2024 Symposium Agenda

12:45-1:00pm EST 

Opening Plenary

1:00-2:30pm EST 

Keynote Lecture: Wafa Ghnaim, Messages in Tatreez Motifs: Decoding the Language of Palestinian Embroidery in the Diaspora

1. Heather Kerley, 23 Extinct Redwork Quilt Project: Repairing Relationships with our More-Than-Human Kin, Stitch by Stich
2. Jessie Fraser, Till the Tide: affective movement in site-specific installation
3. Amy Dorie, Burning Fear

Session Chair: Hadley Jensen

Speakers: Lillia McEnaney, Lynda Teller Pete, Barbara Teller Ornelas, Kevin Aspaas

Session 1C

TSA Listening Session: Community check-in

Session 2A 

Individual papers: Textiles and Community

1. Isabella Amstrup, Weaving Club
2. Susanne Cockrell, Stitching Time into Place: The San Juan Ridge Tapestry project
3. Helen Trejo and Angela Becerril, Solidarity Dividend with US Wool and Community Engagement to Address Socioeconomic Inequities

Session 2B

Individual papers: Fashioning Nationalism

1. Keiko Okamoto, Bridging Traditions and Innovations in Japanese Fashion – Kimono & Wedding Dress after WWII to the present
2. Nallely Rangel Vázquez, A city between fibers, threads, textiles, and seamstresses: establishments in Mexico City (1900-1910)
3. Brielle Pizzala, Weaving Modernity: Silk Tapestries in the Nanjing Decade

Session 2C

Panel discussion: Grainline: Sewing an Expanded Field

Annica Cuppetelli, Abbie Miller, Jeanne Jeanne Medina Le

6:00-7:00pm EST

Virtual Social Gathering

7:00-8:00pm EST

Keynote Presentation: Artists Up Close – Virtual Artist Studio Visit with Nastassja Swift

9:30-11:00am EST

Keynote Presentation: Artisanal voices: Sustaining Hand Embroidery Legacy of India, organized by Dr. Vandana Bhandari

Session 3A

Individual papers: Collaboration, community and care

1. Nikita Shah, Fursat: Crafting Community, Rest, and Care Through Textiles
2. Suzanna James, Caring Cloth Praxis: Ethics of loss, Practices of Remembering
3. Theda Sandiford, Free Your Mind

Session 3B

Individual papers: Textiles and digital systems 

1. Esteban de la Torre, Material Sentience – Crossmodal Textile Interactions 
2. Katya Oicherman, Textile as Cultural Technology: The Evolution of Robert Rauschenberg’s Jammers, 1975-76 
3. Maria Ida De Ioanni, Incursive Heritage and Textile Practices: New Forms of Gathering and Preserving Knowledges

Session 3C

TSA Listening Session: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

Amber Clifford, Keidra Daniels Navaroli, Lynda Teller Pete, Sariah Park 

Individual papers: Collections

1.  Lori Benson, Chiapas Maya Project – Weaving Community
2. Ann Frisina, An Origin Story: Creating the Minnesota Historical Society Costume Collection 1920-1974
3. Danielle Lasker, Textile Resource Center: On Generosity and Growth of the Collection

Session 4B

Panel Discussion: Needle Methodologies: Mending as Remembrance

Chair: Savneet Talwar

Hannah Brancato, Thea Canlas, Sarita Kvam, Aram Han Sifuentes

Session 4C

Individual papers: Textile Economies

1. Sanniah Jabeen, The Handmade Ajrak in the Age of Mass (Re)Production
2. Joan Hart, Queen Victoria, the Sultan, the Adventurer: Weaving Strands of the History of Kashmir Shawls 
3. Isabel Monseau, Copyright for Imitations: Looking at the Registered Design Book of William Stirling and Sons

Session 4D

Individual papers: Artist Projects, Practices of Care

1. Anna Boutin-Cooper, Weaving Intergenerational Joy: Honoring Ancestral Legacy with “Grandma’s Placemats”
2. Tim Abel, Five Quilts as Claims about Collage, Teaching, Learning & Being
3. John Fifield-Perez, Queer Horizons and Love Letters in the Archive

