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TSA Establishes a New Award Fellows of the Textile Society of America.
“As we honor path-breaking leaders in the field, we also foreground the diverse ways that textiles are integral to human experience, emphasize the central roles that textiles play in life, ...
Explore TSA’s Online Membership and Registration System
Explore TSA’s Online Membership and Registration System with Membership Associate Lauren Hartman In 2013 TSA implemented an online system for membership, donations, and program registration. This system has strengthened our ...
12th Brandford/Elliott Awardee Announced
Andrea Donnelly Honored with 12th Brandford/Elliott Award at Textile Symposium The Textile Society of America convened for its 14th Biennial Symposium in Los Angeles, Sept. 10-14, 2014. At the closing ...
Textile Society of America Announces 2013 Winner of R.L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award
Berkeley, CA—Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe: a History in Layers, by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Barbara Belle Sloan, editors, earned the 2013 R. L. Shep Ethnic Textile Book Award from ...
Introductions & Welcome New Members of the 2014-2016 Board of Directors
Vice President/President Elect Vita Plume is an artist and educator who has exhibited her work through- out Canada, U.S.A., Japan, Poland, Latvia, and Finland. She holds an MFA (Nova Scotia ...
TSA Welcomes New Membership Associate
Dear Members, It is with great enthusiasm that I introduce you to the newest member of the TSA staff. Lauren Hartman joined TSA in June in as Membership Associate. This ...
Top 10 Reasons to Register
for the 2014 Biennial Symposium, New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future, in Los Angeles, September 10-14 10. A Beautiful Setting Enjoy warm fall weather amongst the flowers and bamboo ...
Welcome Maleyne Syracuse, New TSA Board Tressurer
We are happy to announce that Maleyne Syracuse has join TSA's Board of Directors. Maleyne brings her years of professional finance experience and a commitment to the textiles field. Please ...
Board Nominations Now Open
Nomination forms: Click to Nominate a Colleague Click to Nominate yourself TSA is soliciting nominations for the Board of Directors. Board positions open for the next Election cycle include the Vice President/President-Elect, ...
Call for Art – A Juried Exhibition of the Textile Society of America
New Directions A Juried Exhibition of the Textile Society of America September 13, 2014 – January 4, 2015 Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles In conjunction with the Textile ...
President’s Blog
July 12, 2013 Last night I attended the opening in Chelsea of very intriguing show. Curated by Terry Winters, a New York painter, the show is called Roving Signs. It ...
Best wishes to Char Cosby, Manager of the National Office since 2007
Charlotte Cosby, our manager of the TSA National Office since 2007 is leaving TSA on June 30. Char has been an incredible asset to the organization over the last six ...
TSA Welcomes New Executive Director
TSA is growing. Our diverse membership of artists, scholars, curators, teachers, conservators, dealers, collectors, and students continues to expand. At the same time, we are developing new systems and new ...
TSA President’s Blog: April 7, 2013
I am currently spending a month in Paris teaching a seminar, Coloring the Globe: textiles and dyes, trade and culture, at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes. This also gives me ...
New Connections in Kutch
You might be on my mailing list. And if you received a TSA press release over the past six months, it would have been sent from Western India. As the ...
TSA has a new Treasurer!
Nina Olson is the National Taxpayer Advocate and serves as an advocate for taxpayers to the IRS and Congress. She served on the Textile Museum's Advisory Council, and then was ...
When Design Burst From Cloth
Last summer, TSA organized a New York Textile Study Day, the highlight of which was a visit to the studio of Seth Tillett and Nicole Rauscher. Tillett and Rauscher have ...
2012 Founding Presidents Award Winners Announced
The TSA Founding Presidents Award for the best paper presented at the 2012 Symposium, Textiles & Politics, was jointly awarded to Miriam Ali-de Unzaga and Kirsty Robertson. FPA was established ...