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You Spoke, We Listened: TSA Programs Are Back
The Textile Society of America is excited to offer a dynamic lineup of in-person and virtual programs that connect textile enthusiasts across regions, generations, and traditions. From hands-on workshops and ...
Textiles Close Up Returns + Research Travel Grant Now Open
The Textile Society of America is pleased to announce the return of Textiles Close Up—TSA’s signature in-person program offering participants rare, behind-the-scenes access to textile collections, exhibitions, and contemporary practices ...
Keynote Sessions: Artists Up Close
Please join us for “Artists Up Close,” a dynamic series of virtual studio visits and artist conversations featuring Nastassja Swift, Ai Kijima, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, and José Santiago Pérez. Tyrrell ...
Announcing the 2024 Recipient of the Brandford/Elliott Award: Nastassja Swift
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 ...
Miami Art Week: A Textile Recap
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 ...
Fall 2023 Textile Events
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 ...
Textile Tuesday: Resist Painting in Art Kimono
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, ...
Textile Tuesday:Toxic Textiles in Libraries
Judging a book by its cover Image: Emerald green bookcloth with discolored spine. Courtesy of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers ...
Spring 2023 Textile Events
From book clubs to the history of sewing machines, TSA shares some of our textile event recommendations for this Spring season! Anne Lindberg’s immersive installation what color is divine light? ...
Textile Tuesday: An Introduction to Carrickmacross Lace
By A. Zarinah Nuri Traditional Carrickmacross lace techniques (detail). Courtesy Theresa Kelly The rhythmic pulling and pushing of needle and thread through layers of cloth can calm anxieties and evoke ...
Textile Tuesday: Qualeasha Wood
Qualeasha Wood is a textile artist whose work contemplates realities around black female bodies, contemporary technology, and consumption. Meet this young artist reimagining craft in a digital era. Qualeasha Wood ...
Textile Tuesday with LaShawnda Crowe Storm for “Past is Present”
Artist LaShawnda Crowe Storm presents her contribution to "Past Is Present," an exhibition curated by Jonathan Square ...
Announcing the 2022 Recipient of the Brandford/Elliott Award: Tyrell Tapaha
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 ...
Textile Tuesday at the Walters Art Museum, The Abduction of Helen Series
Abduction of Helen series. Dario di Giovanni (ca. 1420–before 1498) and collaborators, The Departure of Helen and Her Entourage for Cythera. empera and Pressbrokat on spruce. The Walters Art Museum, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
TEXTILE CLOSE UP: INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART MARKET by Dr. Margaret Gbemi Areo
TEXTILE CLOSE UP: INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART MARKET – SANTA FE, JULY, 9 – 12, 2015 The Santa Fe Textile Close Up began on Thursday evening with an interactive session, involving ...
TCU Santa Fe: Last Chance to Register!
Craft & Social Enterprise Close Up July 9- 13, 2015 International Folk Art Market & Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico Registration Closes May 1st Expert guides: ...
Review of TCU in Toronto by Alejandra Gómez Colorado
Alejandra Gomex Colorado was the TSA scholarship recipient for this program. She is a Social Anthropologist specializing in Islamic Art and Culture. She is professor and curator for the Middle East collections at Museo ...
Letter from TSA’s New President Roxane Shaughnessy
Dear Members and Friends, Just over a month ago many of us were enjoying the shared excitement of joining together on the beautiful UCLA campus, and participating in the 14th ...
Textiles Close Up – African Textiles by Harini Ramaswamy
A Review of TSA's program Textiles Close Up: Historic and Contemporary African Textiles that took place at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the home of Joanne Eicher in Minneapolis, ...
Textiles Up Close- Islamic Textiles- April 25, 2014 by Heather Bell
We all had a wonderful day at the newly renovated Cleveland Museum of Art April 25th for the Textiles Up Close Islamic Textiles seminar. There were fourteen participants from as ...
The Peruvian Four Selvaged Cloth by Sophia Winitsky
A report on Up-Close with Peruvian Four-Selvaged Cloth, a program of the Textile Society of America. On January 13, 2014 textile artists, collectors and enthusiasts gathered at the Fowler Museum ...
Textiles Close Up at the Metropolitan Museum by Kirstin Purtich
November 15’s Textiles Close Up program provided a great opportunity to hear from the team of curators responsible for the Metropolitan Museum’s exhibition Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Trade, 1500-1800. A ...
A Member’s Report from TSA’s Velvets in Italy Study Tour
This photo shows one area of Fondazione Arte Della Seta Lisio in Florence where 4 of us attended a 3-day workshop and got to weave on one of the velvet ...
Textiles Close Up Revisits the 18th-Century Textile Revolution
The fifteen participants in TSA's Textiles Close Up #2, gathered for a close look at painted and printed textiles from India and Europe on the Museum of Fine Arts Boston ...
A New TSA Program: TEXTILES CLOSE UP
THE TEXTILE SOCIETY OF AMERICA IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE A NEW PROGRAM: TEXTILES CLOSE UP Textiles Close Up is an exciting new series of study-workshops that will provide opportunities to ...
