BIO:
Michele Micarelli is a certified rug hooking teacher whose main objective is to unleash creativity. The classes she teaches are full of storytelling, imagination exercises, and laughter. She has been a rug hooker since 1991 and prefers using 3, 4 and 5 cut wool and linen for lots of detail.
She started rug hooking because of her childhood memories of rugs her father hooked. Her other loves are her family, the making of Sailor’s Valentines (seashell art), beading, doll making, painting, collecting, steampunk art, and gardening.
Michele is proud to have served on the A.T.H.A. Region 1 board of directors for ten years. She is past President of the Northern McGown Teacher’s Workshop. She served as a judge for 15 years of Craft’s Adventure in New England and is pleased to have had her rugs appear in many editions of Celebration of Hand-Hooked Rugs and has also been a judge. She has been inducted into the Celebrations Hall of Fame. Her rugs appear in books by Linda Coughlin, Jessie Turbayne, Mary Sheppard Burton, Amy Oxford and Rae Harrell. She has also been in several issues of Rug Hooking Magazine with articles that featured her dying skills and rugs made with imagination.
A teacher at many workshops, she has taught at Off the Ocean, Shelburne Museum, The Highlands Rug School, The ATHA Region 1 Rug School, Rugs by the Sea, the Burlington Ontario Rug School, Cambria Pines, The Star of Texas, Little River School, The Green Mountain Guild School, Rug Hooking Week at Sauder Village, and The Rug Hooking Guild of Nova Scotia, among many others.
She was honored by The Green Mountain Guild in the “Strong Woman” show and has received the “Silver Hook Award” from the Newtown Historical Society Rug Show for her devotion to promoting fiber arts. She was named “Hooker of the Year” By the Rug Hooking Museum of North America in Queensland, Nova Scotia where she is also a director at large.