Symposia
Remembering the Velvet Workshop at the TSA Symposium 2012
A Day in Figured Velvet: Technique, Pattern, Loom was a highly informative workshop held at the TSA Conference held this summer in Washington, DC. The workshop was led by Julie ...
Symposium 1990 – Textiles in Trade
1990 Proceedings:
Textiles in Trade (OUT-OF-PRINT)Second Biennial Symposium, September 14-16, 1990. Washington, DC ...
Symposium 2012 – Textiles and Politics
Throughout human history and across the globe, whether as intimate artifacts of interpersonal relations or state-level monumental works, textiles have been imbued with political importance. Textiles can communicate and construct ...
Symposium 2010 – Textiles and Settlement
The 2010 TSA Symposium, Textiles and Settlement: From Plains Space to Cyber Space, was held in Lincoln, Nebraska (Home of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Textiles, Clothing & Design, ...
Symposium 2008 – Textiles as Cultural Expressions
Hawaii is the most geographically isolated island chain in the world and a crossroad of cultures between the East and West. As the melting pot of the Pacific, Hawaii’s diverse ...
Symposium 2006 – Textile Narratives and Conversations
Co-chairs: Nataley Nagy, Executive Director of the Textile Museum of Canada, and Frances Dorsey, fiber artist (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design) Toronto, Ontario, Canada was the site of ...
Symposium 2004
Co-Chairs: Inez Brooks-Myers and Susan Tselos The theme of the symposium was "Appropriation, Acculturation, Transformation." Emphasis was on the way the human activities (such as trade or war) influence the ...
Symposium 2002
Smith College and Northampton, Massachusetts, hosted the Textile Society of America Eighth Biennial Symposium, Silk Roads, Other Roads. Concurrent with the symposium, Northampton has begun a year-long celebration of the ...
Symposium 2000 – Approaching Textiles, Varying Viewpoints
The Seventh Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America was held September 19-23, 2000 at the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The TSA 2000 Symposium theme, ...
Symposium 1998 – Creating Textiles: Makers, Methods, Markets
Sixth Biennial Symposium. September 24-26, 1998. Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, New York. This symposium was structured to encourage participants to explore the varied textile resources in New York ...
Symposium 1996 -Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles
Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles.Fifth Biennial Symposium, September 19-21, 1996.The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois ...
Symposium 1994 – Contact, Crossover, Continuity
Contact, Crossover, ContinuityFourth Biennial Symposium, September 22-24, 1994. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, California ...
Symposium 1992 – Textiles in Daily Life
Textiles in Daily Life Third Biennial Symposium, September 24-26, 1992. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington ...
Symposium 1988 – Textiles as Primary Sources
First Biennial Symposium, September 16-18, 1988. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Textiles as Primary Sources: Strategies and Methodologies for Gathering and Extracting Data ...
