TSA’s 2023 Colloquium

(re)Imagining Futures: Shifting Methodologies 

(re)Imagining Futures: Shifting Methodologies 
Textile Society of America Colloquium Series
October 30, 2023
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. EDT
Location: Zoom

The Textile Society of America is delighted to announce its 2023 colloquium (re)Imagining Futures: Shifting Methodologies. This event will highlight collaborative and equitable modes of research, art-making, and community building within museums and academic spaces. 

(re)Imagining Futures: Shifting Methodologies is intended to serve as a catalyst for establishing and articulating professional ethics for textiles scholarships grounded in anti-racism, equity, and accessibility.

Join us for an exciting program featuring a keynote conversation, invited presentations and peer-juried emerging work by members.

The Colloquium will be recorded and shared with all who register beforehand. The recording will expire after a set amount of time.

Keynote Conversation
The keynote conversation will focus on decolonization and equitable practices within cultural institutions. In conversation:

• Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty, Director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
• Dr. Christine Checinska, Senior Curator of Africa and Diaspora Textiles and Fashion at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
  
  

Presentations
Presentations that reimagine multiple pathways for engaging with communities by:

Dr. Steve Nash, Senior Curator of Archaeology and Director of Anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

The Avenir Conservation Center and a New Future for Textile Conservation in Denver

The Department of Anthropology aspires to curate the best understood and most ethically held anthropology collections in North America. We seek to document and understand the human communities of the Rocky Mountain region and beyond through study of their material cultures while adhering to the guiding ethical principles of respect, reciprocity, and dialogue. Through ethnology (the study of recent and living peoples) and archaeology (the study of ancient human cultures), the department investigates human diversity in our rapidly transforming world and shares with the public the excitement of the discipline’s art and science.

Dr. Bharti Parmar, Visual Artist and Co-editor of Vol. 4 Color Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles

Khadi, an exhibition about Lancashire, India, and cotton

Dr Parmar will be speaking about her exhibition for the British Textile Biennial 2021 in which she explored the links between cotton, the north of England and Indian independence.  Khadi refers to homespun cloth promoted by Gandhi as a protest about English rule in India. It also refers to a thick cotton watercolour paper made by hand in India.  Parmar sourced Khadi paper from India made from recycled cotton t-shirts to reveal themes of global connections, fast fashion, labour and colonialism.

“Warp Speed” Panel

This event will highlight collaborative and equitable modes of research, art-making, and community building within museums and academic spaces. It will conclude with a peer-juried “warp speed” panel that highlights the research and studio practices of  new and emerging members in TSA’s Lab, an online space for textile folx to share their ideas and get feedback—for more information about the Lab, please click here.
 
“Warp Speed” presenters:

• Amanda Raquel Dorval, Disfraces Rebeldes: Reimagining Puerto Rican Identity Through a Practice-Led Project on the Interconnections Between the Vejigante and the Islamic World
• Nader Sayadi, Global Cross-cultural Dressing and Syrian ‘Abas in the 19th century
• Ana María Zamora Moreno (she, they), Trama, nudo y texto: Puentes entre oralidad y bordado/ Weft, knot and text: Bridges between orality and embroidery
• Heather Schulte, Stitching the Situation: a Collaborative COVID Tapestry

Registration Sliding Scale

$5 Student Registration

$10 Member Registration (must sign in to get access)

$15 Non-Member Registration

$25 Class or Group Registration – One Zoom Link

TSA values access for all who sustain the diversity of textile practice and scholarship. For individuals seeking assistance regarding financial and/or other accessibility, please contact info@textilesocietyofamerica.org. 

This program was made possible by the generous support of the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation. Please consider supporting TSA and its commitment to the diversification of artistry, scholarship, and research within the textile field by making a donation.