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Registration for the 2024 TSA Symposium is now open for presenters
This page provides registration rates, information, and a form for the 2024 TSA Symposium, "Shifts and Strands: Rethinking Possibilities and Potentials of Textiles." Registration is only open to presenters now ...
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Registration for the 2024 TSA Symposium
This page provides information about registration rates for the 2024 TSA Symposium, "Shifts and Strands: Rethinking Possibilities and Potentials of Textiles." Registration is not open yet. Registration opens on July ...
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TSA Symposium: Submissions Portal is Open
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 ...
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TSA Symposium “Office Hours” and Mentorship Sessions
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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Call for Participation
Call for Submissions deadline has passed. Textile Society of America 2024 SymposiumShifts and Strands: Rethinking the Possibilities and Potentials of TextilesNovember 12-17, 2024Virtual on Zoom View this information in an ...
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Announcing Symposium 2024—Shifts and Strands
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 ...
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Symposium 2024 – Shifts and Strands
Textile Society of America2024 SymposiumShifts and Strands: Rethinking the Possibilities and Potentials of TextilesNovember 12-17, 2024Virtual on Zoom Theme & Mission The theme “Shifts and Strands: Rethinking the Possibilities and ...
Recorded Sessions from Hidden Stories/Human Lives, TSA’s 2020 Biennial Symposium, are now available for viewing.
TSA is pleased to share video recordings from nearly all sessions from our 2020 Symposium. Thanks to our virtual format, we were able to easily capture recordings and share much more content than ever before. These video recordings are ...
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Symposium Session Review: Connection and misconnections: The benefits and pitfalls of craftivism. A review of Session 6C, Individual Papers: Craftivism
by: Emily J. Oertling, Student/New Professional Award Recipient The individual papers presented in Session 6C: Craftivism shed light on the complexity of crafting for a cause. The presenters' critical perspectives ...
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Symposium Session Review: Immigrant Labor in Asiatic Silk Production
by: Tayana Fincher, Student/New Professional Award Recipient The role of immigrant labor in silk production between West and Southeast Asia was the subject of a session during the TSA’s 17th ...
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Symposium Review: Coded Communications: Digital Weaving as Artistic Technology
by: Anie Toole, Student/New Professional Award Recipient Coded Communications: Digital Weaving as Artistic Technology was one of the concurrent sessions on the first day of the 17th Textile Society of ...
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Symposium Review: Japanese Traditional Crafts
By: Ayaka Sano, Student/New Professional Award Recipient Under the mission to foster greater exchange and dissemination of textile knowledge worldwide, the Textile Society of America’s 2020 symposium, organized virtually for ...
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Session Recordings
As a benefit of this year's virtual format, we were able to record video of all sessions, and will be able to share nearly all of them at the discretion ...
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Download the Full Program
When we meet in person, TSA distributes a printed program booklet. This year, we offer this document as a downloadable PDF. Open to read abstracts and bios for all sessions, ...
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Film Sessions
Each day will end with a film presentation. Symposium attendees will stream the videos on their own, and then join the presenters for a Q&A session Olimpia Newman, Colcha Circle: ...
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Member Monday with Magali An Berthon
Preparation of a polychromic weft ikat at IKTT, Chot Sam village, Siem Reap, personal picture, 2016. In preparation for our upcoming symposium, we would like to introduce our members to ...
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Virtual Symposium FAQ
The Textile Society of America is excited to present our biennial symposium virtually this year. While we recognize the value of meeting face-to-face, we hope that this year’s meeting will ...
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Keynote & Plenary Sessions
Keynote Speaker Sanford Biggers. Photo credit: Matthew Morocco Sanford Biggers Lenore G. Tawney/TSA Keynote Address [Sanford Biggers' talk was cancelled due to a family emergency. We are planning to reschedule ...
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Symposium 2020 – Hidden Stories/Human Lives
Recorded Sessions are now available for viewing on Youtube. The theme Hidden Stories/Human Lives presents opportunities to reveal complex and hidden stories of global textile making and coincides with the ...
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Call For Vendors
Handwoven Scarf, image courtesy Kalabandar Deadline Extended: Applications Due April 25th Marketplace Applications Due March 5th TSA invites vendors to sell their wearable art, ethnic textiles, textile construction tools and ...
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Members Exhibition
CLICK HERE TO APPLY Deadline: April 1, 2020 Extended to April 15th. Drawing on the theme Hidden Stories/Human Lives, TSA will sponsor a member’s juried exhibition that reflects the Symposium ...
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Registration
Registration Timeline: Registration opens Aug 17thRegistration deadline for presenters: September 15thRegistration closes Oct 14th Registration is closed Full Symposium registration gives you access to twelve concurrent sessions, keynote and plenary ...
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Recorded Sessions
Watch videos recorded at past symposia. Links will take you to external sites. 2020 Biennial Symposium: Hidden Stories/Human Lives 2018 Biennial Symposium: The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global ...
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Past Symposia
TSA Symposia are held in different locations around the US and Canada, allowing a broad number of participants to explore regional specialties. Some of the venues have included Hawaii, New ...
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Abstract Writing Tips
For First-Time Submitters What is an abstract? An abstract is a short 300-word summary of the content of your presentation that tells readers what the presentation will be about and ...
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Awards & Scholarships
Need-Based Registration Fee Waivers for Presenters and Attendees APPLY FOR ATTENDEE FEE WAIVER HERE Financial aid applications for presenters are closed A limited amount of financial aid in the form ...