Symposia

Crosscurrents: Land, Labor, and the Port Textile Society of America's 15th Biennial Symposium Savannah, GA, October 19-23, 2016Organized in Partnership with Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) About The ...
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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 ...
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New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future, The upcoming biennial Symposium in Los Angeles, explores change and innovation in textiles in the past while looking at the state of the ...
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Saturday, September 13 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Bing Auditorium 9:00am-10:15am Plenary: Textiles in Museums Chair: Sharon Takeda, head of Department of Costume and Textiles, LACMA 1. Lynne ...
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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 ...
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Thursday, September 11, 5:00-8:00pm Academic Program Chair Roy Hamilton has organized a special program to take place at the Fowler Museum highlighting aspects of the Museum’s textile collections. Curators from ...
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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 ...
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Last week I took a trip down to Los Angeles to meet two of our board members—President Elena Phipps and Director of Internal Relations Ann Svenson—to join in symposium planning ...
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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 ...
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1990 Proceedings: 
Textiles in Trade (OUT-OF-PRINT)Second Biennial Symposium, September 14-16, 1990. Washington, DC ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles.Fifth Biennial Symposium, September 19-21, 1996.The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois ...
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Contact, Crossover, ContinuityFourth Biennial Symposium, September 22-24, 1994. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, California ...
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Textiles in Daily Life Third Biennial Symposium, September 24-26, 1992. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington ...
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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 ...
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