About the Artist:
About the Artist:
Wendy Barton-Miller was interested in art from an early age, and now as an adult, Wendy's life is all about her art. Her art background began in porcelain and polymer clay. She owned a studio and taught porcelain for several years in Centerville, Ohio, before venturing into the fiber art of rug hooking.
She learned the basics of how to rug hook in 1999. Quickly picking up the technique of rug hooking, she soon turned to drawing and hooking her own designs into rugs for her home. Through the encouragement of friends and fellow rug hookers, Wendy started selling her rug designs as patterns for other rug hookers to hook in 2001, under the business name of The Red Saltbox™. She now carries two lines of patterns, her original primitive folk art line and her newest line of antique inspired rug designs.
Wendy relocated from Ohio, back home to Indiana in 2008. She now resides in an old historic home circa 1852, The Robinson House, located in Attica, Indiana. Wendy travels occasionally to teach seminars specializing in hooking in wide cuts, and teaching students how to give their rugs the "aged" appearance. But she much prefers to have small seminars at her studio, where students receive more personalized instruction one-on-one. She hopes to have the studio set up and ready for visitors later in 2009, inside The Robinson House in Attica, Indiana.
Wendy is an accomplished rug hooker, has written numerous articles for Rug Hooking magazine and other publications, and is a member of ATHA.
Awards and recognition:
Sauder Award for "Ohio Bicentennial" rug - 2003
ATHA "Rhapsody in Rugs" exhibit - Honorable Mention for "Ohio Coverlet"
rug - 2005
ATHA "Rhapsody in Rugs" exhibit - "The Collection" rug 2005
Sauder Award for "Ohio Coverlet" rug - 2005
Various ribbons for many rugs at Sauder exhibit in 2003, 2004, 2005
Celebrations XV for "The Collection" rug - sponsored by Rug Hooking
Magazine - 2005
Celebrations XVI for "Ohio Coverlet" rug - sponsored by Rug Hooking
Magazine - 2006
Celebrations XVII for "Pumpkin Thyme" rug - sponsored by Rug Hooking Magazine - 2007
Celebrations XVIII for "1842 Watercolor Fraktur" rug - sponsored by Rug Hooking Magazine - 2008
Celebrations XIX - Judge - 2009
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Celebrations XVII
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Celebrations XVIII
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Celebrations XV
"Rhapsody in Rugs" Exhibit 2005
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Celebrations XVI "Rhapsody in Rugs" Exhibit 2005
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