
Gail Harker, L.C.G.I.
Gail lived and taught City & Guilds Creative Studies in Britain for 20 years, and was, for many years, an External Verifier for the City & Guilds Institute. Gail has taught and continues to teach all of the Certificate Courses in Design and Embroidery at the La Conner center. She has written five books on embroidery, with her latest, Creative Machine Embroidery, recently published in both Britain and the US.
Richard Box
Richard is a highly respected, influential artist, embroiderer, teacher, and author. Trained at the Hastings School of Art and Goldsmith’s College of Art, London, his work has been widely exhibited and published. Over the past 12 years, his Drawing for the Terrified course has proved extremely popular, and is one of a number of courses he teaches throughout England. He is the author of 5 bestselling books.
Barbara De Pirro
Barbara is a Painter, Photographer, Sculptor, and Multi-Media Artist who has exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally. She regularly exhibits in solo and group exhibitions in Washington state and has been involved in Public Commissions in the U.S. She travels extensively as a Golden Artist Colors, Inc. Lecturer.
Dana Webb
After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Cornish College of the Arts, Dana Webb became interested in textiles and experimented extensively with fiber reactive dyes. After a chance visit to Earthues, Michele Wipplinger’s natural dye studio in Seattle, she fell in love with natural color and apprenticed with Michele for five years, learning and teaching about natural dye extracts. She has conducted classes and workshops on immersion dyeing yarns and fabrics, indigo techniques and surface design. She continues her own active studio practice and loves to share what she has learned about the colors of the earth.