Symposia

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles.Fifth Biennial Symposium, September 19-21, 1996.The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois ...

Contact, Crossover, ContinuityFourth Biennial Symposium, September 22-24, 1994. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, California ...

Textiles in Daily Life Third Biennial Symposium, September 24-26, 1992. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington ...

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 ...