Gail Skudera (b. in Hackensack, NJ) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Weaving and Textile Printing in 1975 and her Master of Fine Arts in Fiber in 1981 from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL. She is a recipient of the Visual Artist Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Decentralization Art Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Skudera is a member of The National Association of Women Artists in New York and Massachusetts.