2023 Fall News

For our first Member Monday feature of the year, meet Tory Laitila, Curator of Textiles and Historic Arts at the Honolulu Museum of Art. A dedicated costume historian and vexillologist, ...

Early this month, the city of Miami played host to Art Basel and the numerous accompanying art fairs that make up Art Week. Showcasing the best and the next in ...

The R. L. Shep Memorial Book Award is now in its twenty-third year and the number of nominated books has grown substantially in recent award cycles. The guidelines for the ...

Spanning the globe, Textile Society of America's membership reflects the broad range of practices and areas of interest that textiles inspire. This month, we highlight Prerana Anjali Choudhury, founder of ...

Announcing the 2024 Textile Society of America Symposium! Title: Shifts and Strands: Rethinking the Possibilities and Potentials of Textiles Date: mid-November 2024 Modality: Virtual on Zoom The theme "Shifts and ...

This month, we highlight the second of our Summer Lab Pitch Session attendees, Heather Schulte, an interdisciplinary artist based in Colorado. As we gear up for October's colloquium, (re)Imagining Futures: ...

In advance of TSA's upcoming colloquium, (re)Imagining Futures: Shifting Methodologies, this Summer's Lab Pitch Session offered an opportunity to share creative projects, brainstorm with peers, and weave together collective textile ...

We are thrilled to announce the 2023 TSA Research Travel Grant awardees. This award supports individual TSA members in textiles research-related travel—local, regional, and international of any type, specifically for ...

Michael James has long been fascinated with patterns. As a metaphor for the complex systems that run through our world, James explores the patterns in his non-traditional quilts to evoke ...