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Kay Stanis is an internationally known fiber artist, designer, Master Craftsman, and Certified and Graduate Certified Teacher of the Embroiderers' Guild of America, Inc. (EGA) and Kurenai Kai Traditional Japanese Embroidery. Her embroideries have received numerous awards and have been shown on the covers of Kurenai, Inspirations, NeedleArts, and NeedlePointers. She exhibits her needlework widely and is a juried member of the Fiber Forum group and is the recent recipient of EGA's Diana Grossman Memorial Award for Excellence in Needlework. She has recently won a Judge's Choice award

 She has studied internationally: in Paris at the L'Ecole de Broiderie D'Art, at The Royal School of Needlework in England, and she was invited to Japan to study with Master Saito at Kurenai Kai. Her travels are always interlaced with textile exhibits and workshops with internationally known teachers in the US and abroad the most recent being Australia and China. 

She teaches and lectures on silk and metal embroidery in the US and abroad and has written and is presently teaching three correspondence courses for EGA. Today her responsibilities for EGA include: Chairman of the Master Craftsman in Silk and Metal, chairman of the Certified Teacher Graduate Program. She is also Treasurer of Fiber Forum, EGA's exhibition group. 

She has been and will been on the faculties of American Needlepoint Guild national seminars, Callaway School of Needlearts, Embroiderers Association of Canada, EGA national and regional seminars, Koala Conventions, South Australia Embroidery Conference, Embroidery 2000 (New Zealand), and many independent groups.

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