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The Textile Society of America, Inc. provides an international forum for the exchange and dissemination of information about textiles worldwide from artistic, cultural, economic, historic, political, social and technical perspectives.

National Office

Textile Society of America (TSA)

Kim Righi, Executive Director

P.O. Box 70

Earleville, MD 21919-0070

Phone (410) 275-2329

Fax (410) 275-8936

E-mail [email protected]

http://www.textilesociety.org

TSA Board of Directors 2006-2007

Officers

President

Carol Bier, Berkeley, CA Research Associate, The , Washington, DC

Vice President

Patricia Hickman, Haverstraw, NY

Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii/Artist

Treasurer

Patricia Cox Crews

Director, International Quilt Study Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Lincoln, NE

Recording Secretary

Roxane Shaughnessy

Collections Manager/Curator, Textile Museum of Canada

Toronto, , Canada

Past President

Pamela Parmal

David and Roberta Logie Curator of Textile and Fashion Arts

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Director of Internal Relations

Lisa L. Kriner

Associate Professor, Art Department, Berea College

Berea, KY

Director of External Relations

Janice Lessman-Moss

Professor, Kent State University Kent, OH

Directors at Large

Frances Dorsey

Associate Professor, NSCAD University

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Joanne Dolan Ingersoll

Curator of Costume and Textiles, The RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design

Providence, RI

Mary Ann Fitzgerald

Exhibitions Coordinator, Chazen Museum of Art

Madison, WI

Sumru Belger Krody

Associate Curator, The Textile Museum

Washington, DC

Matilda McQuaid

Deputy Curatorial Director, Cooper-Hewitt, National

New York, NY

Vita Plume

Assistant Professor, Art and Design, North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC

Task Representatives Co-Chairs, TSA 10th Biennial Symposium - 2006

Frances Dorsey

Associate Professor, NSCAD University

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Nataley Nagy

Executive Director, Textile Museum of Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Co-Chairs, TSA 11th Biennial Symposium - Honolulu 2008

Reiko Brandon

Curator of Textiles, Retired, Honolulu Academy of Arts

Honolulu, HI

Tom Klobe

Director Emeritus, University of Hawaii Art Gallery

Honolulu, HI

2006 Proceedings Editors

Carol Bier, Berkeley, CA

Research Associate, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC

Ann Svenson Perlman

Textile Conservator

Paia, HI

Newsletter Editor

Karen L. Searle

Artist and Writer St. Paul, MN

Bibliography Editor

Mary Mallia

Librarian, The Textile Museum

Washington, DC

Listserv Manager

Laura Strand

Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

Edwardsville, IL

Website Coordinator

Ashley Callahan

Curator of Decorative Arts, Georgia Museum of Art

Athens, GA

R. L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award, Chair

Margot Schevill

Textile and Folk Art Consultant

Berkeley, CA TSA Past Presidents

Pamela Parmal, David and Roberta Logie Curator of Textile and Fashion Arts Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Mary M. Dusenbury, Adjunct Research Associate, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas; Lisa Aronson, Associate Professor of Art History, Skidmore College; Beverly Gordon, Professor, University of Wisconsin; Louise W. Mackie, Curator of Textiles and Islamic Art, Cleveland Museum of Art; Mattiebelle Gittinger, Research Associate, The Textile Museum; Lotus Stack, Curator of Textiles, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Milton Sonday, Senior Researcher, Textiles, Cooper-Hewitt Museum; Peggy S. Gilfoy (deceased), Curator of Textiles, Indianapolis Museum of Art.

TSA Publications

TSA Newsletter

TSA publishes a newsletter for members in January, May, and September. In addition to organizational news, the Newsletter includes feature articles, reviews of books, conferences, and exhibitions, plus listings of textile-related events.

TSA Website

The TSA website at http://www.textilesociety.org provides an overview of the organization, a list of current board members with contact information, organizational news, a listing of current and upcoming TSA events including study tours, workshops, and the biennial symposium, and listings of other textile-related events and resources.

TSA Symposium Proceedings

Proceedings are published the year following each biennial TSA Symposium. To order Proceedings from past TSA Symposia, please contact the TSA office or visit

http://www.textilesociety.org.

Annual Textiles Bibliography

Published jointly by TSA and The Textile Museum, the Bibliography lists textile-related

books and articles published during the preceding year. Please send citations for publication by 31 December to Mary Mallia, Bibliography Editor, Arthur Jenkins Library, The Textile Museum, 2320 S St. NW, Washington, DC 20008-4088, [email protected]. TSA Listserv

TSA operates an e-mail listserv for textile-related discussions. Listserv members receive announcements of current textile-related events and research and can engage in discussions. The listserv is managed by Laura Strand. To subscribe: send an e-mail to [email protected]. Leave the subject blank. For the message, write: subscribe

tsalist, and add your e-mail address. On sending this message, you will be automatically

enrolled in the listserv.