#TextileTalks

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2025-06-03

Next Textile Talks (free, over Zoom, Wednesday June 4, from 2:00 Eastern): Song Quilts with Eliza Hardy Jones
International Quilt Museum

"Featuring quiltmaker and musician Eliza Hardy Jones, who will talk about her methodology behind her Song Quilts project, her latest exhibition of those quilts at the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney, and new pieces she is working on."

Preregister at: internationalquiltmuseum.org/t

Promo slide. "Song Quilts with Eliza Hardy Jones, June 4, 2pm EST, Textile Talks". Image of yellow and orange geometric quilt, very bright, solid fabric, squares and triangles in rows and columns.
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2025-04-08

The next Textile Talk (free, Zoom, April 9, from 2:00-3:00 PM EDT (GMT/UTC -4): Redwork with Stefania Gomez
"Join the International Quilt Museum for a conversation with poet and IQM fellow Stefania Gomez for a discussion on her poetry and redwork quilts in the museum's collection."
Preregister at internationalquiltmuseum.org/t

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Promo slide for the lecture. Below: text Redwork with Stefania Gomez, April 9, 2pm, etc. Above: photo of full redwork quilt. White fabric with red embroidery. Images are individual and densely placed. Plants, birds, people, a chicken, owls, bearded portraits.
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2025-04-01

Tomorrow's TExtile Talks (free, over zoom, April 2, 2:00-3:00 PM EDT (GMT/UTC -4)) : Yvette Molina: Art, Community, and Care
Tang Museum in partnership with Surface Design Association
"Curator Rebecca McNamara presents on the work of Mexican-American artist Yvette Molina[...] Breaking rules of the traditional gallery, it is both an art installation and a community hangout space"

Preregister at: quiltalliance.org/events/texti

Photo of a white gallery room with people sitting on comfortable soft benches and talking to each other. One person is reading? sketching? On one wall is a symbolic tree with bright leaves. Another wall has several round pieces like desert sand dunes.
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2025-03-25

Next Textile Talk (free, over zoom, Wednesday March 26, 2:00-3:00 PM EDT GMT/UTC -4): We Gather at the Edge: Black Women and Contemporary Quilts, presented by SAQA
"[This] is an exhibition that celebrates Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi's collection acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2024. The exhibition is organized around themes that reveal why Black women gather."

Preregister at saqa.com/events/we-gather-edge

Promo slide for the lecture. Above, heavy black text: We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists. Below: quilt with colorful & black triangles (flying geese) with large golden panel with applique of a black human sculpture, artist Myrah Brown Green - In My Akwabaa Form
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2025-02-18

The next Textile talk (tomorrow February 19, 2:00 PM EST (GMT/UTC -5) Intertwining Identities:
SDA Symposium Keynote Speaker, Verónica A. Pèrez, community artist, on their personal artistic practices. Using [..] braiding, weaving, and crocheting, combined with sculptural techniques [...] Pèrez addresses themes of erasure, empathy, and ambiguity as a member of the Puerto Rican diaspora.

Preregister here:
surfacedesign.org/events-exhib

Promo slide for lecture. Left: honeycomb of photos, including woven/braided works in a gallery, black on a white wall; a workroom with a class, the artist with hair up in two buns. Right: text with title and artist, see post.
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2025-02-11

Next Textile Talks (Wed, 2:00 PM EST (GMT/UTC -5), free over Zoom):
QuiltCon for All: Karen Cooper on the Impact of QuiltCon (International Quilt Museum)
Director of the Modern Quilt Guild Karen Cooper will discuss the conference's history as well as what's next, and show some of the fabulous works that have been shown over the years.

Register here:
saqa.com/resources/textiletalks

Promo slide for the lecture, Quiltcon for All. Top: Black and white photo of the venue, a maze of abstract quilts hanging on display, two viewers walking through the aisle. Below: event title and time, in the post, plus "Textile Talks are brought to you by SDA, SAQA, International Quilt Museum, Quilt Alliance.
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2025-02-04

The next Textile Talks (free, over Zoom, February 5, 2:00 PM EST, GMT/UTC -5): African American Quilt Guilds: Uncovering Lost History with Quilt Documentation, presented by Quilt Alliance
"A’donna Richardson, founder of the African American Quilt Documentation Study Group, will present her research and recent fieldwork with African American quilt guilds."
Register at
quiltalliance.org/events/texti

Promo slide for the event, text is in post, photos of a Black woman, smiling (Richardson?); a star block with central black star and red, green, yellow rays; and the logo for the African American Quilt Documentation Study Group, stylized needles and cloth (maybe??) in white and deep red on black background
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2024-11-19

Next Textile Talk (free, over Zoom, Wed. Nov. 20, 2pm Eastern): Learn & Make with SDA! Part 2 (Surface Design Association). Highlighting upcoming workshops in a variety of techniques and media (felting, upcycling, lace, bojagi).

Preregister at surfacedesign.org/events-exhib

Promo slide for the lecture. Small photos of a variety of textile works including lace, felted sculpture, stained glass quilting (?). Text overlay (long, not all in post): Textile Talk, Wednesday November 20, 2024 at 2pm ET. Learn & Make with SDA Part 2. Lisa Klakulak, Theda Sandiford, Maggie Hensel-Brown, Youngmin Lee.
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2024-11-05

The next Textile Talks (free, over Zoom, 2pm eastern, Wed. Nov 6): Go Tell It: Quilt Stories from the Quilts of Valor Foundation, presented by Quilt Alliance. Documentary of 3 min interviews with quilters, with a follow-up discussion about why documentation is important to the QOVF.

