Madeleine Harwell (b. 2004, Sarasota, FL) is a Studio Art and Advertising major at Florida State University and is a wholesale needlepoint designer established in the industry for five years. She has also created a body of traditional 2-D work that explores various media. 

               Harwell became one of the youngest needlepoint designers in the industry in 2018 as she debuted at the Spring Market in Orlando. Her work has been featured on the back cover of Needlepoint Now Magazine in 2020, Needlework Retailer, and The Tale of Three Stitchers in the American Needlepoint Guild Magazine. Outside of the needlepoint industry, Harwell has participated in many community projects including a mural project at Sarasota Middle School painting positive quotes that were accepted into the Embracing our Differences exhibit by students from the school. She also has painted commercially at local restaurants including Madfish Grill where she has worked since the summer of 2021.