Session 5A

Individual papers: Recovering Fashion Histories

1. Laura Johnson, “Within the reach of everyone” Tracing the global strands of Herrman, Sternbach & Co’s imitation furs
2. Alysha Kupferer, Refashioning History: A framework for studying systems of dress in response to textile technologies
3. Celine Khawam, Henri de Châtillon (1906-1972): A French Milliner In Mexico City

Session 5B

Individual papers: Textiles in War and Armed Conflict

1. Joanna Dermenjian, Quilting as to War
2. Khamal Patterson, Kite Tales: The Strings That Connect and Cut
3. Mariko Nagai, Public Patriotism, Silent Dissent: Women and the Making of Senninbari in Wartime Japan

Session 5C

Organized Session: Expanding the Frame: Shifting and Reweaving Canadian Fibre Arts

Session Chair: Yolande Krueger

Speakers: Mackenzie Kelly-Frère, Timothy Long, Michele Hardy, Julia Krueger

1. Weaving at the Horizon: Encounters with Fibre Art on the Canadian Prairie
2. Julia Krueger, Folded and Inside Out: A textile informed approach for studying Saskatchewan ceramics and weavings of the 1970s and 1980s,
3. Body, Pattern, Fate, Materiality: Unweaving Kantian Aesthetics
4. Choices and Challenges: Curating Prairie Interlace

4:30-5:30pm EST

Keynote Presentation: Artists Up Close – Virtual Artist Studio Visit with Ai Kijima

Session 6A

Individual papers: Materiality and Cultural Transmission

1. Karen Selk, Wild Silk: Repairing and Healing our Planet and Social Fabric
2. Miwa Kanetani and Makoto Shibata, Material Environment to Sustain Traditional Textile: Wisteria Weaving in Kyoto, Japan
3. Agus Ismoyo Isnugroho and Nia Fliam, Unveiling the Deeper Meaning: The Artistic Process of Batik in Indonesian Culture

Session 6B

Individual papers: Techniques and Cultural Meanings

1. Alexis Zoto, Lavenz, Valenz, Lavexha, Lavenzka: Woven felted blankets from the Korçë region in Southeastern Albania
2. Marilyn Emerson Holtzer, Pieces of Eight: Diagonal Color Stripes on Eight-Hole Tablets
3. Tomoko Torimaru, A Study of “Kurar”: Its historical and cultural significance to the Kingdom of Bahrain 

7:00-8:00pm EST (Session 6C only)

Session 6C

Organized session: Weaving Transformations: Integrating the TC2 Loom in Higher Education Textile Programs

Anna Stuffelbeam, Katherine Nartker, Janie Woodbridge

8:00-9:00am EST

Virtual Social Gathering

Session 7A

Panel Discussion: What It’s Really Like: Ethics, Sustainability, and Transparency in Central Asian Textile Development

Chair: Amy Swanson

Speakers: Sy Belohlavek, Preston Thiessen, Theresa VanderMeer

Session 7B

Individual papers: Knowledge and Ancestral Connections

1. Emma C. Wingfield, Mapping Interconnected Threads: Contemporary Dioula Handwoven Cloth, Motif Development, and Creativity in Côte d’Ivoire 1970-2023
2. Jennifer Byram and Eveline Steele, Plying Together Knowledges: Revitalization of Indigenous Textile Knowledge through Language 
3. Theresa Downing, The Touch and Breath of Cloth: Folding and Unfolding Bedsheets with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons 

Individual papers: Advocacy, resistance, cultural heritage

1. Rajesh Kumar and Dharmendra Bana, Stitches of Sustainability: Empowering Women and Preserving Culture through Pakko Embroidery
2. Yan Yan, Ethics regrown in female: in family production and mom-daughter transmission
3. Sarah Brown, ‘We’re not leaving the mat weaving’: Transitions of craft practice in southeast Madagascar

Session 8A

Panel Discussion: Echoing the Past, Spinning Indigenous Textiles Forward

Session Chair: Jennifer Byram

Speakers: Megan Baker, Sandra Riley, Margaret Riley Santhanam, Debra Pruett

Session 8B

Individual papers: Sustainability and Accountability in the Global Textile Industry

