TSA News
Review of TSA’s Juried Exhibition New Directions by Hadley W. Jensen
Review of TSA’s Juried Exhibition New Directions: A Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Textiles By Hadley W. Jensen,SNPA recipient New Directions at CAFAM is not only visually stunning, but also indicative ...
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 ...
Stromata: The Carpet as Artifact, Concept & Metaphor in Literature & the Arts
Stromata: The Carpet as Artifact, Concept & Metaphor in Literature, Science & the Arts Florence, Italy, Nov 3-6, 2014 Conference Reviewed by Elena Phipps  An ambitious conference in the ...
Rojo Mexicano/Mexican Red: International Colloquium on Cochineal
Rojo Mexicano/Mexican Red: International Colloquium on Cochineal in Art Palacio de Bellas Artes and ENCRyM, Mexico City, Nov 11-14, 2014 Reviewed by Elena Phipps Organized by the Museo del Palacio ...
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 ...
Session Review ”Textiles in China” by Mei Rado
”Textiles in China: Identity, Literacy & Communication” by Mei Rado, SNPA Recipient Chinese textiles and dress constitute a relatively understudied field in art history, textile history, and fashion studies. While ...
A Review of ‘Material Magic’ by Whitney Artell
Material Magic A Review of Clare Graham & MorYork: The Answer is Yes by Whitney Artell, SNPA recipient Pop tops, old teddy bears, paint by numbers, and bottle caps are ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Colorful Journey by Ngoc Anh Luu Dam
A Colorful Journey by Ngoc Anh Luu Dam, SNPA Recipient  Natural dye was featured at the workshop titled “Early Dyebooks and the Investigation of the Science of Color” held ...
TSA’s Inaugural Juried Exhibition
Hosted by the Craft & Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles by Eulanda Sanders The 2014 TSA Symposium, New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future, concluded on September 13th ...
Interlocking Regions A Session Review by Sarah Baitzel
Interlocking Regions A Session Review by Sarah Baitzel, SNPA recipient The role of archaeological textiles in understanding regional interaction in the pre-Columbian Andes was the subject of a Friday morning, ...
Post-Symposium Tour Review Kay: Sekimachi Retrospective & Asian Textiles
Kay Sekimachi Retrospective & Asian Textiles at the Mingei Balboa Park, San Diego. Sunday September 14, 2014 by Barbara Shapiro Expert guides and special guests: Kay Sekimachi, Signe Mayfield, Sarah ...
Founding Presidents Awardees at the 14th Biennial Symposium
by Roxane Shaughnessy, Chair of 2014 FPA Awards Committee The Founding Presidents Award was inaugurated in 2008 to recognize excellence in the field of textile studies and to ensure that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Member News: Artist Gerhardt Knodel opens “Let the Games Begin!” at Wasserman Projects
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 ...
Letter from the President: SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM—part 1
MAC ARTHUR FELLOWS SPEAKERS The Symposium is coming up very soon and we are all gearing up for an amazing series of events. Today I wanted to share with you ...
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 ...
Letter from TSA President, Elena Phipps : New Board Roles
Dear Members, There have been a couple of changes to the standing Board of Directors which I would like to share with you. At our March meeting, the Board agreed ...
Member News: The Kentucky Historical Society’s Churchill Weavers Collection By Jennifer Spence
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 ...
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 ...
TSA at College Art Association: A Message from The President
College Art Association is coming up February 12-15, 2014 in Chicago. Its always heartening to see textiles presented in this context, and this year there are a number of panels ...
Member News: a new book by Cynthia Fowler Ph.D.
Hooked Rugs: Encounters in American Modern Art, Craft and Design (Ashgate, 2013) is an examination of hooked rugs in America during the interwar years with a focus on the relationship between ...
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 ...
FIBER VISIONS by Janis Jefferies
Fiber Visions is the first edition of Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, inaugurated as a cyclical exhibition in September 2013 in the capital of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. This ...
R.L. Shep Memorial Book Award
Nominations for the R.L. Shep Memorial Book Award are now open! Given annually to a publication judged to be the best book in the field of global cultural heritage textile ...
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 ...