Tuesday, November 12, 2024
12:30-1:00pm 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
2:45-4:15pm EST Concurrent Session 1
Session 1A
Individual papers: Climate Catastrophe, Artist Responses
- Heather Kerley, 23 Extinct Redwork Quilt Project: Repairing Relationships with our More-Than-Human Kin, Stitch by Stich
- Jessie Fraser, Till the Tide: affective movement in site-specific installation
- Amy Dorie, Burning Fear
Session 1B
Panel Discussion: Shifting Perspectives: Diné Textile Arts and Collaborative Museum Practice
Session Chair: Hadley Jensen
Speakers: Lillia McEnaney, Lynda Teller Pete, Barbara Teller Ornelas, Kevin Aspaas
Session 1C
TSA Listening Session: Community check-in
4:30-6:00pm EST Concurrent Session 2
Session 2A
Individual papers: Textiles and Community
- Isabella Amstrup, Weaving Club
- Susanne Cockrell, Stitching Time into Place: The San Juan Ridge Tapestry project
- Helen Trejo and Angela Becerril, Solidarity Dividend with US Wool and Community Engagement to Address Socioeconomic Inequities
Session 2B
Individual papers: Fashioning Nationalism
- Keiko Okamoto, Bridging Traditions and Innovations in Japanese Fashion – Kimono & Wedding Dress after WWII to the present
- Nallely Rangel Vázquez, A city between fibers, threads, textiles, and seamstresses: establishments in Mexico City (1900-1910)
- 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
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
9:30-11:00am EST
Keynote Presentation: Artisanal voices: Sustaining Hand Embroidery Legacy of India, organized by Dr. Vandana Bhandari
11:15-12:45pm EST Concurrent Session 3
Session 3A
Individual papers: Collaboration, community and care
- Nikita Shah, Fursat: Crafting Community, Rest, and Care Through Textiles
- Suzanna James, Caring Cloth Praxis: Ethics of loss, Practices of Remembering
- Theda Sandiford, Free Your Mind
Session 3B
Individual papers: Textiles and digital systems
- Esteban de la Torre, Material Sentience – Crossmodal Textile Interactions
- Katya Oicherman, Textile as Cultural Technology: The Evolution of Robert Rauschenberg’s Jammers, 1975-76
- 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
1:00-2:30pm EST: Concurrent Session 4
Session 4A
Individual papers: Collections
- Lori Benson, Chiapas Maya Project – Weaving Community
- Ann Frisina, An Origin Story: Creating the Minnesota Historical Society Costume Collection 1920-1974
- 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
- Sanniah Jabeen, The Handmade Ajrak in the Age of Mass (Re)Production
- Joan Hart, Queen Victoria, the Sultan, the Adventurer: Weaving Strands of the History of Kashmir Shawls
- 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
- Anna Boutin-Cooper, Weaving Intergenerational Joy: Honoring Ancestral Legacy with “Grandma’s Placemats”
- Tim Abel, Five Quilts as Claims about Collage, Teaching, Learning & Being
- John Fifield-Perez, Queer Horizons and Love Letters in the Archive
2:45-4:15pm EST Concurrent Sessions 5
Session 5A
Individual papers: Recovering Fashion Histories
- Laura Johnson, “Within the reach of everyone” Tracing the global strands of Herrman, Sternbach & Co’s imitation furs
- Alysha Kupferer, Refashioning History: A framework for studying systems of dress in response to textile technologies
- Celine Khawam, Henri de Châtillon (1906-1972): A French Milliner In Mexico City
Session 5B
Individual papers: Textiles in War and Armed Conflict
- Joanna Dermenjian, Quilting as to War
- Khamal Patterson, Kite Tales: The Strings That Connect and Cut
- 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, Alan Elder, Michele Hardy, Julia Krueger
- Weaving at the Horizon: Encounters with Fibre Art on the Canadian Prairie
- Julia Krueger, Folded and Inside Out: A textile informed approach for studying Saskatchewan ceramics and weavings of the 1970s and 1980s,
- Rethinking architectural textiles
- Choices and Challenges: Curating Prairie Interlace
4:30-5:30pm EST
Keynote Presentation: Artists Up Close – Virtual Artist Studio Visit with Ai Kijima
7:00-8:30pm EST Concurrent Session 6
Session 6A
Individual papers: Materiality and Cultural Transmission
- Karen Selk, Wild Silk: Repairing and Healing our Planet and Social Fabric
- Miwa Kanetani and Makoto Shibata, Material Environment to Sustain Traditional Textile: Wisteria Weaving in Kyoto, Japan
- 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
- Alexis Zoto, Lavenz, Valenz, Lavexha, Lavenzka: Woven felted blankets from the Korçë region in Southeastern Albania
- Marilyn Emerson Holtzer, Pieces of Eight: Diagonal Color Stripes on Eight-Hole Tablets
- 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
Thursday, November 14, 2024
8:00-9:00am EST
Virtual Social Gathering
