Textile Society of America Newsletter 18:3 •Fl Fall 2006
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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Textile Society of America Newsletters Textile Society of America Fall 2006 Textile Society of America Newsletter 18:3 — Fall 2006 Textile Society of America Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsanews Part of the Art and Design Commons Textile Society of America, "Textile Society of America Newsletter 18:3 — Fall 2006" (2006). Textile Society of America Newsletters. 54. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsanews/54 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Textile Society of America at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Textile Society of America Newsletters by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. VOLUME 18 . NUMBER 3 • FALL, 2006 Textile L\t int(']'];)( l' CONTENTS Last-Minute showcases a range of contem The response was enthusiastic porary Canadian art addressing and it is hoped that the number TSA Symposium 2006 Symposium Preview textiles. and value of awards can increase 2 President's Letter y THE TIME YOU READ THIS The Distillery District, located in the future. 4 TSA News, TSA Symposium, B newsletter the 10th Biennial in the old industrial distillery Several exhibition venues TSA Member News Symposium at Harbourfront in area of the city, is architectur will feature textile-based work by current students and recent 6 Education News Toronto will be nearly upon us. ally interesting and also home to This marks the culmination of many galleries, shops and cafes. graduates of Canadian schools. 7 Collections News, Open only to pedestrian traffic, Harbourfront Centre, site of the In Memoriam several years of planning and a Symposium sessions, presents a very steep learning curve. We the area promotes culture, the 8 Featured Collection series of vitrines which will be are very excited to welcome you arts and entertainment in a lively filled with 20 and 3D work by 9 Exhibition Reviews all to the Symposium, and to and appealing area of the city. An afternoon might only scratch graduates from Alberta College 10 Book Reviews Toronto, this October. Here is a of Art, Concordia University, little more information to whet the surface here. Plan to add an I I Conference Reviews Nova Scotia College of Art and appetites. extra day or so to your visit, if 12 Calendar-Exhibitions you can, to partake in all of this. Design, and Ontario College of Related Exhibitions Art and Design. 14 Calendar-Lectures, Organizations serve constitu Workshops A number of local galleries and encies, and emerging scholars, The student gallery of the artists, and practitioners of dis Ontario College of Art and 15 Calls for Papers, museums will be presenting exhi Conferences & Symposia, bitions which engage in some parate textile disciplines are an Design, just a stone's throw from Grants way with textiles. Attendees important component of the the Textile Museum, will be host will find a useful listing in the TSA community. We have tried ing the opening of an exhibition conference package, along with to include students at all levels of miniatures by students across advice on where to eat, self in this Symposium. Some will be Canada on Thursday evening, guided tours, night life, and so presenting research and scholar 5 :00-7 :OOpm, planned to coin on. Near-by areas worth visiting ship, some will be participating cide with the 6:30 reception at in exhibitions planned around the Textile Museum of Canada. THE TEXTILE SOCIETY OF include the Parkdale area, where the Symposium venue, and oth In addition to the schools noted AMERICA, INC. PROVIDES AN many artist and designer studios ers will be attending for the first above, work will be presented INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR as well as the Gladstone Hotel from Capilano College and THE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINA are located. The Gladstone, site time, trying to decide where to Kootenay School of the Arts in TION OF INFORMATION ABOUT of studios and artist-designed direct future studies or research. BC; Sheridan College in Toronto; TEXTILES WORLDWIDE, hotel rooms, represents some of For the first time the orga the Centre de Recherche FROM ARTISTIC, CULTURAL, the best hip urban thinking in nization awarded five student et de Design en Impression ECONOMIC, HISTORIC, the city. The exhibition "HAND scholarships to those currently Textile, and Centre des Textiles POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND FACE-BODY" at the Gladstone enrolled in, or recently complet TECHNICAL PERSPECTIVES. ing, education in the textile field. Contemporains de Montreal; the to p.4 completes her Board term as will strengthen TSA even more TSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Past