We have gathered a list of events and exhibitions that we thought our membership would find exciting. Some venues have been able to reopen for in-person visits, but please make sure to check their websites before going as each venue may have different protocols or revised opening hours. There also continues to be a growing selection of online events to participate in or recordings to enjoy after the event.
Reopenings:
- Bisa Butler extended to September 6, 2021
- Monet and Chicago extended to June 14, 2021
Renwick Gallery: Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitation 2020
The Cleveland Museum of Art: Fashioning Identity: Mola Textiles of Panamá, on view until January 9, 2022
Exhibitions:
Erica Wilson: A Life in Stitches hosted virtually by Winterthur Museum
Collect Art Fair: From 26 February; craftscouncil.org.uk
The Bayeux Museum- View the Bayeux Tapestry online
Textile Heritage Exhibition: Colcha Embroidery: www.nmfiberartscenter.org/colcha-exhibit
Lectures:
Contemporary Voices- Artist Talk Series co-presented by TSA and the George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum, see link for Spring schedule. Recordings will be posted if you miss the live event.
When Art and Science Collide: Virtual Gallery Talk with Lindsay Olson- Fermilab Artist-in-Residence 2014-1015, March 9, 2021, free via Zoom see link to register
Wax Print, Film Screening by Aiwan Obinyan, April 7, 2021
Mitchell Lectures Series hosted by the Fibers and Material Studies Department at SAIC, ongoing throughout Spring 2021
- February 25 – NANCY FELDMAN: Contemporary Textile Imagery in Peru’s Amazon
- March 4 – NIA EASLEY: And I hold power
- March 11 – ELLEN ROTHENBERG: visual noise + good trouble, the labor of citizenship
- March 18 – JOHN PAUL MORABITO: A Queer Tangent in Tapestry
- March 25 – JUDITH BROTMAN: Of Strange and Wondrous, Odious and Erotic Occurrences That You Should Know (if you are here)
- April 1 – JOSÈ SANTIAGO PÈREZ: Haptic Choreographies
- April 8 – JERRY BLEEM: Still: Shaping an Exhibition
- April 15 – ALEXANDRIA EREGBU: Surrealist Threads: Mapping the Marvelous in African Cloth
- April 22 – KELLY KACZYNSKI: Stages, (a)way from nouns
- April 29 – ANDREA PETERSON: In a Years’ Time
- June 3rd – STACIA YEAPANIS: Daily Practice and the Sacred Secular
- June 10 – MELISSA LEANDRO: Poco a poco, little by little
- June 17 – NELLY AGASSI: Innermost
FIT Museum’s Fashion Culture Online Programs, ongoing throughout Spring 2021:
- Stella Jean in Conversation with Valerie Steele, Feb. 25, 6pm
- Embodied Sense-ability, March 11, 6pm
- Jazz and Twenties Black Glamour, March 25, 6pm
- Alexander McQueen: Unseen, April 15, 6pm
Jane Austen & Co’s “Race and the Regency” series, lectures and recordings throughout Spring 2021
Virtual Events from the Fowler Museum at UCLA- recordings available for past events.
Lectures from the Textile Museum, series ongoing
Textile Talks from the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, on going
Moving Forward: Re-defining the American Textiles Conversation hosted by Karen Hampton, recordings
- Conversation #1: Bukoka Koiki, Stephen Hamilton, Queen Allotey-Pappoe
- Conversation #2: Lauren Austin and Dawn Williams Boyd
- Conversation 3: The Road to Self with Camille Brewer
- Conversation #4: Precious Lovell
Textile Talk: Natural Dyes and the Natural Dye Garden, presented by SDA, recorded
Resist Dying with Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, Sang Made Erass Taman, and Abduljabbar Khatri, recorded
TSA Members Teaching Workshops:
Ugandan Barkcloth with Lesli Robertson, a virtual workshop hosted by Selvedge, April 10-11, 2021
Introduction to Weaving with Amy Putansu at Arrowmont, May 30- June 4, 2021
Say It Softly with Jeana Klein at Penland, June 6-17, 2021
Flights of Floral Fancy with Kat Diuguid at Arrowmont, July 25-30, 2021
Plants: Muse and Material with Hillary Waters Fayle at Penland, August 22-28, 2021
Mark your calendar:
British Textile Biennial, October 2021: https://britishtextilebiennial.co.uk/
Judy Chicago: A Retrospective at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, August 28, 2021- January 9, 2022
Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco, October 23, 2021- April 24, 2022
Sheila Hicks at The Hepworth Wakefield: 27 November 2021 – May 2022
Lubaina Himid at Tate Modern, 25 November 2021 – 22 May 2022
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2022
Great resources for Those of Us Balancing Virtual Learning and Life:
After School Art Club from the Whitney Museum of American Art
Secondary Learning Resources from the Courtauld
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Article by Kat Diuguid, TSA News Editor.
