Programs

TSA’s Lab Session #2
Calling all emerging textile artists, researchers, curators, and makers! The next Lab gathering is on Friday Oct. 6th at 9:30am PT/12:30pm ET/5:30pm BT via Zoom. Do you want a chance ...

TSA’s 2023 Colloquium
(re)Imagining Futures: Shifting Methodologies (re)Imagining Futures: Shifting Methodologies Textile Society of America Colloquium SeriesOctober 30, 202310:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. EDT The Textile Society of America is delighted to announce ...

Introducing the Lab
The Lab practice pitch session for TSA Colloquium Date: Friday, July 14 Time: 9:30am PST/12:30pm EST/5:30pm BST Attention all soon-to-be, new, and recent-ish graduates and school-eschewing professionals, we want to ...

Get involved at TSA
Mentorship Are you an established professional? Excited to share your experience in textiles or offer solidarity to fellow textile professionals? BE A MENTOR OR A PEER MENTOR Are you an ...

2023 TSA Colloquium Announcement
Through the 2022 (re)Claiming Futures and the upcoming 2023 (re)Imagining Futures: Shifting Methodologies colloquium series, we look to the wider field of textile cultures to amplify the work of our ...

Registration Open for (re)claiming futures session 4: (re)claiming our past, present, and future by writing, telling and living our own stories
Please join the Textile Society of America on November 1, 2022, for our fourth session in the (re)claiming futures colloquium series. November is American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month ...

Contemporary Voices: Jovencio de la Paz
PROGRAM INFO Contemporary Voices: Jovencio de la Paz Tuesday, October 11, 2022 7 – 8 p.m. EDT / 4 – 5 p.m. PDT Join artist Jovencio de la Paz online ...

Registration Open for Session 3 Cripping Disability: Transforming Meanings and Practices Through Textiles
Join the Textile Society of America for this online colloquium showcasing (re)claimed narratives and histories of textile creation, practice, and study. In these presentations and panel discussions, innovative artists and ...

Announcing Session 3 and 4 of the TSA Colloquium Series (re)claiming futures
Join the Textile Society of America for this online colloquium showcasing (re)claimed stories/narratives and histories of textile creation, practice, and study. In these presentations and panel discussions, innovative artists and ...

Contemporary Voices: Fabiola Jean-Louis
Online program Tuesday, September 13 7–8 pm EDT / 4–5pm PDT Join artist Fabiola Jean-Louis for a discussion of her ongoing exploration of the relationship between history, memory and identity ...

Surviving Blackness in America: Quilts as Political Statement
In honor of Juneteenth this year, TSA is privileged to make available to the public a recording of the second event in our 2022 colloquium series, (re)claiming futures. Titled “Surviving ...

Registration Open for Session 2: TSA Colloquium Series (re)claiming futures
Series DescriptionJoin the Textile Society of America for this online colloquium showcasing (re)claimed stories/narratives and histories of textile creation, practice, and study. In these presentations and panel discussions, innovative artists ...

Registration Open for Session 1: TSA Colloquium Series (re)claiming futures
Series DescriptionJoin the Textile Society of America for this online colloquium showcasing (re)claimed stories/narratives and histories of textile creation, practice, and study. In these presentations and panel discussions, innovative artists ...

Member News: Special Issue of the Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice
The recently published special issue of the Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice (volume 9, issue 3) is the second collaboration between the Textile Society of America and the ...

Mark Your Calendar: “Contemporary Voices” Artist Talks Spring 2022 Series
by: Caroline Kipp The Textile Society of America, in partnership with The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, is delighted to present the spring season of Contemporary Voices ...

Mark Your Calendar: “Contemporary Voices” Artist Talks Fall 2021 Series
by: Caroline Kipp The Textile Society of America in partnership with The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum is delighted to present the fall season of Contemporary Voices ...

Melissa Cody
2020 Brandford/Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber Art Recipient Melissa Cody is a textile artist from the Navajo Nation of northern Arizona. Cody’s career spans over two decades and is ...

Affinity Groups
The Textile Society of America’s Affinity Groups provide a forum to connect with others in the textiles field with similar interests. These virtual meetings are hosted on Zoom by the ...

Mark Your Calendar: “Contemporary Voices” Artist Talks Series
Written by Caroline Kipp The Textile Society of America with the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum are delighted to present their new program Contemporary Voices. Focused on ...

Museum from Home at SJMQT
By Amy DiPlacido Since the temporary closure of San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in March 2020, many people have asked me, “Now that the museum is closed, what ...

The Craft Economy
On July 2nd, TSA hosted its first of many Affinity Group Conversations focused on the craft economy. I worked alongside Mimi Robinson, a textile designer and author, to launch this ...

Joanne Brandford
Joanne Segal Brandford was born in Philadelphia in 1933. She received her BA in decorative art in 1955 and her MA in design in 1967 from UC Berkeley, with Ed ...

Lillian Elliott
Lillian Wolock Elliott was born in Detroit in 1930. She received her B.A. in Art Education in 1952 from Wayne State University and her M.F.A. in 1955 from Cranbrook Academy ...

Brandford/Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber Art
About the Award The Brandford/Elliott Award for Excellence in Fiber was established to honor the lives and work of the late and beloved fiber artists Joanne Segal Brandford and Lillian ...

Frances Dorsey
1995 Lillian Elliott Award Recipient Recent Work - 2016 "Cloth speaks so eloquently perhaps because it receives one's impulse and then always replies, pushes back - often in an unexpected ...

Marcie Miller Gross
1996 Lillian Elliott Award Recipient Recent Work - 2014 "Within my site responsive objects, installations and drawings, I am fascinated with the interplay between the spatial, conceptual and architectonic conditions ...

Kyoung Ae Cho
1997 Lillian Elliott Award Recipient Recent Work - 2016 Kyoung Ae states, "Nature has been conducting continuous experiments into processes, and has been doing it for millions of years. The ...

Tomoko Ishida
1998 Lillian Elliott Award Recipient Recent Work - 2018 "When I touch, hold, release, hold again, and watch the paper in front of me, with just this simple movement, my ...

Sonya Clark
2000 Lillian Elliott Award Recipient Recent Work - 2018, 2016 Over 250 people have stood shoulder to shoulder with the artist to unravel the contentious flag. It's a slow, arduous, ...

Soonran Youn
2002 Lillian Elliott Award Recipient Recent Work - 2016 "Figurative forms constructed in parametric linear structures that contain space within reside in the existential field where the self and the ...