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November, 2024 The R. L. Shep Memorial Book Award is now in its twenty-fourth year and the number of nominated books has grown substantially in recent award cycles. The award ...

The Textile Society of America is pleased to announce that Tyrrell Tapaha is the recipient of the 2022 Brandford/Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber Arts. Tyrrell Tapaha is a Dinéweaver ...

2024 Brandford/Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber Art Recipient Nastassja Swift is a multi-disciplinary artist redefining her use of portraiture through wool to create work that speaks to geographical histories, ...

This spring, three artists who have been awarded the Brandford/Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber have solo shows in New York City galleries and museums. Given since 1995 and administered ...

Nominate a book published in 2023 by May 22, 2024.  It is with gratitude and great respect that we honor and remember Robert Lee Shep by opening nominations for the 2024 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is with gratitude and great respect that we honor and remember Robert Lee Shep by opening nominations for the 2023 R.L. Shep Memorial Book Award. As Roy Hamilton writes ...

Dear members of the Textile Society of America, As your new Awards and Scholarships committee chairs, we write to introduce ourselves, to update you about upcoming opportunities, and—most importantly—to thank ...

The Textile Society of America is pleased to announce that Tyrrell Tapaha is the recipient of the 2022 Brandford/Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber Arts. Tyrrell Tapaha is a Dinéweaver ...

2022 Brandford/Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber Art Recipient The Textile Society of America is pleased to announce that Tyrrell Tapaha is the recipient of the 2022 Brandford/Elliott Award for ...

Image of book cover from Textiles in Burman Culture – Silkworm Books Textiles in Burman Culture is this year’s winner of the R.L. Shep Award. It was selected as the ...

Four books have been selected by TSA’s Shep Award Book Committee for a shortlist of titles published in 2021 under consideration for this year’s R. L. Shep Award. The four ...

Nominate a book published in 2021 by March 1, 2022. Given annually to a publication judged to be the best book in the field of ethnic textile studies, the award ...

The Textile Society of America is excited to announce the recipients of the 2021 Research Travel Grants. Established through the generosity of Elena Phipps (TSA President 2012-2014) and Alan Finkel, ...

by: Roy Hamilton Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End is the winner of this year’s R. L. Shep Award. TSA’s panel of judges selected it as the best book ...

To start off Textile Month 2021, Dr. Sharbreon Plummer and Cathy Stevulak host a conversation with 2019 TSA Fellow, Ruby Ghuznavi. Learn more about Ruby Ghuznavi's work on her TSA ...

The judges serving on TSA’s Book Award Committee have selected a shortlist of three titles for this year’s R. L. Shep Award, for books published in 2020. The three were ...

Nominate your mentors, and leaders, trailblazing artists, scholars and practitioners as 2021 Fellows of the Textile Society of America through 31st of July 2021. Nominate A Fellow Every two years, ...

By: Ayaka Sano, Student/New Professional Award Recipient Under the mission to foster greater exchange and dissemination of textile knowledge worldwide, the Textile Society of America’s 2020 symposium, organized virtually for ...

The Persian Carpet Tradition by P.R.J. Ford P. R. J. “Jim” Ford’s The Persian Carpet Tradition, from Hali Publications, is the winner of TSA’s R. L. Shep Award for the ...

Given annually to a publication judged to be the best book in the field of ethnic textile studies, the R.L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award consists of a cash prize ...

The Textile Society of America’s Brandford/Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber Art (BEA) honors the lives and work of the late and beloved fiber artists Joanne Segal Brandford and Lillian ...

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 ...

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, ...

Berkeley, CA—The Textile Society of America is pleased to announce that Ralph Isaacs is the recipient of the 2014 R.L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award for his book titled Sazigyo, ...

One of the 2014 Textile Society of America Symposium Planery Speaker's, Ann Hamilton will be awarded the National Medal of Arts on Thursday September 10th.  Hamilton was cited for work that ...

Nominations for the 2014 R.L. Shep Ethnic Textile Book Award are in and what an exciting list of works it includes! The annual Shep Book Award, recognizes the best book ...

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 ...

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 ...