1. Idowu Diyaolu, Strands and Shifts: The Africa-China Textile Trade and Cultural Sustainability
2. Nidia Trejo, Environmental Legacy: Superfund Sites in the Apparel and Footwear Supply Chain
3. Kelly Reddy-Best, Queer and Trans Fashion Brands: An Ethical Balancing Act in Production and Pricing

Session 8C

Panel Discussion: The Re-emergence of the North American Fiber Flax Industry: An Opportunity to Re-think

Session Chair: Arin Gintowt

Speakers: Kristina Foley, Leslie Schroeder, Angela Wartes-Kahl, Fiona Barrett

Session 8D

Organized Session: Musea Turnhout | Lace Production in Turnhout, Belgium (19th – 20th c.) | Historical Research & Lace Collection Registration

Session Chair: Marnix Steenackers

Speakers: Sofie Wilder, Liliane Eykens, Lea Brys, Linda Coolen, Sabine Van Heupen, Ria Van den Heurck

1:00-2:30pm EST

Keynote Lecture: Dr. Anna Arabindan-Kesson in conversation with Dr. Sharbreon Plummer

Session 9A

Panel Discussion: Roundtable on Provenance in Textile Studies

Session Chair: Amanda Phillips

Speakers: Amanda Phillips, Eiren Shea, Patricia Blessing, Sylvia Houghteling, Julia K. McHugh, Elizabeth Dospěl Williams

Session 9B

Individual papers: Needleworked Ideals: Labor, Colonialism, Class, Gender

1. Emily Whitted, Re-examining the Darning Sampler: Imagined Textile Repair in Early America 
2.  Laurin Guthrie, Crafting National Identity: The Parallels Between Aran Sweaters and Appalachian Coverlets
3. Mariah Kupfner, Many Hands: White Womanhood, Enslaved Labor, and the Myth of the Individual Maker 

Session 9C

Individual papers: Revisiting Fiber Art Histories

1. Sarah Mills, Becoming Craft:  Modern Weaving in Art Museums
2. Rebecca McNamara, “What was before”: Lenore Tawney and Her Circle, 1950–1963
3. Jess Jones, Lost Weavings of Atlanta: Plying the Past and Present

Session 10A

Individual papers: New Understandings of Early Fiber Art and Artists

1. Jane Groufsky and  Elle Loui August, The Interlacing Threads: Margery Blackman connecting communities and contexts
2. Cynthia Fowler, The Influence of Textiles on the Paintings of Maurice Prendergast

Session 10B

Individual papers: Textile ecologies and living systems

1. Lesley Roberts, Building a Movement: Regional Fiber Economies and Ecologies
2. Jennifer Green, From Soil and Place: the Flaxmobile Project and the cultivation of a local textile ecology
3. Melanie Olde, Woven Life Systems 

Session 10C

Panel Discussion 8: Reimagining Textile and Fashion Futures: Generative AI at the Crossroads of Craft and Digital Innovation

Nandini Gopalarathinam, Samar Younes

6:00-7:00pm EST

Virtual Social Gathering

7:00-8:30pm EST

Keynote Presentation: Artists Up Close – Virtual Artist Studio Visit with Consuelo Jimenez Underwood 

Art, Threads, Truth: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood in conversation with Kira Dominguez Hultgren

9:30-11:00am EST

Keynote presentation: Curating Textiles: Weaving Transcultural Narratives
Lotte Johnson and Wells Fray-Smith in conversation with Dr. Christine Checinska

Session 11A

Organized session and discussion: Narrative Threads

1. Sarah Molina, Tonia Brown, Kristin Kim, Building a More Inclusive Glossary
2. Matthew Raj Webb, “Textiles” (Multimodal and Comparative Strategies) 
3. Lynda Teller Pete, Tapestry 
4. Marsely Kehoe, Cotton
5. discussion

Session 11B

Panel discussion: One thread at a time: The role of textile crafts on well-being in marginalized communities

