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Welcome To Fiber Art by Carola
Multimedia Contemporary Fiber Art
5th GEN Indigenous Geechee Natural Dye Practitioner

  • Reflections On Being a Teaching Artist

    As difficult as it can be to attend a university, teaching at one is harder, especially working as an adjunct. But, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m blessed with a dream job teaching at a small Christian school nestled around a beautiful park. I drive through rural Eastern North Carolina to Squirrel Park… Read more

  • Crying The Blues Away

    After crying for twenty hours because I’m going to be an orphan soon, I surrender all. I’m at the end of my bloodline because I’m dirt and river water. I’m Toisnoit Skaru:re to Contentnea Creek, a Gatekeepers off-spring that hid in plain sight for 300 years. I’m this black earth where people from Fort Neyuheru:ke… Read more

  • Jesus Is My One & Only BFF

    At last I can say, “I surrender all!” I’m my mother’s only child. Most of my adult life has been lived alone, no children, never pregnant and never legal married. My deepest desire has always been to get married and have a family of my own. Well, it never happened! Over the years, my alone-ness… Read more

  • Thanksgiving Day::Reflections

    Thanksgiving Day 11.26.2015 The World is at war! Instigators are trying to bring about Armageddon. Locally, people seem angry and resentful. The land is saturated with exploitation. The world treats the land like it treats cultural others. And yet, God guides me to and from Toisnot/Contentnea to Chowanook beside Lake Vann to share learning with… Read more

  • Going Backwards

    Blogger isn’t working, so for Thanksgiving Break, I’m migrating all of my online journal entries to WordPress.  This site will now be the portal for my teaching. Read more