“Fabric Three” with Silk for Valhalla by Åse Erikson from the Members
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VOLUME 30. NUMBER 2. FALL 2018 “Fabric Three” With Silk for Valhalla by Åse Erikson from the Members’ Exhibition at the 2018 TSA Sympo- sium, “The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global.” Newsletter Team OARD OF IRECTORS Senior Editor: Wendy Weiss (Director of Communications) B D Editor: Natasha Thoreson Lisa L. Kriner Designer: Meredith Affleck President Member News Editors: Caroline Hayes Charuk (TSA General Manager), Lila Stone [email protected] Editorial Assistance: Susan Moss and Sarah Molina Melinda Watt Vice President/President Elect Our Mission [email protected] Vita Plume The Textile Society of America is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides an international forum for Past President the exchange and dissemination of textile knowledge from artistic, cultural, economic, historic, [email protected] political, social, and technical perspectives. Established in 1987, TSA is governed by a Board of Directors from museums and universities in North America. Our members worldwide include Owyn Ruck curators and conservators, scholars and educators, artists, designers, makers, collectors, and Treasurer others interested in textiles. TSA organizes biennial symposia. The juried papers presented [email protected] at each symposium are published in the Proceedings available at http://digitalcommons.unl. edu/textilesoc. It also organizes day- and week-long programs in locations throughout North Lesli Robertson America and around the world that provide unique opportunities to learn about textiles in Recording Secretary various contexts, to examine them up-close, and to meet colleagues with shared interests. TSA [email protected] distributes a Newsletter and compiles a membership directory. These publications are included in TSA membership, and available on our website. Wendy Roberts Director of Communications [email protected] About the Newsletter Directors at Large: The Textile Society of America Newsletter is published two times a year as a member benefit and Maggie D’Aversa serves to announce and report on the Biennial Symposia. In addition, the newsletter reports on [email protected] TSA programs, international textile news, and lists conferences, courses, exhibitions, grants, job postings, and tours. Advertising space is available. Details are at: https://bit.ly/2RTuK58 Katherine Diuguid [email protected] Submissions are welcome. Linda Eaton Recent newsletters can be downloaded from the TSA website as PDFs: [email protected] http://textilesocietyofamerica.org/news/newsletters/ Isaac Facio Newsletters dating from 1989 through 2004 are available on Digital Commons: [email protected] http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsanews/ Karen Hampton Newsletter Submission Guidelines: [email protected] Robin Muller To submit content to the Editor please e-mail [email protected] with the subject [email protected] line, “submission.” Text should be sent as Microsoft Word files and images should be sent as individual JPEG files. Please include image captions and a one to three sentence author bio for Ann Peters reviews and articles. Please keep articles and reviews to 600 words. [email protected] Lee Talbot [email protected] Stay in Touch Janis Jefferies eNews: In addition to the PDF newsletter, TSA distributes regular e-mails with up-to-date news TSA International Representative of programs and opportunities. Subscribe at http://textilesocietyofamerica.org/news/subscribe/ [email protected] to keep up with program registration dates, scholarship and award opportunities, and news from the field. STAFF Caroline Hayes Charuk General Manager [email protected] Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/textilesocietyofamerica Follow us on Twitter: @TextileSoc or on Instagram: @textilesociety Find colleagues on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/textile-society-of-america Fall 2018 Newsletter of the Textile Society of America Page 2 FALL 2018 Letter from the Editor NEWSLETTER CONTENTS IN THIS ISSUE OF THE TSA NEWSLETTER, IDEAS CONVERGE. THE 3 Letter from the Editor Newsletter acts as an intersection where multiple voices—celebratory and critical alike—meet, coincide, cross, and hopefully, help us to connect. 