About Our Fabric Art Design Team

Mettje Swift began designing and fabricating art banners and opened her Studio in 1985 in Mancos, Colorado. Through the years her crew has been made up of a wide variety of crafts people from diverse backgrounds.

The fabric of the beautiful banners and the projects through the years, blend with the stories and the fabric of the lives of those who put Mettje’s designs together and realize the finished product.

Mettje Swift

Mettje is the artist/owner of Banner Art Studio. She is the designer, the pattern developer and the bender of the stainless steel armature that becomes the frame of the sculptures

Mason Davis

Mason Davis is the welder for the stainless steel tubing armatures per the design and specifications provided by Mettje. The patterns are drawn from the armatures.

Assemblage of suspended fabric mobiles in Banner Art Production Studio

Aaron Noller is Banner Art’s main fabricator and man of all skills. That means he cuts, pieces, sews and finishes. Also known as the ladder man, because he scales tall ladders to reach the ceiling during the assembly of the suspended sculptures.

Mona Syring

Mona Syring is the Bookkeeper/Office Manager

Marie Salazar

Marie Salazar  has sewn for Banner Art for twenty years. She cuts and pieces, but the sewing machines are her command.

Lynne Toepher

Lynne Toepher is a part-time subcontractor accepting projects that require her ability to cut very small and complicated pieces as in this logo banner for the Rock group “Trainâ€

Interesting projects we have done

Animal Costumes

Animal Costumes

Animal Costumes

White Tiger Mascot banner

Animal Costumes

Animal Costumes

White Tiger Mascot banner

Animal Costumes

Peregrin Falcon Mascot banner

“Striae†5 part balanced mobile hangs from one point in an atrium in Cincinnati, OH

Coyote costume The animal costumes were part of the Legend Lodge project for Buell Children’s Museum in Pueblo, Colorado. It is part of the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center.

Peregrin Falcon Mascot banner

“Striae†5 part balanced mobile hangs from one point in an atrium in Cincinnati, OH

Coyote costume The animal costumes were part of the Legend Lodge project for Buell Children’s Museum in Pueblo, Colorado. It is part of the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center.

Bear Lodge with Mettje

Let's Get Started with project planning.

Please call or click the button below and fill out the contact formto request a quote. Mettje will give you a call back. Banner Art Studio makes original and new designs just for you. The final work will highlight your organizational objectives and enhance the building’s architectural style.