TSA News
In Memoriam: Archie Brennan
December 7, 1931–October 31, 2019 By Mary Lane Archie Brennan. Photo credit: Alex Kistler Archie Brennan passed away on October 31, 2019. He was born in Roslin, Scotland on December ...
In Memoriam: Marion Coleman
By Lisa L. Kriner, TSA President, 2018–2020 This article was originally published in the Fall 2019 issue of the TSA Newsletter. Marion Coleman at the 2018 NEA National Heritage Fellowships ...
Exhibition Review: Commemorations: Vita Plume
Reviewed by Pat Hickman and Gail Hovey New Brunswick Museum Saint John, Canada June 9–September 9, 2019 Visit exhibition page here Vita Plume, Woman Making Basket-Ulmann Project. Woven at Oriole ...
A Land of Light and Color: Craft Makers in Morocco
By Kathleen Curtis Wilson This article was originally published in the Fall 2019 issue of the TSA Newsletter. Morocco is a land of beauty and poverty, heat and dust, a ...
Book Review: The Intentional Thread: A Guide to Drawing, Gesture, and Color in Stitch
This article was originally published in the Fall 2019 issue of the TSA Newsletter. The Intentional Thread: A Guide to Drawing, Gesture, and Color in Stitch Author: Susan Brandeis Published ...
United States Artist Fellowship Goes to TSA Member Janice Lessman
Janice Lessman-Moss learned that she had been awarded a prestigious United States Artist Fellowship at the closing plenary session of the September 2018 Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium ...
Woven Buttons of Sefrou, Morocco
During a recent trip to Morocco, co-sponsored by TSA and Peters Valley School of Craft, I experienced a culture of beauty, vibrant color, and craftsmanship ...
TSA Members at Fiberart International 2019
Fiberart International is one of the longest running juried exhibitions of textile art in the world. A triennial event, this prestigious exhibition attracts an international group of artists ...
Ancient Textiles at Godwin-Ternbach Museum
By Ann Peters, who is a member of the TSA Board. As an archaeologist, she analyzes textiles and other artifacts created from organic materials, working with museum collections and archives ...
Streaming: Wind & Water
Garrison Art Center in NY presents Streaming: Wind & Water, a site-specific installation of sculptural works by textile artist Pat Hickman. The exhibition will be on view in the Riverside ...
At Work in Haiti
By Erica White, operations manager of Haiti Babi, in Cap Haitien, Haiti; all photos courtesy of Haiti Babi In December of 2010 I graduated from the University of Nebraska with ...
Textiles Close Up — From Ancient to Avant-Garde: Textiles in Montreal
By Talia Connelly, a textile student from Seattle, WA who is currently completing a BFA at Rhode Island School of Design. In her work, she explores topics related to cultural ...
Camille Ann Brewer at the Textile Museum of America
By Wendy Weiss, TSA Communications Director and Newsletter Editor Camille Ann Brewer has been working energetically to develop programs, outreach, and a curatorial vision since arriving at the George Washington ...
Sacred Scraps: Quilt and Patchwork Traditions of Central Asia
by Pat Hickman and Gail Hovey; Pat is a studio artist in the Lower Hudson Valley, emeritus professor of Art, head of the Fiber program at the University of Hawai’i, ...
Cooper Hewitt Objects of the Day for Textiles Month
The Cooper Hewitt Museum has invited TSA Members to share their favorite textile pieces. One will be featured each day, through the month of September, as the Object of the ...
Textiles Close Up: Bloomington Blues
By Jasmine Kornel, an MFA candidate in Textile Art at Kent State University. She gained a deep interest in sustainable design practices while earning her undergraduate degree in Fashion Design and is ...
National African American Quilt Convention, July 12 – 15, 2017
By Dawn Williams Boyd, a visual artist who changed her primary medium from acrylic paints on various mediums to fabric in 2001. She graduated from Stephens College in Columbia, MO ...
Textiles Close Up: Woven Interiors—Late Antique Textiles in DC Collections
By Sarah Molina Sarah Molina was the TSA scholarship recipient for this program. She is a Graduate Intern in the Museum Profession at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., where ...
Steps Towards Decolonizing Craft
By Aram Han Sifuentes, who uses a needle and thread as her tools to examine immigration, citizenship, race and craft. She has exhibited, performed, and demonstrated her work at the Museum ...
Shifting Landscapes and Mending
Exhibition review of two shows at form & concept, 435 S Guadalupe St., Santa Fe, NM 87501 (This review will appear in the Spring/Summer issue of the TSA members newsletter, ...
The 10th International Shibori Symposium
By Beatrijs Sterk, former publisher of Textile Forum Magazine and founder and secretary general of the European Textile Network (ETN) until May 2015. She currently writes for the Textile Forum Blog, ...
Aesthetics of Pleasure
By Dr. Yolanda Sánchez Born in Havana, Cuba, Dr. Sánchez immigrated to the United States in February 1960. She obtained a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Florida State University and has ...
Embroidery and Bondage
By Erlend Helling-Larsen Erlend Helling-Larsen is a Norwegian artist who studied at the Oslo School of Painting and Drawing and at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where he received a Bachelor ...
Common Coin
By Joshua Callandret Joshua Callandret is a writer residing in Savannah Georgia. He develops online courses for the Savannah College of Art and Design while also pursuing his MFA in ...
Reflections
By Margaret Hubert Margaret Hubert started in the needle arts business in 1963, as co-owner of a small yarn shop. She later became the needlework instructor for Bloomingdale’s in White Plains, ...
A Feminist Pedagogy through the Sociopolitical Stitch
By Laura Sapelly Laura Elizabeth Sapelly's research merges her background in fiberarts, women's history, feminist theory, and art education. While earning her Ph.D. at Penn State, she related the pedagogical significance ...
Falling In Love Again: A Continuing Mystery about Stitched Glass
By Sam Norgard Sam Norgard grew up working in her family-run flower shop. By her grandmother’s side, she learned design, quality crafts(wo)manship and humor. A long career of university teaching ...
A City’s History and a Family’s History Woven Together in Poland
By Mirka Knaster Mirka Knaster, Ph.D., creates contemporary textile art in a studio overlooking the Pacific Ocean in northern California. Growing up cross-culturally and living and/or traveling across the world’s continents, ...
True Colors of Plants
By Lin Hsin-Chen Lin Hsin-Chen is the founder of Taiwan Art Quilt Society (TAQS). Born and raised in Taiwan, she is a fiber artist and an independent curator who has been ...
Women’s Writing – Miao Batik
By Diana Chen Diana Chen is an artist, educator, and art critic, who was born in Guizhou, China. She received her Master's degree in Art and Art Education from Columbia University, ...