9:30-11:00am EST Concurrent Session 7
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
- Emma C. Wingfield, Mapping Interconnected Threads: Contemporary Dioula Handwoven Cloth, Motif Development, and Creativity in Côte d’Ivoire 1970-2023
- Jennifer Byram and Eveline Steele, Plying Together Knowledges: Revitalization of Indigenous Textile Knowledge through Language
- Theresa Downing, The Touch and Breath of Cloth: Folding and Unfolding Bedsheets with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Session 7C
Individual papers: Advocacy, resistance, cultural heritage
- Rajesh Kumar and Dharmendra Bana, Stitches of Sustainability: Empowering Women and Preserving Culture through Pakko Embroidery
- Yan Yan, Ethics regrown in female: in family production and mom-daughter transmission
- Sarah Brown, ‘We’re not leaving the mat weaving’: Transitions of craft practice in southeast Madagascar
11:15am-12:45pm EST Concurrent Session 8
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
- Idowu Diyaolu, Strands and Shifts: The Africa-China Textile Trade and Cultural Sustainability
- Nidia Trejo, Environmental Legacy: Superfund Sites in the Apparel and Footwear Supply Chain
- 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
2:45-4:15pm EST Concurrent Session 9
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
- Emily Whitted, Re-examining the Darning Sampler: Imagined Textile Repair in Early America
- Laurin Guthrie, Crafting National Identity: The Parallels Between Aran Sweaters and Appalachian Coverlets
- Mariah Kupfner, Many Hands: White Womanhood, Enslaved Labor, and the Myth of the Individual Maker
Session 9C
Individual papers: Revisiting Fiber Art Histories
- Sarah Mills, Becoming Craft: Modern Weaving in Art Museums
- Rebecca McNamara, “What was before”: Lenore Tawney and Her Circle, 1950–1963
- Jess Jones, Lost Weavings of Atlanta: Plying the Past and Present
4:30-6:00pm EST Concurrent Session 10
Session 10A
Individual papers: New Understandings of Early Fiber Art and Artists
- Jane Groufsky and Elle Loui August, The Interlacing Threads: Margery Blackman connecting communities and contexts
- Cynthia Fowler, The Influence of Textiles on the Paintings of Maurice Prendergast
- Joanna Dermenjian, Across International Borders – Quilters in Canada execute designs by LA Artists for 1981 Art Exhibit
Session 10B
Individual papers: Textile ecologies and living systems
- Lesley Roberts, Building a Movement: Regional Fiber Economies and Ecologies
- Rhonda Ferguson and Jennifer Green, From Soil and Place: the Flaxmobile Project and the cultivation of a local textile ecology
- 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
Friday, November 15, 2024
9:30-11:00am EST
Keynote presentation: Curating Textiles: Weaving Transcultural Narratives
Lotte Johnson and Wells Fray-Smith in conversation with Dr. Christine Checinska
11:15am-12:45pm EST Concurrent Session 11
Session 11A
Organized session and discussion: Narrative Threads
- Sarah Molina, Tonia Brown, Kristin Kim, Building a More Inclusive Glossary
- Matthew Raj Webb, “Textiles” (Multimodal and Comparative Strategies)
- Lynda Teller Pete, Tapestry
- Marsely Kehoe, Cotton
- 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
- Janet Pollock, The Stamina of Things: Jean Toury’s Nightshirt
- Anou Singhvi, LOST & LOOTED – The Fate Of Bejeweled Textiles And Gemstone Carpets Of India
- Sareekah Agarwaal, Strands of Repair: Textile Treasures as Sustainable Pathways to Reconnect with the Lost Past
1:00-2:30pm EST Concurrent Session 12
Session 12A
Warp Speed/Poster Sessions
- Karen LeBlanc, Branch Out and Weave for Climate Change
- Gina Granter, “Materializing Memory through Quilted Cod: ‘Making Fish’ as Memorial”
- Lynn Bennett-Carpenter, Handwoven Drawings by Lynn Bennett-Carpenter
- C. Pazia Mannella, Victory Heritage Prestige
- Sam Simons, Weaving Rituals for Resistance
- Anie Toole, Weaving writing / Writing weaving
Session 12B
Individual papers: Textile conservation and collections
- Emilela Thomas-Adams, The Art of Care: Repair and Recycling in a Late Medieval Convent
- Lucinda Pelton, The Material Life of a Jiangyi (Taoist priest vestment): 18th Century to the Present
- Stephanie Caruso, Late Antique Textiles From Egypt: Shifting Perceptions In Their Lives And Afterlives
Session 12C
Individual papers: Rewriting histories
- Wafa Ghnaim, Thobe as Life: Preserving Biographies, Stories & Land in Palestinian Dress
- Kristal Hale and Sandra Sardjono, Conservation and Repatriation of Textiles
- 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
Saturday, November 16, 2024
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
1:00-2:30pm EST Concurrent Session 13
Session 13A
Individual papers: Ways of making
