ATA Award Winner: Connie Lippert

– as reported in Tapestry Topics, Winter 2005, Volume 31 Number 4

ATA Award of Excellence was given to Connie Lippert  at the "Fiber Celebrated 2005" exhibition in Durango Colorado, for her tapestry Blue.  Connie learned to weave in 1975 as an art major at Auburn University and since 1999, her focus has been wedge weave.  She teaches, lectures and is an artist-in-residence in South Carolina public schools. Her work is in museums, corporate, academic and private collections, and published in magazines and the Fiberarts Design Book 7.