Virginia Derryberry

Virginia Derryberry is a Professor of painting and drawing at the University of North Carolina at Asheville and has been an actively producing and exhibiting artist/teacher for over 20 years. Highlights of her accomplishments include over 40 solo exhibitions and a 2004 artist residency in Auvillar, France.   Her paintings are in the public collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, the Morris Museum, and The Asheville Art Museum among others.

Judy Langille

Judy Langille graduated from SUNY at New Paltz with a B.S. in Art Education and continued on to get her Masters degree at Queens College while teaching art to elementary school children.  When she was raising her children she began to study traditional quilt making and later taught it to adults. She left full time teaching to concentrate more intensely on her evolving interest in contemporary fiber arts. Today she lives in New Jersey, where she works extensively with fabric dying and printing, using thermofax and silkscreen techniques. Her work has been juried into many national and regional shows, including Quilt National 2003 and 2007, Visions.