4 Letter from the President Like an internet connection, the Newsletter serves as an access point, a link to information. Like a bus connection, it serves as a transfer point, helping to 5 TSA News move ideas from one place to another. But the Newsletter can also facilitate • Welcome New TSA Board Members a more intangible type of connection: an affinity for each other’s work, an • Our Focus on Diversity: Vision Statement identification with each other’s stories, and a relationship to each other as a • R. L. Shep Ethnic Textile Book Award true, collaborative, interconnected Society. • Diedrick Brackens Honored with 2018 This last type of connection seems daunting. After all, writing is active. Writers Brandford/Elliott Award put something of themselves into their words and submit them here for us to read. Reading can be passive. Sometimes we see the words in front of us, but 8 International Report we don’t absorb them. It’s easy to take these words—and the people behind them—for granted. • Featured Exhibitions • Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT) To build connections, we, as readers, can try to think of ourselves as sponges. • Opportunity We let those words roll around in our heads, our hearts, our guts. And by thinking about and feeling and chewing on those words as they harmonize • The University of North Texas to close or clash with our own experiences and worldviews, we’ve responded to the Fibers Program by Spring 2019 writer. We’ve accepted a gift and we’ve reciprocated. These are not my ideas. They are in response to Student & New Professional 14 TSA Symposium Awardee Jennifer Chen-su Huang’s thoughtful review of her experience • The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global at the 2018 Symposium (page 19). In it, Jennifer encourages us to take in pictures “response-ability/responsibility” for respectfully sharing and co-contribut- • TSA Members’ Exhibition ing to our field. This was Jennifer’s response to Sonja Dahl, a panelist at the • Reports from Student & New Professional Symposium, who herself was responding to Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992). Here, Morrison writes: Awardees Writing and reading mean being aware of the writer’s notions of risk and safety, 22 A Long-Delayed Professional Conversation the serene achievement of, or sweaty fight for, meaning and response-abil- ity.... The imagination that produces work which bears and invites rereadings, which motions to future readings as well as contemporary ones, implies a 23 Book Reviews shareable world. • Art, Honor, and Ridicule: Fante Asafo Flags from Southern Ghana This is how ideas converge. • Polychromatic Screen Printing Your response to this Newsletter is not required in writing, but we welcome • Rug Money and encourage your research, essays, opinions, critiques, reviews, letters, • Spider Woman’s Children: Navajo Weavers leads, and, especially, your news. You may notice that this issue does not include one of our most beloved features: Member News. We welcome you to Today submit news of your exhibition, book, article, lecture, award, or project using our online submission form (https://textilesocietyofamerica.org/news/ news- 28 Film Reviews letters). If you’re not a forms person, send it by email. Or snail mail. We want to hear from you. 30 In Memoriam: Surayia Rahman 31 Featured Exhibitions • Contemporary Muslim Fashions • Helena Hernmarck: Weaving in Progress Natasha Thoreson • Lia Cook: Inner Traces Fall 2018 Newsletter of the Textile Society of America Page 3 Letter from the President to you to help us better understand what programs, TSA provides one full scholar- AS I WRITE, WE ARE JUST A FEW we are excelling at and what we need to ship. So please, think about attending a th weeks out from the wonderful 16 Bien- improve. TCU near you and applying for a schol- nial Symposium in Vancouver, Canada, arship. For more information about past and I am just beginning to absorb my TCUs and announcements about future experience. Looking back, I’m amazed Fall Fundraising ones, please watch your email and see at all the research and experiences our website: https://bit.ly/2DqyTuk presented and the questions and intense As always, access to symposia is a discussions that have arisen from the continuing focus for the organization. As one symposium comes to a close, presentations and conversations. For For this symposium, we were able to another is already being planned. We me there were so many opportunities to give fee waivers, scholarships, and are very excited to announce that the 2020 TSA Symposium, Women’s Stories, learn, so many things to see and experi- merit awards to over 50 presenters and Human Lives, will be in Boston from ence, and so many people I was thrilled attendees. This number is an impressive October 14-18, 2020. We hope you will to see again and meet for the first time. increase compared to the support we begin to make plans to attend. We can’t Thank you all—participants, attendees, have been able to give in the past. But wait to see you and hear your stories. and volunteers—for making this experi- we always wish we could offer more ence possible. support. Scholarships are possible Symposia don’t happen without a huge because of you, as well as our generous Final Thoughts amount of work from volunteers. I want members and sponsors. Thank you all to especially thank the Symposium who donated to help make the sympo- As I start my journey as your TSA Presi- Organizing Committee—Jean Kares, sium accessible for others. dent, I want to say how grateful I am Bettina Matzkuhn, Michele Hardy, and With this in mind, please consider our to all those TSA members from whom Ruth Scheuing—for their incredible Fall Fundraiser as you prepare for your I have learned so much. I am especially vision and thousands of hours of work to year-end donations.