Session Chair: Michelle Burton

Speakers: Bianka Hausknecht, Ja-Young Hwang, Kim Hahn, Jihyun Kim-Vick

Session 11C

Individual papers: Object histories

1. Janet Pollock, The Stamina of Things: Jean Toury’s Nightshirt
2. Anou Singhvi, LOST & LOOTED – The Fate Of Bejeweled Textiles And Gemstone Carpets Of India
3. Sareekah Agarwaal, Strands of Repair: Textile Treasures as Sustainable Pathways to Reconnect with the Lost Past

Session 12A

Warp Speed/Poster Sessions

1. Karen LeBlanc, Branch Out and Weave for Climate Change
2. Gina Granter, “Materializing Memory through Quilted Cod: ‘Making Fish’ as Memorial”
3. Lynn Bennett-Carpenter, Handwoven Drawings by Lynn Bennett-Carpenter 
4. C. Pazia Mannella, Victory Heritage Prestige
5. Sam Simons, Weaving Rituals for Resistance
6. Anie Toole, Weaving writing / Writing weaving

Session 12B

Individual papers: Textile conservation and collections

1. Emilela Thomas-Adams, The Art of Care: Repair and Recycling in a Late Medieval Convent
2. Lucinda Pelton, The Material Life of a Jiangyi (Taoist priest vestment): 18th Century to the Present
3. Stephanie Caruso, Late Antique Textiles From Egypt: Shifting Perceptions In Their Lives And Afterlives 

Session 12C

Individual papers: Rewriting histories

1. Wafa Ghnaim, Thobe as Life: Preserving Biographies, Stories & Land in Palestinian Dress 
2. Kristal Hale and Sandra Sardjono, Conservation and Repatriation of Textiles 
3. Karen Baker, Negro Cloth: African American Women Textile Design History 

2:45-3:45pm EST

Keynote presentation – Artists Up Close – Virtual Artist Studio Visit with José Santiago Pérez

9:00-10:00am EST

TSA Member Meeting

10:30-12:30pm EST Film Screening

“Wax Print” followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Aiwan Obinyan

Session 13A

Individual papers: Ways of making

1. Kadi Pajupuu, MultiWeave. Ambitions and inspirations
2. Markia Liapi, Tactility and historicity in contemporary textile art: the Greek example
3. Cat Mailloux, Hand to Ear: Collaborating Through Textiles 

Session 13B

TSA Listening Session: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

Amber Clifford, Keidra Daniels Navaroli, Lynda Teller Pete, Sariah Park 

Session 13C

Individual papers: Recovering histories

1. Alexandra Peck, Fungal Fibers/”Coyote’s Braids”: Ingenious Indigenous Manufacture of Mycological Textiles in the Pacific Northwest 
2. Sydney Maresca, “Coats Woven of Turkie-feathers”: Indigenous Featherwork Mantles in the Seventeenth-Century American Northeast 
3. Maggy Fragoso, A contribution to the preservation and revival of the Cabo Verdean pano d’obra textiles 

Session 14A

Individual papers: Material Transformations

1. Astri Snodgrass, Artist Talk: The Memory of the Fingers 
2. Etta Sandry, Inconclusive Objects: Sample Making as Inquiry-Driven Practice
3. Fafnir Adamites, Felt: Leaning into the Chaotic 

Session 14C

Individual papers: Shaped by Colonialism

1. Chloe Chapin, Linen Shifts to Cotton Shirts: material, manufacture, and racial symbolism in 19th century America
2. Amanda Briggs-Goode, Reframing Nottingham Lace: Global connections and material journeys 
3. Elena Kanagy-Loux, “Muy Curiosa y Muy Diestra”: Bobbin Lace Making in Eighteenth-Century Mexico 

Session 15A

Organized session: Needle and Thread: Embroidered Narratives from India

Chair: Anjali Karolia

Speakers: Meeta Siddhu, Beena Santosh Modathi, Gurvinder Kaur Gundev

1. Behind the Glitter: Hidden Stories of Home-Based Women Zardozi Artisans of Bhopal, India
2. Lambani Embroidery: Oscillating between the Past and the Present
3. Threads of Tradition: Unravelling the Shifting Semiotics of Phulkari Embroidery from Past to Present