President, and I can't thank with her organizational skills and OFFICERS her enough for her leadership commitment to giving her all to PRESIDENT and all of the important work any task she takes on. I know I Pamela Parmal she has done for TSA. She has am leaving TSA in very capable TEL 617/369-3707 FAX 617/262-6549 been an extraordinary mentor, hands. [email protected] and I am deeply grateful that During the past two years VICE PRESIDENT she had enough faith in my Carol served as Chair of the Carol Bier abilities to ask me to serve as TEL 202/667-0441 ext. 19 Publications Committee. This [email protected] Vice President during her term. AS I WRITE THIS, I ANTICIPATE committee included Ashley These past two years, while she Brown Callahan, Laura Strand, TREASURER with pleasure the TSA Patricia Cox Crews Symposium in Toronto, and with should have been allowed to Karen Searle, lisa Kriner and TEL 402/472-6342 some sadness the last Board gracefully and quietly complete Mary Mallia. Each member of [email protected] her term, she agreed to serve the committee takes responsibil meeting over which I will pre RECORDING SECRETARY side. Serving as the President of as chair of the new Awards ity for one of TSA's public out Madelyn Shaw TSA for the past two years has Committee. This committee also reach vehicles. Ashley ably and TEL 401/454-6515 [email protected] been a privilege and a rewarding included Vita Plume, Madelyn conscientiously updates the TSA experience. Since I joined the Shaw, Mary Ann Fitzgerald, website weekly with the help of DIRECTOR OF INTERNAL RELATIONS and Patricia Cox Crews, who Dorie Clay of Marinpro, web Lisa Kriner Board in 2000 as co-Chair for TEL 859/985-3547 FAX 859/985-3541 the Northampton Symposium, I worked hard to develop a master. We have been extremely [email protected] new award/financial aid pro fortunate in having Ashley to have watched the organization DIRECTOR OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS grow, stabilize, and expand its gram. The establishment of manage this important aspect of Laura Strand programs. TSA is now in a place Symposium scholarships through TSA's public face. TEL 618/692-4170 FAX 618/650-3096 [email protected] where it can begin to return the the Student/New Professionals Laura Strand has served as support that its membership has Awards and the Founding manager of the TSA listserve and PAST PRESIDENT Mary M. Dusenbury given it over the years. We have Presidents' Awards are just the we owe her a debt of gratitude first in a series of programs that TEUFAX 620/254-7656 begun initiatives that will allow for maintaining the listserv and [email protected] us to: acknowledge outstanding will support the work and the developing it into a useful infor DIRECTORS AT-LARGE scholarship; offer financial aid to professional development of the mation source for its members. Ashley Callahan attend our Symposia, study tours organization's members. We also need to acknowl The Awards Committee TEL 706/542-0463 FAX 706/542-0440 and workshops; and provide edge and thank Karen Searle, [email protected] also oversees the RL Shep Book who for seven years has pro more professional development Mary Ann Fitzgerald opportunities. This is an exciting Award for outstanding publica duced the TSA Newsletter three TEL 608/262-1 162 time for TSA, and I am proud to tion of the year in the field of times a year, and has gone out of mafitzg [email protected] have been a part of it. ethnic textile studies. The 2005 her way to solicit articles. Karen Joanne Dolan Ingersoll While developing and Shep Award Committee was has also designed and produced TEL 212/217-5774 FAX 212/217-5978 [email protected] implementing TSA's long-range chaired by Beverly Gordon a number of mailings for us, and Margo MenSing goals has been rewarding, one and composed of Margot designs and produces the annual Schevill and Desi Koslin. They TEL 518/580-5063 FAX 518/587-8896 of the most gratifying aspects of Membership Directory, as well [email protected] reviewed all nominated books as soliciting its advertisements. serving on the Board has been Vita Plume the chance to become better and made the final selection We are deeply grateful for her TEL 919/513-4466 FAX 919/515-7330 acquainted with the other Board for the award to be presented talent, her generosity and the [email protected] members and the TSA member this year. The 2006 Award time she gives to the organiza Bobbie Sumberg ship at large. Without everyone's Committee is chaired by Desi tion. I would also like to thank TEL 5051476- 1223 FAX 5051476-1300 [email protected] help and support, the organiza Koslin, with Margot Schevill Rebecca Klassen for compiling tion would not be doing as well and Victoria Rivers. I wish to the Newsletter's Calendar, and TASK REPRESENTATIVES thank both committees for their Susan Ward for the extraor as it is.