Presented by the Surface Design Association (SDA): "Francelise Dawkins is a featured artist in the exhibition "Up to Us: Black Dimensions in Art, 1975–Tomorrow," at the Tang Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. The exhibition celebrates the 50th-anniversary of the New York Capital Region’s longest-running Black arts collective, of which Dawkins has been an active member for two decades. Dawkins will be in conversation with the exhibition’s curator, Rebecca McNamara.​" Register today and watch when this episode airs this Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at 2 PM EDT.

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"Born in Paris, Francelise Dawkins has been living in the United States for four decades. She studied fiber arts at the Indianapolis Art League before moving to upstate New York, where she began developing the textile collages she would coin “silkollages.” Dawkins works across abstraction and figuration and 2-dimensional works and sculptures using colorful, patterned silks and cotton fabrics from Asia, Africa, and Europe, embracing multiplicity and expansion."

This Textile Talk takes place, Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at 2:00 PM Eastern Time. Future installments are held online at 2 p.m. Eastern (11 a.m. Pacific) each Wednesday.

The video will be recorded and will be able to view later.

Click here, or the image below, to register for the Textile Talk.

(Below Photo: Francelise Dawkins, Exposed Belonging, 2025, textile collage, image courtesy Tang Museum, Skidmore College)