Valori Wells is a printmaker, photographer, a professional quilter, a fabric and pattern designer, and the co-owner of The Stitchin’ Post in Sisters, Oregon. Trained as a photographer, Valori experimented with printmaking while she attended Pacific Northwest College of Art, and eventually made her way into the world of surface design (in addition to everything […]
Throughout this series, I’ve featured many printmakers who took their first printmaking class when they were working toward their art degrees. But there are other stories, too – of people who didn’t become artists until they’d worked in non-creative fields, who cobbled together an art education through evening and weekend classes, and who developed their