Join the Surface Design Association in conversation with artist and designer Kaffe Fassett during The Power of Pattern Textile Talk. The talk will include a discussion about his latest exhibit Kaffe Fassett: The Power of Pattern, draws on original artworks from Kaffe and Brandon Mably as well as invited makers, exploring Fassett’s world, with textile works, photographs and archival material to illuminate the work of this distinctive, influential artist and designer. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, May 10, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
Join Nancy Crow and Schweinfurth Program Director Davana Robedee as they discuss Nancy's upcoming exhibition SEQUENCES, RIFFS AND DRAWINGS at the Schweinfurth Art Center for this Wednesday's Textile Talk. During the interview, they will explore the topics that inspired Nancy's most recent quilts, including the language of geometric elements, beauty, and anxiety. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, May 3, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
In this week's Textile Talk, join your host (and BOM leader) Quilt Alliance co-president Laura Hopper and project manager Emma Parker in meeting some of the talented creatives participating in their 30th Anniversary Block of the Month project, featuring unique blocks designed by nine incredible partners, including past guests of The Quilt Show and our very own Ricky Tims. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
Join Sharon Peoples on her path from wall-hung fiber art to sculptural work shown on a plinth in a riveting new Textile Talk. In this week's talk, Sharon shows how she works to create small, stitched individual fragments that build up into larger three-dimensional pieces. If you’re interested in machine stitching, using soluble fabrics, bonded fabrics, and thinking “outside the square,” this Textile Talk is for you! Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, April 19, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
Join International Quilt Museum Curator of International Collections Marin Hanson for this week's Textile Talk as she talks with Geeta Khandelwal about her ambitious garment project, to make miniature versions (approximately one-eighth of their original size) of the lavish robes of the 16th to 19th-century Mughal rulers of northern India in various styles, and her experiences as a quilt maker, researcher, and documenter of quilts from her home state of Maharashtra. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, April 12, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
This week's Textile Talk brings us Tracey Lawko, who will discuss creating “Reflections of Ourselves” and the new-to-her task of producing a documentary. The documentary showcases her collaborative work, a large textile artwork celebrating Canada’s rich cultural heritage that 100 Indigenous, settler, and immigrant Canadians created a textile leaf for to honor their cultural heritage, its exhibition, and interviews with the artists. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, April 5, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
Celebrating the creative work of student artists, designers, and makers, this week's Textile Talk features the Surface Design Association’s (SDA) Future Tense 2023, which offers a glimpse into the future of contemporary fibers by presenting the best work made by students in the field today. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
In this week's Textile Talk from the Quilt Alliance, Barbara Brackman and Merikay Waldvogel reminisce about their early sleuthing adventures in the 1980s, culminating in the 1993 book and exhibit Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. At the time of its publication, they had located 100 Sears Contest quilts, but not the grand-prize quilt entered by Margaret Caden of Lexington, KY. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
Join the Quilt Alliance for this week's Textile Talk, a Quilters’ Save Our Stories (QSOS) interview with printmaker, surface designer, textile artist, and author Jen Hewett. Lisa Woolfork, founder of Black Women Stitch and the Stitch Please podcast, will serve as the QSOS interviewer. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, March 15, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
What artists are doing with textiles these days couldn't even be perceived 100 years ago, maybe even 20 years ago. In this week's Textile Talk from the Quilt Alliance, scholar and curator Keidra Daniels Navaroli brings together a group of artists who "are pushing the perceived boundaries of textile practice" and "whose work provides opportunities for public engagement." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
The Quilt Alliance's Textile Talk this week is presented by the International Quilt Museum, and it is a reflection on a wonderful community quilt project that recently took place in Tokyo, Japan. "Join the International Quilt Museum's Marin Hanson as she talks with artist Ai Kijima and Saitama University professor Nao Nomura about the recently concluded project, its planning and implementation, and the potential for future collaborative projects of its kind." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, March 1, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
This week's Textile Talk features a quilter you're probably familiar with. That's right, Carole Lyles Shaw, who was just our guest on The Quilt Show, is now the guest of the Quilt Alliance and participating in Quilters' Save Our Stories (which we also feature in our Sunday Newsletters). Join them and learn "why every community should use this grassroots documentary project to save the stories of quilters." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, February 22, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
This week's Textile Talk dives into Traditions + Techniques in Beading with Journal Editor Elizabeth Kozlowski, and Artists and contributors, Sébastien Carré and Anette Millington, who will "speak on their work and beading as a practice that has transcended time." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, February 15, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
For Wednesday's Textile Talk, join International Quilt Museum guest curators Sadé Ayorinde and Chadric Devin along with Carolyn Ducey, IQM Ardis B. James Curator of Collections, as they talk with "high school students in conversations about the color black and its function as a visual and conceptual element in art" using the museum's exhibit Black at Work: The Color Black in Quilts from the Collection as a jumping off point. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
Centuries from now, when our quilts still exist and we'll be gone, we want future generations to know who made these quilts and why they were important to us. In this week's Textile Talk, the Quilt Alliance shines a light on "the conundrum of how to label and document quilts with no name or known provenance" with the Know-It-Alls group of quilt historians, Alden O’Brien, Lynne Bassett, and Julie Silber, along with moderator Meg Cox. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, February 1, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
Join SAQA artists Linda Anderson, Charlotte Bird, and Marty-O for this week's Textile Talk all about the changes and shifts they have experienced within the last three years and the opportunities it has brought them "to test where they have been and where they want to go." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, January 25, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
Every time you decide to make a quilt you are taking a creative risk that you can execute the quilt the way you want to. All quilters face this issue, and in this week's Textile Talk QuiltFolk's Mike McCormick and Mary Fons (a past guest of the show) "discuss risk and intuition vis a vis the global quilt community" and share "their thoughts on the future of the industry". Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, January 18, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
The Textile Talk this week features a very special guest in addition to the special guest that they already have. That's right, The Quilt Show's own Lilo Bowman, a SAQA board member herself, speaks with quilt collector Frank Klein as they view his collection. Recorded live at Houston 2022, "They discuss several of the pieces in his collection, and what each piece means to him." Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, January 11, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
Textile Talks return for the new year and begin with a focus on another wonderful quilt exhibition. The exhibit, Forecast//Recast, "brings together artists and artworks that explore ideas of predicting, reshaping, and re-predicting". We are led through the exhibit by juror Tanya Aguiñiga, "as she walks us through the exhibition and provides insights to her own art practice." Register today and watch when this episode airs TODAY, Wednesday, January 4, 2023, at 2 PM EDT.
Go Tell It at Textile Talks is the last Textile Talks presentation of 2022. Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, December 14, 2022, at 2 PM EDT.