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 TSA’s Endowment from the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation (started in 2016), with it’s initial gift of $55,000, will continue to support symposia keynote speakers on a biennial basis. The Tawney Foundation also generously supported TSA scholarships in 2014. Lenore Tawney created the foundation in 1989 to provide support for charitable and educational purposes, including craft media.
We gratefully acknowledge the Robert and Ardis James Foundation for their continued support of the biennial symposium. In 2016, their gift of $10,000 supported our plenary speakers. In 2018 their $15,000 gift will support the recording of sessions as well as the dissemination of proceedings making them available on the University of Nebraska Digital Commons and the TSA website to those members who cannot travel to the Symposium. Any remaining funds will go to support scholarships. The couple for which the foundation is named launched the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, NE in 1997 with their gift of nearly 1,000 quilts.
We would like to thank Lloyd and Margit Cotsen for their generous donation of $5,000 in support of the 2018 TSA symposium publications including the program. This gift along with the past support of the Cotsen Family Foundation ($10,000 in 2016 to support Symposium related publications) continues to support the dissemination of knowledge about textiles worldwide.
We are also thankful to all the sponsors and individual members who have contributed—services in kind or monetary donations from $10 to $10,000—towards our programs, as all of these donations make a difference. And, of course, your membership—whether General, Supporting, Sustaining, or Patron levels of membership—all are important as we carry out our mission.
Special thanks as well to our Canadian partners at British Columbia Society of Textile Arts.
Major Supporters
$55,000 Endowment from the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation to support Symposia keynote speakers
$15,000 from the Robert & Ardis James Foundation to support our 2016 plenary speakers
$5,000 from Lloyd and Margit Cotsen to support 2018 Symposium Publications
Individual Donors (2017/2018)
Textiles Patron ($1,000 – $2,499)
Robert C. Hillestad, in honor of Eulanda Sanders and Wendy Weiss
Jordana Martin
Sandra Peinado
Elena Phipps
Lynn Pollard
Matt Reitsma
Research Champion ($500 – $999)
Warren Liebesman
Sylvia Lu
Thomas Murray
Michael F. Rohde
Scholarship Sustainer ($250 – $499)
Leslie H. Atik
Bill Brandt
Catharine Ellis
Ruth Katzenstein Souza
Amy Gould
Robin Mueller
Vita Plume
Anne Wilson
William Siegal
Lee Talbot
Burkhard von Rabenau
Dorothy Waxman
Textile Arts Advocate ($100 – $249)
Anonymous
Ruth Barnes
Susan S. Bean
Jean Cacicedo
Catherine Cerny
Emily Eto
Daryl M. Hafter
Barbara Heller
Ann Hudson
Teena Jennings
Jean Kares
Lisa L. Kriner
Jack Lenor Larsen
Louise W. Mackie
Christine Martens
Marcia Morse
Nina Olson
Margaret T. Ordoñez
Peggy Osterkamp
Zoe A. Perkins
Roxane Shaughnessy
Barbara Shapiro
Sherri Smith
Elisha P. Renne
Newbold Richardson
Kathi Rotella
Erica J. Tiedemann
Kim Marie Wall
Lauren D. Whitley
Mary Zicafoose
Friend of Fiber ($50 – $99 )
Anonymous
Laura Camerlengo
Patricia Cox Crews
Jill D’Alessandro
Maggie D’Aversa
Jacqueline Davidson
Dragonfly Press
Candace Edgerley
Ruth Geneslaw
Francoise Grossen
Sharla Jean Hoskin
Glen Kaufman, in honor of Pat Hickman
Nancy Koenigsberg
Bibiana Beatriz Ramonda
Bea Roberts
Sandra Sardjono
Cathy Stevulak
Jan Zeitlin
$10-$49
Sarell W. Beal
Christine Guitini
Astrid Hilger Bennett
Mung Lar Lam
Anne Marie Toccket
Additional Sponsors
British Columbia Society of Textile Artists (BC Stars)
AVL Looms
Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild
Indiana University School of Art, Architecture and Design
Arrowmont School of Craft
Kent State University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Peters Valley School of Craft
Cloth Roads
Marilyn Murphy
Italian Cultural Center
Warren Wilson College
Western Washington University
University of Lincoln, Nebraska