Deb Deaton is an award-winning fiber and mixed-media artist whosework blends fabric, thread, and a variety of unconventionalmaterials into expressive, soulful creations. A graduate of theColorado Art Institute (1978), Deb began her artistic journey in oil,watercolor, pen and ink, charcoal, and mixed media. Thirty yearsago, she turned her love of quilting into a new path—fiber art—andlaunched DJ’s Fiber Arts (DJ is short for her given name, Debbie Jo),where she has become known for pushing boundaries with hermotto: “No Rules, Just Art®.”