Symposia
Opening Reception
Wednesday, September 19, 7:00 PM-10:00 PM at the UBC Museum of Anthropology Welcome and Introductions, 7:45 PM The Museum of Anthropology acknowledges that it is built on the traditional, ancestral ...
Evening at Granville Island
Friday, Sept. 21; 5:45 pm - 9:30 pm In the early 1900s, Granville Island was home to factories and sawmills. Rejuvenated in the 1970s, it has been touted as a ...
Sponsors & Donors
The TSA symposium would not be possible without our donors and sponsors who support the programs that make this biennial event such an amazing experience. We are very pleased that ...
Gallery Hop Evening
Thursday, Sept. 20; 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm On Thursday evening Symposium attendees have the option to visit textile exhibitions especially mounted by local galleries to coincide with the TSA ...
Workshops & Tours
Pre-Symposium Workshops Rediscovering the Potential of Warp Limited to 12 participantsLocation: MakerlabsTime: This is a two-day workshop. Tuesday September 18, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm and Wednesday September 19, 9:00 ...
Keynote & Plenary
Lenore G. Tawney/TSA Keynote Address Thursday September 20th, 8:15 am - 10:00 am Meghann O'Brien, "Threads That Do Not Break" Keynote Speaker Meghann O'Brien. Photo credit: Stasia Garraway Drawing from ...
Exhibitions
TSA Members’ Exhibition Member exhibitions of contemporary artwork are relatively new to TSA. These visual displays have come as a response to the increased numbers of textile artists who are ...
Symposium 2018 – The Social Fabric
The 2018 Textile Society of America Symposium will take place in Vancouver, BC, Canada, at the Sheraton Wall Centre. To maximize scholarly interchange, the Symposium will consist of multiple, concurrent ...
Symposium 2014 – New Directions
September 10 – Sunday, September 14, 2014 The theme of the Symposium, New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future, explores change and innovation in textiles in the past while ...
Aesthetics of Pleasure
By Dr. Yolanda Sánchez Born in Havana, Cuba, Dr. Sánchez immigrated to the United States in February 1960. She obtained a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Florida State University and has ...
Embroidery and Bondage
By Erlend Helling-Larsen Erlend Helling-Larsen is a Norwegian artist who studied at the Oslo School of Painting and Drawing and at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where he received a Bachelor ...
Common Coin
By Joshua Callandret Joshua Callandret is a writer residing in Savannah Georgia. He develops online courses for the Savannah College of Art and Design while also pursuing his MFA in ...
Reflections
By Margaret Hubert Margaret Hubert started in the needle arts business in 1963, as co-owner of a small yarn shop. She later became the needlework instructor for Bloomingdale’s in White Plains, ...
A Feminist Pedagogy through the Sociopolitical Stitch
By Laura Sapelly Laura Elizabeth Sapelly's research merges her background in fiberarts, women's history, feminist theory, and art education. While earning her Ph.D. at Penn State, she related the pedagogical significance ...
Falling In Love Again: A Continuing Mystery about Stitched Glass
By Sam Norgard Sam Norgard grew up working in her family-run flower shop. By her grandmother’s side, she learned design, quality crafts(wo)manship and humor. A long career of university teaching ...
A City’s History and a Family’s History Woven Together in Poland
By Mirka Knaster Mirka Knaster, Ph.D., creates contemporary textile art in a studio overlooking the Pacific Ocean in northern California. Growing up cross-culturally and living and/or traveling across the world’s continents, ...
True Colors of Plants
By Lin Hsin-Chen Lin Hsin-Chen is the founder of Taiwan Art Quilt Society (TAQS). Born and raised in Taiwan, she is a fiber artist and an independent curator who has been ...
Women’s Writing – Miao Batik
By Diana Chen Diana Chen is an artist, educator, and art critic, who was born in Guizhou, China. She received her Master's degree in Art and Art Education from Columbia University, ...
The Impact of Silk in the Middle Ages
By Stephen Wagner Stephen Wagner is a professor of art history at the Savannah College of Art and Design. His area of interest is art and architecture of the Middle ...
Wandering Around, With Water, With Paper
By Nancy Cohen Nancy Cohen’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and is represented in important collections, such as The Montclair Museum, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Yale ...
Textiles and Ports
By Iviva Olenick Iviva Olenick is a Brooklyn born and based artist and educator. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in French Language and Literature/Psychology from Binghamton University, and an ...
Tracking Traditional Appliqué to Its Source
By Patricia Malarcher Patricia Malarcher is a studio artist and independent writer. She has exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and has work in museum, corporate, and ...
Parallel Threads: Sweden and United States
By Helena Hernmarck Helena Hernmarck is a Swedish-born tapestry artist and weaver best known for her monumental tapestries designed for architectural settings. Her designs derive from sources ranging from photographs, ...
Oryza glaberrima
From top: Jill Kinnear, "With Grains in her Hair" (linocut) and "Oryza glaberrima" (linocut) By Jill Kinnear Jill Kinnear received her initial degree in textiles from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, ...
What does it mean to arrive in a port?
Port of Charleston Text by Janis Jefferies; photography by Kelly Thompson Janis Jefferies is an artist, writer and curator, Professor of Visual Arts and Research, Research Fellow at the Constance Howard ...
Join us for “Textiles in Town and Country in Early South Carolina”
In the colonial and antebellum periods, South Carolina’s wealth was shaped not only by the products of plantation agriculture but also by the commerce of a dynamic urban center. By ...
Welcome and Introduction to the 2016 Textile Society of America Symposium Blog
by Deborah First and Anne Swartz, Professors at Savannah College of Art and Design In October, members of the Textile Society of America (TSA) will travel to Savannah, Georgia to ...