TSA News

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

Louise W. Mackie announced her retirement from the Cleveland Museum of Art, where she has served as Curator of Textiles and Islamic Art since 1998. Her last day was Friday, ...

Talking Textiles Seminar, Tuesday, November 17, from 1:00 to 5:00 pm, NCY Dorothy Waxman, member of Textile Society of America and resident of New York City, invites members to attend ...

Coby Foundation Awards nearly $400,000 to Fashion and Textile Projects.  Exhibitions of American Romantic Era Fashions, African Textiles and New York City Hatmakers receive funding in 2014 The Coby Foundation, ...

CALIFORNIA The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA. Mar. 13- Nov. 1, 2015 “Woven Luxuries: Indian, Persian, and Turkish Velvets from the Indictor Collection.” Silk velvets have been preeminent luxury ...

Elena Phipps. “Inka Textile Traditions and Their Colonial Counterparts,” in Izumi Shimada ed. The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture ...

CALIFORNIA Slow Fiber Studios, Berkeley, CA. Jul. 26 – Aug. 16, 2015 Jiro Yonezawa will be leading a series of lectures, bamboo jewelry workshops, and basketry workshops hosted by Slow ...

Dominique Cardon has been awarded the Silver Shuttle by the NGO « Tours Cité de la Soie » (Tours, City of Silk) last February 19, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts ...

CAA returns to New York in 2015 for its 103rd Annual Conference. The conference will be held at the Hilton New York from Wednesday, February 11 to Saturday, February 14 ...

 New York Material in Motion, 10th biennial North American Textile Conservation Conference (NATCC), New York, NY. Nov. 16-20, 2015 The tenth biennial NATCC will be held in New York City ...

California Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Oct 11, 2014 “Storytelling Through Thread”: The Los Angeles-based artist Karen Hampton uses the art of embroidery, coupled with found textiles, to ...

Wendy Weiss has been awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar grant to continue her research in Gujarat, India during the 2014-2015 academic year. Her project title is “Documentation and Design Development ...

Ethnic Dress in the United States: A Cultural Encyclopedia featuring a contribution by TSA Board Member Laura Camerlengo. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic ...

California Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles, Berkeley, CA Jacqueline Davidson has donated her collection of knotted-netting and related items, including netted textiles, netting, needlework tools, and books about lace ...

Thrums LLC, formerly Interweave Press LLC of Loveland, has donated the editorial archives of Fiberarts magazine to the Morgan Library Archives & Special Collections at Colorado State University in Fort ...

Gerhardt Knodel is a renowned contemporary textile artist, member of TSA, and a juror for TSA's New Directions: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Textiles opening at the Craft & Folk Art ...

Jennifer Spence, a TSA member, oversee's the processing of the Churchill Weavers fabric archive at the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort, KY.  Specialists at the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) are ...