TSA News
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 ...
Board Nominations Now Open
Nomination forms: Click to Nominate a Colleague Click to Nominate yourself TSA is soliciting nominations for the Board of Directors. Board positions open for the next Election cycle include the Vice President/President-Elect, ...
Velvets of Italy Tour 2013
The thing about experiences abroad looking back is it’s difficult to believe that they actually happened. It’s incredible to think that the tiny boot-shaped spot on your globe marked Italy ...
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 ...
Call for Art – A Juried Exhibition of the Textile Society of America
New Directions A Juried Exhibition of the Textile Society of America September 13, 2014 – January 4, 2015 Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles In conjunction with the Textile ...
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 ...
Textiles and Tourism: Vietnam
Earlier this summer I had the good fortune to take a group of students to Vietnam for a class titled “Food, Fashion, and Art through Tourism: Imagining the Nation of ...
TSA Announces Winner of Annual R.L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Berkeley, CA—Editors of Chinese Silks, Feng Zhao and Dieter Kuhn, have been awarded the R.L Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award for 2012. In 2000 the Textile Society ...
Textile Artists Shine at the International Folk Art Market-Santa Fe
By Mary Littrell Question: What ensues when 180 artists from 60 countries join with 1,700 organizational volunteers and 22,000 shoppers? Answer: The 10th International Folk Art Market of Santa Fe, ...
President’s Blog
July 12, 2013 Last night I attended the opening in Chelsea of very intriguing show. Curated by Terry Winters, a New York painter, the show is called Roving Signs. It ...
Best wishes to Char Cosby, Manager of the National Office since 2007
Charlotte Cosby, our manager of the TSA National Office since 2007 is leaving TSA on June 30. Char has been an incredible asset to the organization over the last six ...
TSA Welcomes New Executive Director
TSA is growing. Our diverse membership of artists, scholars, curators, teachers, conservators, dealers, collectors, and students continues to expand. At the same time, we are developing new systems and new ...
Presidents Blog, June 12, 2013
Well, Paris is nice, but New York also has a lot to offer in the textile world. Today at MOMA I was curious about the different textile-related art that might ...
Textiles Close Up: Indonesia at the Yale University Art Gallery
"It is always women who weave in Southeast Asia.” Dr. Barnes explained that because women are associated with fertility, by extension so are their textiles. At weddings, the gift from ...