If the classes I want aren't available, I volunteer to bring them to town. I recruited Convergence to Tampa in '08 then organized 50 community exhibits around the region, served as workshop chair at SAFF in 2011 - recruiting and organizing 114 workshops, and am current President of the Southeast Fiber Forum - planning our 2013 conference at Arrowmont April 4-7, 2013. An organizer by nature and profession, I take workshops in order to make time to weave, and occasionally teach. And i'm working with Robyn Spady to plan a Weaverville Rendezvous - a coast-to-coast event to promote the profession of handweaving - on Oct 6th 2012.