TSA Symposia are held in different locations around the US and Canada, allowing a broad number of participants to explore regional specialties. Some of the venues have included Hawaii, New Mexico, Toronto, LA, New York, Chicago, Northhampton.
Symposium 2020 – Hidden Stories/Human Lives
Recorded Sessions are now available for viewing on Youtube. The theme Hidden Stories/Human Lives presents opportunities to reveal complex and ...
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 ...
Symposium 2014 – New Directions
September 10 – Sunday, September 14, 2014 The theme of the Symposium, New Directions: Examining the Past, Creating the Future, ...
Symposium 2016 – Crosscurrents
Crosscurrents: Land, Labor, and the Port Textile Society of America's 15th Biennial Symposium Savannah, GA, October 19-23, 2016Organized in Partnership ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Symposium 2004
Co-Chairs: Inez Brooks-Myers and Susan Tselos The theme of the symposium was "Appropriation, Acculturation, Transformation." Emphasis was on the way ...
Symposium 2002
Smith College and Northampton, Massachusetts, hosted the Textile Society of America Eighth Biennial Symposium, Silk Roads, Other Roads. Concurrent with ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
