Her fiber interests include weaving, screen-printing on fabric, surface design, and material manipulation utilizing a sewing machine. She has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Marketing from the University of Georgia, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Textile Design from Rhode Island School of Design. In her work, Crenshaw believes that beauty is in the layers of stitches and in the decorative embellishments and forms they create. She feels compelled to free the stitches from the fabric so one can experience the embroidery as an independent textile.