Nicole Kralj
Secretary
Austin, Texas

Ann McEldowney
Vice Chair
Austin, Texas

William "Tudey" Teten
Treasurer
Austin, Texas

Virginia Hurd
El Paso, Texas

Carol F. Ikard, MA
Founder | Chairmen
Austin, Texas

Staff

Carol F. Ikard, MA
Founder | Chair | Executive Director

Carol Ikard, Executive Director of the Texas Museum of Fiber Arts, has a venerated interest in the fiber arts and loves the feel of yarn alive in her hand. She has studied fiber arts and has run to museums to experience the likes of the Unicorn tapestries and the Raphael tapestries of the Vatican museum and many other renown exhibits in the world.

Reading about another state with a Fiber Arts Museum, she wanted Texas to have a venue for Texans to see the wonderful fiber works by Texan artists and those who work with natural and man made fibers from Texas. She wanted Texas to have a dedicated museum and for people all over Texas to view the fiber arts. So, she began the Texas Museum of Fiber Arts.

Carol’s philosophy is that “Creativity requires you believe and trust it exists in everyone, especially yourself. You may feel creativity is an illusive butterfly and that everyone has a net but you. However, creativity is more than an illusive butterfly. Creativity is the caterpillar of change. Creativity is the slow, methodical caterpillar that has to cross the street.  With luck, it won’t be squished by a Mack truck of a negative remark and will instead be able to climb a mammoth tree and, in time, take gorgeous flight.”  To the creation of the museum, she has applied this philosophy.

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