Deva North is a quilter, puppet builder, painter, fiber artist and arts educator in Louisville, Kentucky.

With an emphasis on synergy and community involvement, North’s work includes quilts, tapestries, all-age puppet performances, handmade interactive oddities, and collaborative paintings. North, as a Lead Artist in the Mary Shelley Electric Company, was awarded a 2022 Jim Henson Foundation Grant for her puppet design and fabrication for Time & Energy: A Puppet Show about Thermodynamics and Rabbits. North also received a 2018 Jim Henson Foundation grant for CREATURE: A Puppet Frankenstein Adaptation. She received a 2021 Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, a 2022 Artist Professional Development Grant from the Great Meadows Foundation, and had a residency at Loretto Motherhouse with the Kentucky Foundation for Women in 2025. North collaborated on art exhibitions in the Parklands Of Floyds Fork (Woodland Garden permanent creekbed mosaic) and Bernheim Forest (2019 ReCONNECT art installation). She has made puppets and masks with students at Frazier History Museum, Mercy Academy of Louisville, and Redmoon Theater of Chicago. She currently works as an art teacher at a preschool for children with special needs.