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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 ...

Through her academic work and creative practice, Dr. Marion Coe sheds light on the often-overlooked realm of "women's crafts" and their profound cultural significance. Specializing in the textiles of prehistoric ...

Multidisciplinary artist Jessy Nite specializes in interactive, experiential and site-specific installations, recently exploring typography through paracord, a lightweight nylon rope. Through a process of intricate knotting, and layered text, Nite ...

A renown weaver, Janice Lessman-Moss' work is a meditation on universal patterns and order. Her dynamic constructions offer a point of entry and marked presence along a shared and unfolding ...

View this post as an accessible PDF The submission portal for the TSA Symposium is now open! TSA is accepting proposals for individual presentations, chaired sessions, panel discussions and roundtable ...

Through all of her work as historic Interpreter, Creole culture activist, registered teaching artist, and event producer, Dianne Honoré is deeply rooted in Louisiana. In this conversation with TSA Digital ...

Upcoming sessions: Feb. 26th (9-10am CT) Feb. 27th (8-9pm CT) Would you like to present your work at the 2024 TSA Symposium? The portal to submit your proposal for the ...

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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 ...

With a bounty of both in-person and virtual textile events, TSA shares some of our recommendations for the Fall season! Exhibition Image, A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs ...

Calling all emerging textile artists, researchers, curators, and makers! The next Lab gathering is on Friday Oct. 6th at 9:30am PT/12:30pm ET/5:30pm BT via Zoom. Do you want a chance ...

(re)Imagining Futures: Shifting Methodologies (re)Imagining Futures: Shifting Methodologies Textile Society of America Colloquium SeriesOctober 30, 202310:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. EDTLocation: Zoom The Textile Society of America is delighted to ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was introduced to Eva Palmer while researching the life of Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos. Palmer, an American actor and philhellene, was married to Sikelianos from 1907 to 1934, and ...

The TSA Glossary Project is a new initiative aimed at creating a digital platform for investigating and sharing the language of textiles. In line with TSA’s commitment to ongoing equity ...

Of our many workings of the material, flags have long held significant importance as symbols of national identity, sovereignty, and unity. Even as we collectively and individually contemplate (and often ...

The Lab practice pitch session for TSA Colloquium Date: Friday, July 14 Time: 9:30am PST/12:30pm EST/5:30pm BST Attention all soon-to-be, new, and recent-ish graduates and school-eschewing professionals, we want to ...

Recent international research on Japanese modernism of the early 20th century has set the stage for a more critical look at one of the most brilliant manifestations of that modernism, ...

Member Listening Session on TSA programming TSA members are invited to participate in a conversation and listening session about future programming with TSA leadership and Board members Wednesday, June 28th, ...

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 ...

Following a national search, TSA is thrilled to welcome artist, administrator, and entrepreneur Anita Enriquez (she/her) to the position of Contract Administrative Coordinator and to the Textile Society of America ...

TSA members are invited to participate in a community conversation and listening session with TSA leadership and Board members on Thursday, May 25th, from 10am-11am CST. This will be an ...