Fiber Art by Carola
Studio

Carola Jones, Teaching Artist

Fiber Art by Carola creates one-of-a-kind wearable art rooted in Indigenous Geechee knowledge from Georgetown, SC, through Mattie Randolph and Mary Burnette, and my mother's father's grandmother on Johns Island. I honor their teachings as a fifth-generation indigo and natural dye practitioner. My goal is to transform cloth into a vessel for story, resilience, memory, and cultural continuity. Each piece invites the wearer into a living tradition that honors the past while speaking to the present.

Current Work

Land 2 Plant 2 Medicine Cloth

Mercy Healing Fall Open Studio & Tour

October 12 to December 21, 2026

Open Studio & Holiday Marketplace
Historic Mercy Hospital Building
Studio 104 • 504 East Green Street
Wilson, North Carolina
October 12 – December 21, 2026

Carola Jones, Teaching Artist, invites visitors into a working textile studio where Indigenous, Geechee, and sustainable fiber traditions come alive through demonstrations, storytelling, and hands-on creativity. Guests can watch work in progress, learn the cultural history behind each piece, shop one-of-a-kind handmade gifts, and join affordable creative activities throughout the holiday season.As a teaching artist, I have taught Indigenous Fashion Arts at fashion weeks in Toronto and Calgary, Canada, and at venues in the United States, Europe, and Scandinavia. Now, I’m sharing what I learned as a child on Daniel Hill and East Wilson at the historic Mercy Hospital building, where I was born.

What Will You Experience?

Hand-Dyed Scarves & Shawls for Ceremony, Comfort, and Everyday Beauty | Explore one-of-a-kind hand-dyed silk head wraps & Pow Wow Dance scarves, indigo medicine head rags, and Indigenous honor shawls and blankets. Plant and animal fibers naturally dyed with indigo, madder, marigold, turmeric, onion skins, and/or cochineal. All "Binding Up The Blues" and dye traditions use ancestral Indigenous Southeastern Woodlands and Gullah Geechee techniques.

"The Blues expressed on cloth as a handmade wearable."

Maker Mondays

Crocheting Grief Healing Support Group

Crocheting Grief Healing is a relaxed Brown Bag Lunch gathering where people experiencing grief, loss, or life transitions can come together around the comforting rhythm of crochet. This is a creative grief-support gathering where conversation is optional. Inspired by Mattie Burnette Randolph, who shared crochet with patients at Mercy Hospital in the early 1930s. She pushed me out of my momma in an upstairs room of Mercy Hospital, and imprinted my life with creative hands, including crochet.

Art From Antiques Tuesdays

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Lunch Break | 1:00 PM – 3:00 AM | Front Porch Art
Open Studio | Publish the weekly blog on Fiber Art by Carola.

Working Wednesdays

Textiles Thursdays

Off-Site Studio Production Day @ Y-GIG | All Day | Recorded LIVE On YouTube | Sewing Streetwear Fashion | Upscaling Old Clothes | Embellishing with Found Objects | Embellishing with Beads & Embroidery

Fiber Fridays

Off-Site Studio Production Day @ Y-GIG | All Day | Handmade Christmas

Handmade Community Saturdays

Make & Take Projects

About Carola

A poet celebrating the joy of creating handmade objects that carry memory, love, grief, and hope.

Carola Jones is an Indigenous mixed-media fiber artist, educator, and community teaching artist whose work reconnects people with ancestral textile traditions and land-based creative practices. Drawing on Tuscarora, Seminole, and Geechee Gullah cultural heritage, her workshops explore the healing and storytelling power of handwork through stitching, natural dyeing, quilting, and fiber arts rooted in relationships with land and memory. She is a fifth-generation practitioner of indigo, natural dyeing, sewing, quilting, crochet, and embroidery.With more than 25 years of experience in digital media and arts education, Carola blends traditional craft knowledge with contemporary teaching methods that engage both youth and adults. She regularly leads community workshops, after-school STEAM textile programs, and cultural skill-sharing events that emphasize sustainability, creativity, intergenerational learning, and community,As a teaching artist, she has taught Indigenous Fashion Arts at fashion weeks in Toronto and Calgary, Canada, and at venues in the United States, Europe, and Scandinavia. Now, she is sharing what she learned as a child on Daniel Hill and East Wilson at the historic Mercy Hospital building, where she was born.Her studio practice and teaching approach align with gatherings where participants come together to learn earth-centered skills, share ancestral survival knowledge, and build resilient communities connected to nature. 🔻🔻🔻 View Samples Below 🔻🔻🔻

Contact Me

Annual Open Studio | October 12 to December 21, 2026
Where History, Conversation & Handmade Meet“Come for the art. Stay for the stories.
Leave carrying a little piece of the healing.”

Fiber Art by Carola STUDIO is the place where the backstory lives, the source of inspiration behind everything I create. It’s where ideas are rooted, stories are remembered, and textiles are transformed by my hands in honor of DJ, Mis’ Minnie, Myyat (Mat Randolph), her mother, Mary, Grand Mere, Ma, Mammy, Fawn (Mis’ Anne), and Fatima.From October 12 through December 21, 2026, my studio becomes more than a place to see and purchase art. It becomes a gathering place to share the lessons I carried forward from my childhood on Daniel Hill and in East Wilson: lessons learned from my mother, grandmothers, godmother, and other ancestors who taught me to make something beautiful and useful with what was already in our hands.Visit the Mercy Healing Fall Open Studio in the Historic Mercy Hospital building, where artist Carola Jones creates one-of-a-kind medicine cloth inspired by Indigenous Geechee traditions. Hear the stories, touch naturally dyed textiles, explore local history, and experience the living traditions woven into every piece.

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Welcome Gift for New Subscribers to Contact List >> As a thank-you for connecting with Carola Jones, Teaching Artist, you'll receive a 10% discount after you submit your contact information through this form. You will receive a welcome email with your discount code. You may use your discount once on any regularly priced item, including handmade fiber art, medicine cloth creations, make-and-take projects, workshops, and special events during the Mercy Healing Fall Open Studio (October 12 to December 21, 2026). The discount applies to in-person purchases at the studio and online orders during the open house season. I'll send complete details and redemption instructions to the email address you provide.

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