- Kadi Pajupuu, MultiWeave. Ambitions and inspirations
- Markia Liapi, Tactility and historicity in contemporary textile art: the Greek example
- 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
- Alexandra Peck, Fungal Fibers/”Coyote’s Braids”: Ingenious Indigenous Manufacture of Mycological Textiles in the Pacific Northwest
- Sydney Maresca, “Coats Woven of Turkie-feathers”: Indigenous Featherwork Mantles in the Seventeenth-Century American Northeast
- Maggy Fragoso, A contribution to the preservation and revival of the Cabo Verdean pano d’obra textiles
2:45-4:15pm EST Concurrent Session 14
Session 14A
Individual papers: Material Transformations
- Astri Snodgrass, Artist Talk: The Memory of the Fingers
- Etta Sandry, Inconclusive Objects: Sample Making as Inquiry-Driven Practice
- Fafnir Adamites, Felt: Leaning into the Chaotic
Session 14B
Panel Discussion: WEave: The Diaspora of Philippine Textiles in North America
Chair: Christina Laskowski
Speakers: Maya Ong-Escudero, Almira Astudillo Gilles, Edwin Lozada, Anthony Cruz Legarda
Session 14C
Individual papers: Shaped by Colonialism
- Chloe Chapin, Linen Shifts to Cotton Shirts: material, manufacture, and racial symbolism in 19th century America
- Amanda Briggs-Goode, Reframing Nottingham Lace: Global connections and material journeys
- Elena Kanagy-Loux, “Muy Curiosa y Muy Diestra”: Bobbin Lace Making in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Sunday, November 17, 2024
9:30-11:00am EST Concurrent Session 15
Session 15A
Organized session: Needle and Thread: Embroidered Narratives from India
Chair: Anjali Karolia
Speakers: Meeta Siddhu, Beena Santosh Modathi, Gurvinder Kaur Gundev
- Behind the Glitter: Hidden Stories of Home-Based Women Zardozi Artisans of Bhopal, India
- Lambani Embroidery: Oscillating between the Past and the Present
- Threads of Tradition: Unravelling the Shifting Semiotics of Phulkari Embroidery from Past to Present
Session 15B
Individual papers: Restoration, Mending, Sustainability
- Boiso Owodiong-Idemeko, Perception and Prospects of Art of Clothing Maintenance as a Sustainable Fashion
- Elena Brebenel, Connections: found, applied and restored
- 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
- Harita Kapur, Ecological Design Thinking: Re-designing and re-envisioning design cultures
- Almas Ali, Weaving a Sustainable Future: Electrocatalytic Textile Electrodes from Functionalized Nanomaterials
- Mercy Wanduara, Experimentation on Manual Paper Making Using Mango Seed Fibers
11:15am-12:45pm EST Concurrent Session 16
Session 16A
Individual papers: Healing through design
- Smrti Ganesan and Nishanth Srikanth, Textile ways of thinking as a trauma-informed design tool to research and understand communities
- Rajni Srivastava, Application of Natural Resources and Indigenous Knowledge on Textile Materials: A Sustainable Design Approach
- 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
- Dr Hagos Abay, Textiles in Ethiopian Manuscripts: Eastern Africa’s Engagement with Early Modern “Textile Roads”
- Dr Sarah Fee, “All the merchandise that there is in the world”. Highland Ethiopia’s patronage of global textile roads
- Rosemary Crill, Asian textiles in Ethiopian book-bindings
- Dr Philip Sykas, “Manchester calicoes and gaudy prints”: European prints in Ethiopian manuscripts
Session 16C
Individual papers: Indigenous knowledge in India
- Farrah Cato and Prerana Choudhury, Weaving Community: The Manual Loom as Metaphor for Rupture and Repair
- Nisaphi Lyndem, Exploring the development of the Loin Loom, Materials and Motifs in Naga textiles
- 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
1:00-2:30pm EST Concurrent Session 17
Session 17A
Individual papers: Education for empowerment
- Lucy Mugambi, Fostering Interconnectedness Among Diverse Students Through Rag Weaving in a Schools setting in Kenya
- Dr. Manpreet Chahal, An Attempt Towards Skilling Persons with Visual Impairment in Macrame Technique Using Post-Consumer Textile Waste
- Elizabeth Okeyele-Olatunji, Effect of project based learning on Achievement pupils in lekki schools, Lagos state
Session 17B
Individual papers: Textiles, place, community
- Hua Yang, Textile Art Center in Brooklyn, a case study of cosmopolitan small community business and diasporic feminism
- Julie Hollenbach, Textile as Situated Practice: Unmaking/Remaking Bodies and Worlds
- Gizem Öz, Local Crafts, Local Places: Weaving as a Place-making Activity
Session 17C
Individual papers: Weaving and sound
- Qianwen Yu, Music of the Loom: Reverberations and Refigurations of Style in Hand Weaving and Musical Composition
- Judit Eszter Kárpáti, Dung Dkar Cloak – Exploring Soft Interfaces for Sonic Interactions
- 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