Session 15B

Individual papers: Restoration, Mending, Sustainability

1. Boiso Owodiong-Idemeko, Perception and Prospects of Art of Clothing Maintenance as a Sustainable Fashion 
2. Elena Brebenel, Connections: found, applied and restored
3. Ambika Magotra and Vidushi Vashishtha, Revival of Age-Old Traditional Indian Mending Techniques for Preservation and Conservation of Textiles

Session 15C

Individual papers: Sustainable materials, sustainable design

1. Harita Kapur, Ecological Design Thinking: Re-designing and re-envisioning design cultures
2. Almas Ali, Weaving a Sustainable Future: Electrocatalytic Textile Electrodes from Functionalized Nanomaterials
3. Mercy Wanduara, Experimentation on Manual Paper Making Using Mango Seed Fibers

Session 16A

Individual papers: Healing through design

1. Smrti Ganesan and Nishanth Srikanth, Textile ways of thinking as a trauma-informed design tool to research and understand communities
2. Rajni Srivastava, Application of Natural Resources and Indigenous Knowledge on Textile Materials: A Sustainable Design Approach 
3. Chavi Goyal, A Study of Amdo Women Costume of Tibet in Exile and Designing Indowestern Garments 

Session 16B

Organized Session: Textiles in Ethiopian Manuscripts: Eastern Africa’s Engagement with Early Modern “Textile Roads”

Chair: Michael Gervers

1. Dr Hagos Abay, Textiles in Ethiopian Manuscripts: Eastern Africa’s Engagement with Early Modern “Textile Roads”
2. Dr Sarah Fee, “All the merchandise that there is in the world”. Highland Ethiopia’s patronage of global textile roads 
3. Rosemary Crill, Asian textiles in Ethiopian book-bindings
4. Dr Philip Sykas, “Manchester calicoes and gaudy prints”: European prints in Ethiopian manuscripts

Session 16C

Individual papers: Indigenous knowledge in India

1. Farrah Cato and Prerana Choudhury, Weaving Community: The Manual Loom as Metaphor for Rupture and Repair 
2. Nisaphi Lyndem, Exploring the development of the Loin Loom, Materials and Motifs in Naga textiles
3. Ashima Gupta, Draped in History: Unveiling Vijayanagar’s Social Tapestry through Lepakshi Portrayals

Session 16D

Panel Discussion: Soof Embroidery: The 50 year journey of a craft and empowerment of refugees in Kutch

Session Chair: Shraddha Thacker

Speakers: Vimal Trivedi, Avani Devdhar, Ami Shroff

Session 17A

Individual papers: Education for empowerment 

1. Lucy Mugambi, Fostering Interconnectedness Among Diverse Students Through Rag Weaving in a Schools setting in Kenya 
2. Dr. Manpreet Chahal, An Attempt Towards Skilling Persons with Visual Impairment in Macrame Technique Using Post-Consumer Textile Waste 
3. Elizabeth Okeyele-Olatunji, Effect of project based learning on Achievement pupils in lekki schools, Lagos state 

Session 17B

Individual papers: Textiles, place, community

1. Hua Yang, Textile Art Center in Brooklyn, a case study of cosmopolitan small community business and diasporic feminism 
2. Julie Hollenbach, Textile as Situated Practice: Unmaking/Remaking Bodies and Worlds 
3. Gizem Öz, Local Crafts, Local Places: Weaving as a Place-making Activity 

Session 17C

Individual papers: Weaving and sound

1. Qianwen Yu, Music of the Loom: Reverberations and Refigurations of Style in Hand Weaving and Musical Composition
2. Judit Eszter Kárpáti, Dung Dkar Cloak – Exploring Soft Interfaces for Sonic Interactions
3. Kristine Barrett, Inhabiting Numbers: Weaving, Polyphony, and Embodied Mathematics

2:45-4:15pm EST

Keynote presentation

Lois Biggs and Gaby Lavalle: Weaving Gallery Conversations

Closing plenary and Awards Announcements