TSA posts a variety of opportunities in the textiles field including information on national and international symposium calls for papers, jobs and internships, workshops, and calls for art. Submissions are posted at the discretion of the Textile Society of America. If you have an opportunity to share with the TSA community, please visit our Submit an Opportunity page.
Call for Abstracts
Open Call: Textile Talks
Deadline: Sunday April 28, 2024
Open Call for Textile Talks at the 2024 Contextile Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, 08th September, Auditorium CCVF, Guimarães | Portugal A fundamental part of Contextile’s programme is based on the reflection and debate of ideas, setting Textiles and their growing importance and prominent presence in artistic events in the context of international contemporary art. […]
Call for Proposals – Necessary, Useful, or Desirable: Histories of Furnishing Fabrics
Deadline: Saturday June 01, 2024
Histories of furnishing fabrics—their production, categorization, and use—are often folded into other topics (history of upholstery, history of interior decorating, history of printed textiles, etc) but are not often studied in their own right. As a result of the ongoing exploration of a significant corpus of furnishing fabrics in the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, […]
Call for Articles on Embellishment
Deadline: Thursday September 12, 2024
Inviting submissions for the Embellishment volume of Encyclopedia of World Textiles (Bloomsbury publication). The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles will offer, in 700 articles, 3 million words, and 3,500 images, the definitive resource on textiles across cultures and time. Drawing upon archaeology, anthropology, history, art, design, and the social sciences as well as materials science […]