Kelly Clark

Kelly Clark is a painted canvas designer of over 15 years. She is an exciting, vibrant personable teacher who brings whimsy and grace to her stitching. Each piece she stitches will challenge every stitcher. Her Stitch Guides are chock full of detail and diagrams. She is best known for her command of Needlepoint Stumpwork.

CANVAS 2025

Robin King

Robin King studied needlepoint for years with Amy Bunger, and now teaches and writes custom stitch guides for customers nationally. Robin has a degree in Prosthetics and worked for 27 years building custom prosthetic devices until her love for the textile design called her into service. She has won ribbons for her excellence in needlepoint, and continues to lead her students into exploring the excitement of the modern needlepoint creations. Robin produced the "How'd You Do That? series of needlepoint DVDs. She also designs and manages Web sites. Robin contributes to the Needlepoint Study Hall blog, and has written hundreds of available stitch guides.

CANVAS 2025

Tony Minieri

In Tony's world, color is everywhere, it takes on many different forms and works its way into all that he does.

As an internationally-known needlepoint teacher with Level I Certification from The National Academy of NeedleArts, Tony instructs for the American Needlepoint Guild, Inc., The Embroiders' Guild of America, The National NeedleArts Association, needlepoint shops, guilds, and private groups. His body of work encompasses teaching and designing, and he is in much demand for creating stitch and thread guides and for teaching his project classes.

You'll often hear Tony singing in his rich baritone voice. If you are lucky, you'll be treated to one of his many stories that are accompanied by his equally rich laughter that fills the room. It's a treat to learn from Tony Minieri as he shares, entertains, teaches, and supports your efforts to be a better stitcher.

CANVAS 2025

Brenda Stofft

Brenda has been designing and stitching hand painted needlepoint since 1983. She has always enjoyed the challenge of creating dimensional pieces. Her inspiration comes from her vintage collections and her love of nature. She resides in southern Indiana with her husband David Reiners.

CANVAS 2024

Julia Snyder

Julia Snyder grew up in her local needlepoint store where her mother, Patsye Hardin, worked. She started stitching at the age of 4 and has not stopped since. Julia has won awards in the State Fair of Texas as well as ANG. She has also designed and taught classes for ANG, EGA, Needlepointers, Destination Dallas Market, TNNA Market, as well as many shops across the country. Julia has also been involved in judging at the State Fair of Texas for several years and been a part of the Beaux-Arts Auction at the Dallas Museum of Art. She has been teaching for the past 30 years, since she and her mother opened Key Stitches, which closed in 2009. Along with stitching and teaching, Julia stays busy writing stitch guides for designers and clients. Her books have been a huge success as well as her traveling and teaching all over the USA. Her books include the following: 176 Amazing Stitches, Backgrounds and Such, Categories for Needlepoint, Darn Fillings, Everything Blackwork is New Again, First Stitch First, Great Layers, Have Stitch Will Travel, iBargello, Just Stitches I Use, Keys to Canvas Embellishment, Love It or Rip It, Master List, & Next Level Stitches which includes QR codes for each stitch. Along with writing her books, Julia and her husband, Mickey Snyder, own & more, a wholesale needlepoint company where she designs and paints canvases. Along with the canvases they carry 2 lines of threads, 5 types of beads,3 sizes of flat satin sequins, and beading thread that comes in 36 colors. After closing Key Stitches, Julia has taught from Portland Oregon to La Jolla California to Hawaii to Montgomery Alabama to Atlanta Georgia to Cape Cod to Altamonte Springs Fl and many points in between. Over the past years Julia has helped Leigh from The Needle Bug in Montgomery run The Bug Boutique in Callaway School Needle Arts, has taught her 4-day embellishment class at Callaway Garden School of Needle Arts, and CANVAS, a needlepoint adventure, and taught many classes at CANVAS, which began January 2018, has been teaching all over the USA, and helping her husband Mickey with the & more business.

CANVAS 2025