McKenna Linn is an accomplished artist and author who makes art from her land home in Bradenton, FL, and soon (once again) from a boat home... this time aboard "Journey," a trawler that will do the "Great Loop," i.e., up the Atlantic coast from Florida, across the Great Lakes, down the mid-continental rivers (including the Mississippi, Tennessee, Tom Bigby), around the Gulf of Mexico, and back to Florida. This trip will take the better part of a year, beginning in March 2009. Plans include teaching classes at selected cities along the route, including art quilts, sewing-machine maintenance & repair, freemotion quilting, slash fabric, bag making, and anything else a guild or sewing group might wish to arrange for. Please feel free to contact me if you have any interest in arranging a class for your group! mckenna@mckennalinn.com

McKenna's art-to-wear and quilt art have been internationally recognized in competitions and publications, including "Slash Coat" which won the national grand prize in the Sewing With Nancy Challenge sponsored by Oxmoor House, "King Me," (72"x72" wall quilt) which won Best of Fiber in the Members Juried Show at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts (MN), and "Walkabout Vest & Pants" which was juried into the Quilt Expo wearable-art fashion show in Den Haag, Netherlands.