Presented by SAQA: "In 2021, Greg Climer completed an animation project using quilts for each frame of a short video. We'll delve into the creative process and learn what led to this artwork. Climer will focus on the technical aspects of creating the piece and the impact that a single idea can have on an artist's trajectory." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, July 24, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by the Quilt Alliance: "Ashley Jane Lewis, Carey Flack, and Stephanie Dyke will present educational and creative projects that use the Quilters’ Save Our Stories archive of more than 1,200 recorded oral histories with quiltmakers." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, July 17, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by the International Quilt Museum: "Join us for a special Textile Talk with Tulsa-based textile artist Rachel Hayes! Hayes will give a behind-the-scenes tour of her studio and discuss her career and latest installation — a colorful, aerial textile sculpture at the International Quilt Museum." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by SAQA: "Join us for a discussion with three artists from SAQA Global Exhibition StitchPunk! From hoverboard cozies to steampunk goddesses, the artists in this exhibition bring us into their imagined futures. Our presenting artists are Shannon Conley, Kate Crossley, and Lauryl Rose." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, July 3, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by SAQA: "Natalya Khorover is motivated by plastic pollution and overconsumption. She strives to use materials that would be condemned to the landfill and uses stitching and sewing to bring her artwork to life. Let’s talk about how to start creating a brand new artwork and exploring working in a series. There are so many approaches to this for traditional artists, but what if you are a repurposed media artist like us? What can help you start off on the right foot?" Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, June 26, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by the Quilt Alliance: "Join us on Wednesday, June 19 (Juneteenth) at 2pm EDT for a panel discussion led by Dr. Carolyn L. Mazloomi, artist and founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network. Artists L'Merchie Frazier, Ed Johnetta Miller and Lauren Alisa Austin will show samples of their work and talk about their experience as featured artists in the exhibition Mazloomi curated "And Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations.”" Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by the International Quilt Museum: "Join the International Quilt Museum for a special Textile Talk on June 12 with Teri Walker! An author and professor of political science at Elmhurst University, Walker will be sharing research on the unique political power of quilted messages. Learn what motivates quilt activists and the impact of their work." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by the Surface Design Association: "Join us as we explore the cross-disciplinary possibilities of acoustics and textiles with Judit Eszter Kárpáti, PhD, Esteban de la Torre of EJTECH, and Lindsay Olson. EJTECH is an artist duo working with sound, space, light, and time as material building blocks to draw connections between technology and the human body. Lindsay Olson creates artwork inspired by science and technology and was the resident artist aboard the marine Research Vessel Endeavor. All three artists create innovative work that push the boundaries of textiles and offer new ways of understanding the connections between art and science." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, June 5, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by SAQA: "Join us for an engaging discussion with three artists creating with fiber in 3D! Salley Mavor will discuss her journey as an artist who tells stories with sculptural needlework. The presentation will cover various creative endeavors, including picture book illustration, doll-making, and stop-motion animation. She will touch on her search for more meaning in her work." This, plus Barbara Schneider's "Leaves and Forest Floor" series, and Jean Sredl on using upcycled materials. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, May 29, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by the Quilt Alliance: "Join the Quilt Alliance for Textile Talks on Wed, May 22 at 2pm ET when we host Phyllis Michael Wong, author of We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Her 2023 award-winning book tells this seminal history through the voices of 100 women, assembly line workers who made bras, corsets and girdles." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, May 22, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by the International Quilt Museum: "Join IQM Curator of International Collections Marin Hanson and Saitama University professor Nao Nomura as they present “Japanese Quiltmakers: An Oral History Project” on Textile Talks on May 15." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by the Surface Design Association: "Join us in celebrating the Spring 2024 Surface Design Journal, Hunter / Gatherer and explore the intersections of performance and natural dyes with artists Pachia Lucy Vang and Dina Nazmi Khorchid along with moderator, Merill Comeau." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by SAQA: "This talk presents the evolution of MAD's fiber collection alongside the history of the museum's exhibitions about textiles and fiber art. It will be presented by Elissa Auther, MAD's Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by the Quilt Alliance: "The first QuiltCon was presented by the Modern Quilt Guild in 2013 and the Quilt Alliance was there documenting quilts and makers with a brand new video documentation project called Go Tell It at the Quilt Show! The annual show has provided a great opportunity to document the changes in both modern quilting and the show itself. Join QA Project Manager Emma Parker for a guided tour of the QuiltCon Go Tell It! collection including brand new videos from the 2024 show in Raleigh. Modern Quilt Guild Executive Director Karen Cooper will join Emma for a Q&A after the screening." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by the International Quilt Museum: "The International Quilt Museum returns for a second conversation with Basil Kincaid, an American artist who honors and evolves traditional practices through quilting, collaging, photography, installation, and performance. The conversation will be led by Dr. Sharbreon Plummer. Dr. Plummer is a strategist, educator, and independent researcher whose work focuses on Southern folkways and Black textile traditions. She is the curator of Of Salt and Spirit (November 2024) and author of Black Quilts: Memory, Methods and Medicine (Chronicle Books, 2026)." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by Surface Design Association: "Join us for Identity Is… Expansive with artist Michael Sylvan Robinson and Elissa Auther, MAD’s Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and William and Milford Lasdon Chief Curator. For his appearance at the MET Museum’s Gala in 2021, award-winning theater producer and fashion icon Jordan Roth commissioned the textile artist and queer activist Michael Sylvan Robinson to design a garment that represented Roth’s embrace of identity as an expansive concept." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by SAQA: "Travel to Yoko Sekita's rich interior world. Interviewed by Naomi Ichikawa, Sekita showcases complex imagined and autobiographical scenes. Images from Japanese culture, Sekita's travels, and children's literature are hidden in the details of her work. The interview is a treasure hunt through these stories, told from the perspective of a former manga artist." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, April 3, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by the Quilt Alliance: "The interview will feature highlights from Brian’s new exhibit at the Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum and a short dive into his thought process behind this very successful show." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, March 27, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by the International Quilt Museum, "Join the International Quilt Museum for a panel discussion featuring Sarah Walcott, IQM Collections Manager, and Jamie Swartz, IQM Collections Assistant, in conversation with Addison Henshaw, Tucker Smith, and Milo Hintz, students at the Arts and Humanities Focus Program in Lincoln, Nebraska. Walcott and Swartz co-curated the exhibition “Feed Sacks: An American Fairy Tale.” Henshaw, Smith, and Hintz are featured artists in the companion exhibition “Past Manifest.” Both exhibitions are on display at the International Quilt Museum through July 27." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at 2 PM EDT.
Presented by the Surface Design Association, "What do fiber art and Artificial Intelligence have in common? More than many people—including most computer scientists—realize. String, the earliest fiber technology, is 50,000 years old, and fiber has informed myriad technologies since, especially digital computing. Looking toward our digital future, we will use case studies of our own experiences, primarily in quilting and crochet, to address the potentials and limitations of the impact of Generative AI with large language models (LLMs) on fiber arts design and production." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, March 13, 2024, at 2 PM EDT. (Note the time change for Daylight Saving)