Textiles × Science : Textile Technology Research Group

06/06/2022

Nominations and Volunteers Virtual Information Session
on June 11, 2022
9 am PDT / 10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 pm EDT

* Would you like to volunteer and serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the Textile Society of America?

* Do you know a colleague with leadership and organizational skills that should be nominated?

* Would you like to learn about ways to get involved with the organization?

Join members of the Board of Directors and Members of the Nominations and Elections Committee to learn how to get involved and share your ideas to help develop and grow our organization.

TSA is a volunteer-run organization and relies on your participation and commitment to our fields!

Nonmembers are encouraged to attend!

You will receive a Zoom link in your registration confirmation email.

The Board plays an essential role for the organization and we ask all members to thoughtfully consider potential nominees.

Current open positions:
* Treasurer
* Assistant Director of Membership and Outreach
* Assistant Director of Communications
* Assistant Director of Volunteers and Mentorship
* Assistant Director of Equity and Inclusion
* Assistant Director of Awards and Scholarships
* Assistant Director of Programs

We are looking forward to meeting you!

Register for TSA Nominations and Volunteers Virtual Information Session on June 11, 2022
9 am PDT / 10 am MDT / 11 am CDT / 12 pm EDT
* Would you like to volunteer and serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the Textile Society of America?
* Do you know a colleague with leadership and organizational skills that should be nominated?
* Would you like to learn about ways to get involved with the organization?
Join members of the Board of Directors and Members of the Nominations and Elections Committee to learn how to get involved and share your ideas to help develop and grow our organization.
TSA is a volunteer-run organization and relies on your participation and commitment to our fields!
Nonmembers are encouraged to attend!
You will receive a Zoom link in your registration confirmation email.
The Board plays an essential role for the organization and we ask all members to thoughtfully consider potential nominees.
Current open positions:
* Treasurer
* Assistant Director of Membership and Outreach
* Assistant Director of Communications
* Assistant Director of Volunteers and Mentorship
* Assistant Director of Equity and Inclusion
* Assistant Director of Awards and Scholarships
* Assistant Director of Programs

We are looking forward to meeting you!

05/21/2022

03/12/2022

Flowing garments woven from the cloth were worn by Mughal rulers before the fabric enchanted European aristocrats.

01/15/2022

Posted • The Tang is excited to announce ‘Radical Fiber: A Symposium on Art and Science’ on January 28–29, 2022! The program, held on Zoom, features two curator’s tours; four panel conversations with artists, innovators, scientists, and thinkers; and discussion sessions in which audience members can meet and share ideas from the day. Learn more + register at the link in our bio! ⁠
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We will think creatively about the future of textiles—their role in our lives historically and how moments of scientific progress in textiles can inspire future innovation, their technological possibilities for social good, the need for a more sustainable and climate-friendly textile industry, and more.⁠
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Held in conjunction with the opening of ‘Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science,’ both the symposium and exhibition embrace the values of cross-disciplinary collaboration and engagement and highlight the value of artists to offer solutions to our most challenging questions today. ⁠
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🎥: Soft Monitor ( ’12 and ), ‘c o m p u t e r 1.0’ (from a previous installation), 2018, hollow polymer tubing, natural fiber thread, liquid, operating system, courtesy ⁠
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01/09/2022

Nearly 200 years ago, Dhaka muslin was the most valuable fabric on the planet. Then it was lost altogether. How did this happen? And can we bring it back?

12/02/2021

Posted • Recently published "When Linen Remembers" in Material Intelligence, edited by Glenn Adamson, Chipstone Foundation. LINK IN BIO.

Excerpt: "Linen is difficult to weave. Not supple, not pliant—it is stately and proud. It does not bend freely to the will of others and is downright defiant at times. But as we dress our looms, we are enticed by linen’s whispers. We hear its origin story, we understand its stalk-straight lineage. So we come to linen with honey and dates, herbs and leaves, water and smoke, and together play the loom in a rhythm of remembering. As we weave, its archaic memory flows into our hands, its golden seeds flood us with the gift of recollection. Memory is linen’s mother tongue."

11/01/2021

ALIPIO MELO, DANITZA WILLKA, and MARÍA JOSÉ MURILLO:
Noqanchis Awaqkuna (We The Weavers / Nosotrxs lxs tejedorxs)

Wednesday, November 3rd, 4:15-5:45 pm CST
Free and open to the public. Virtual on Zoom. Join on Zoom here:
saic-edu.zoom.us/j/82285482070
This event will take place in English and Spanish, with live, simultaneous interpretation in both languages.

NOQANCHIS AWAQKUNA
(We The Weavers)

This lecture brings together members of the Noqanchis group (Union of Textile Artists - Andes of Peru), recently formed by prominent young Indigenous weavers from Pitumarca, Peru, Alipio Melo and Danitza Willka, together with artist María José Murillo (SAIC MFA 2019). In Quechua, noqanchis translates to "we all". It is an inclusive 'we' (+) as opposed from noqayku, which refers to a restrictive 'we' (-). Unlike Western languages, Quechua maintains the same root for 'I' [noqa] and for 'we' [noqanchis/noqayku], demonstrating the inseparable link between the individual and the community in the construction of Andean identity.

The presentation will create a space for the weavers to speak from their most personal voice, thereby subverting the historical representations that the western perspective has imposed on indigenous cultures. Textile artists from Pitumarca – better known as "The Capital of Andean Weaving" – will share reflections on how they keep their traditions alive, focusing on the ancestral and trans-temporal technology of the backstrap loom as a tool for contemporary cultural production. In this way, weaving is lived in the Andes not only as an activity, but also as an episteme, establishing relationships between the Earth beings and the Cosmos, between the past and the future.

Made possible by the generous support of the William Bronson and Grayce Slovett Mitchell Lectureship in Fiber and Material Studies. All lectures will be live captioned by CART. For additional access requests, including ASL interpretation or audio description, visit saic.edu/access.

[Image description: Outdoors in the sun, three people sit cross-legged in a circle on the ground. Each holds a strand of the yarn being spun together onto a drop spindle in the center.]