Preregister here: quiltalliance.org/events/texti

Promo slide for the webinar. Images: five photos of quilters standing in front of quilts. The artists are white, mostly female, middle aged or older. The quilts are heavily read white and blue and traditional stars with some panel/focus fabric. One has multicolored koala quilt as well. One photo of an older guy wrapped in a quilt with two older women. Text is in post:
 "Go Tell It: Quilt Stories from the Quilts of Valor Foundation". "Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024 at 2pm EST." "Quilt Alliance; What's your quilt story; join us www.QuiltAlliance.org", "Textile Talks", "Quilts of Valor QOV"
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2024-10-08

The next Textile Talk (free, over zoom, 2pm Eastern October 9): Quilt Story Road Trip, by Quilt Alliance.

"... bite-size videos from the Quilt Alliance’s Go Tell It! project, featuring one person sharing one quilt for three minutes [...] learn about documenting and sharing your own quilt story in a Go Tell It! video."

Preregister at quiltalliance.org/events/texti

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2024-10-02

Today's Textile Talk (free, over Zoom, 2pm Eastern): Yorgan: The Art of the Turkish Quilt.

"A special gallery talk with artist and guest curator Christine Martens related to an exhibition showing at the International Quilt Museum through Feb. 15."

Registration link internationalquiltmuseum.org/t

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2024-09-04

Got to the lecture late, but the works are intensely gorgeous and very different, and the three artists are thoughtful about process and meaning. This is one of my recent favorite ones. I'll put in the link when it hits YouTube.

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2024-09-03

Tomorrow's Textile Talk (free, Zoom, Sept. 4, 2pm Eastern): Beyond the Surface: Contemporary Artists and Printed Textiles, presented Surface Design Association. (Artwork by Krystle Lemonias)

Preregister at (you may need to scroll)
saqa.com/resources/textiletalks

Honestly, not sure how long these will continue. I can't find better links from most groups presenting the lectures.

Photo of artwork by Krystle Lemonias. Pieced and printed fabric. A Black woman sitting on sofa holds a blond toddler.
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2024-08-28

Tomorrow's Textile Talk (Wed, Aug 28, 11 am Pacific, free, Zoom): Stitching Stories: A Global Craft Journey with Isabelle Fish of Rue Pigalle, presented by International Quilt Museum.

Preregister at saqa.com/events/stitching-stor

Promo slide for the lecture, with a photo of a smiling white woman wearing textile jewelry (not sure) in a barn. Slide text is in post.
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2024-07-31

Today's Textile Talk (free, Zoom, July 31, 2pm Eastern): Interplay: Limitless Connections with Rena Wood, Lyndsi Schuesler, Ji Young Kim, juror Annet Couwenberg, and moderator Nora McGinnis. Surface Design Association.

"Celebrate three exhibitions highlighting the very best contemporary fiber art. We’ll hear from Interplay award winners and juror." (It's a curated exhibit, I think?)

Registration at:
surfacedesign.org/events-exhib

Promo slide with text (lecture info, all in post) over background of artwork. Left, a pale image of two disks on a thick twisted loop. Center, a standing multi footed mushroom shape in bright colors. Right, close up of buttons in blacks and white. I could be wrong.
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2024-07-23

The next Textile Talk (free, Zoom, Wed. Jul 24, 2pm Eastern, GMT/UTC -4) is: Greg Climer - Quilted Animation and "Impossible" Projects, presented by SAQA

"In 2021, Greg Climer completed an animation project using quilts for each frame of a short video. We'll delve into the creative process and learn what led to this artwork."

Registration & info at saqa.com/events/greg-climer-qu

Promo slide. Background, a colorful quilt of small squares with a larger grud quilted at an angle to the pieces. The pattern is a pixilated image of two people walking side by side (I think). Text overlay is event information, already in post.
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2024-07-17

The next Textile Talk, free, over zoom, Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 2pm EDT: presentations by the 2024 Ardis James QSOS Scholars, by Quilt Alliance.

Ashley Jane Lewis, Carey Flack and Stephanie Dyke will present educational and creative projects that use the Quilters’ Save Our Stories archive of more than 1,200 recorded oral histories with quiltmakers.

Registration at:
quiltalliance.org/events/texti

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2024-07-02

The next Textile Talks (free, Zoom, Wednesday, July 3, 2pm Eastern, gmt/utc-4) is: Coversations with the Artists: StitchPunk, presented by SAQA.

Pre-register at
saqa.com/resources/textiletalks

Promo slide for the talk. Right: a photo of a mannequin sculpture, white with several exposed sections of clockwork, white leather straps, corsets, hinges. It is wearing a snazzy steampunk top hat. Left: blurred closeup of photo with text (in post) on top.
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2024-06-12

Next Textile Talks (free, Zoom,
Wednesday, June 12, 2pm EST):
Professor Teri Walker will discuss her research on environmental activism in the world of quilts.
Presented by: International Quilt Museum

Registration here
internationalquiltmuseum.org/t

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2024-06-04

Textile Talks this week (free, over zoom, Wed. June 5, 2pm Eastern): Sound Made Tactile: At the Intersection of Textiles and Science, with Judit Eszter Kárpáti and Esteban de la Torre of EJTECH and Lindsay Olson, hosted by Surface Design Associaton

Preregister here:
surfacedesign.org/events-exhib

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Promo slide for Textile Talks. Left: 6 small photos of art works (people dressed in red, white on blue fabric, banner in a hallway?). Right: a lot of information text. Text: Sound Made Tactile: At the Intersection of Textiles and Science, Wednesday June 5, 2pm ET, Judit Eszter Kárpáti + Esteban de la Torre of EJTECH and Lindsay Olson, Textile Talks, Surface Design Association

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