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TSGNY meets ten times a year, September through June, on the third Wednesday of each month.

Eight meetings feature slide lectures by speakers who are among the movers and shakers of the fiber art world.  One meeting every year is set aside for members to show their work and one meeting is reserved for a special event.

Information about the next speaker and the date, time, and location of TSGNY’s next monthly meeting are posted at the beginning of the month. TSGNY is on vacation during July and August.

Meetings keep members up-to-date with what is happening in contemporary fiber art. They also provide opportunities for networking with speakers and other TSGNY members.

The Textile Study Group of New York welcomes guests. We cordially invite you to attend a monthly meeting―and consider becoming a TSGNY member.


NEXT MEETING:  Wed., Sept. 15

The speaker for the first program of TSGNY's 2010–2011 season will be announced at the beginning of September.

During TSGNY’s 2009–2010 program year, the following outstanding speakers presented programs about their work:

September – Richard Saja adds irreverent "graffiti" embroidery to the 18th-century-style bucolic patterns of Toile de Jouy prints.
OctoberAngela Lorenz, a book artist and author who produces mixed-media, limited-edition, artists' books.
NovemberJeannine Falino, Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design who was preparing an exhibition of mid-twentieth-century craft.
DecemberAnnual Holiday Party
JanuaryLois Sherr Dubin, writer, curator, historian, and author of The History of Beads: From 30,000 B.C. to the Present.
FebruarySheila Pepe creates large, site-specific, web-like installations using interconnected, linear elements that swing through space and cast transitory shadows.
MarchAdrienne Sloane, an art knitter who hand and machine knits expressive, innovative, gallery and museum installations.
AprilElizabeth Whyte Schulze creates longleaf pine needle baskets that she paints with designs evoking primitive imagery.
MayJoanne Mattera, writer, editor, studio artist who uses the medium of encaustic to illuminate her major artistic concerns—color and geometric order.
June – Annual Show of Members’ Work

LOCATION: Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist

40 E. 35th St. between Park and Madison
New York City
(Entrance at street level on the far right of the church itself;
doorway marked #40.)


Admission: Free for TSGNY’s Full, Donor, Benefactor, and Student members.  $10.00 for Newsletter Subscription members and unaffiliated guests.  $5.00 for members of other textile organizations.  Fees support TSGNY’s Nancy and Harry Koenigsberg Award.

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For years, TSGNY members have benefited from programming that included speakers who exemplified the diversity and inclusiveness of the contemporary textile worldFor example:

2008–2009

September ― Emiko Toda Loeb, Japanese-American quiltmaker known for reversible quilts built using an innovative "log cabin" technique of her own invention.
October ― Anne Clarke, knitter who creates wearable art, textile wall hangings, and large format digital prints; professor at Syracuse University.
November ― Gail Martin; the Gail Martin Gallery specializes in ancient, antique, and ethnographic textiles, and shows the work of selected contemporary fiber artists.
December ― Annual Holiday party.
January ― Polly Barton, nationally recognized artist, trained in Japan, who weaves ikat paintings using extra fine warp and weft threads of silk.
February ― Janice Arnold, felter who produces "exquisite felted fabrics," works for commercial enterprises, and collaborates with artists and designers.
March ― Orly Genger uses knitting and crochet techniques to wrestle lengths of rope into scarf-like sections that she folds and layers into massive, monolithic objects.
April ― Orly Cogan embroiders fantastical, feminist scenes that explore relationships and intimacy using vintage fabrics as sentimental foundations.
May ― Mia Pearlman creates cut paper installations, graphite drawings, and paintings on paper that are atmospheric, ephemeral, ambiguous, and evocative.
June ― Show of Members’ Work.

2007─2008

September Chad Patton for NUNO, one of Japan’s most influential and innovative producers of beautiful, commercial fabrics.
OctoberMeg Little, hand tufts rugs, cushions, and doormats with colorful, painterly, playful, geometric designs.
NovemberDebra Smith, creates fabric collages from recycled silk fabric, mostly kimono; owns Sakiori, a textile company based in Kansas City.
DecemberHoliday party.
JanuaryThomas P Campbell, Associate Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, lectured about Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor, an MMA exhibition he curated.
FebruarySusan Shie, "outsider" quilt artist and teacher, who embellishes her work with airpen drawing and autobiographical writing.
MarchAnn Clarke (cancelled because weather grounded flights from Syracuse; to be re-scheduled)
AprilSlides of members’ work.
MayCyrilla Mozenter, artist who works with handmade paper and wool felt, creating two- and three-dimensional works that are primarily white.
JuneTziporah Salamon, performance artist featuring outfits assembled from her garment and accessory "finds," changed to coordinate with her autobiographical story.

2006─2007

September — Annika Ekdahl, weaver who experiments with tapestry limitations, scale, and digitizing to tell stories with her work.
October — Doug Beube, altered books sculpted into fantastical shapes with reconstructive/deconstructive tactics.
November — Tracy Krumm, sculpture integrating traditional textile processes with found industrial and domestic objects.
December — Holiday Party.
January — China Marks, sewn drawings using various fabrics with machine appliqué and embroidery to create surreal scenarios.
February — Jill Heppenheimer, co-owner of the Santa Fe Weaving Gallery selling work by garment and accessory designers; fiber conference director.
March — Sabrina Gschwandtner, combines film, sewing, knitting, and crochet for installations, participatory events, and magazine publication.
April — Janet Eschelman, large to massive sculptural installations that re-shape urban space with diaphanous materials.
May — Kevin O’Brien, textile designer whose studio creates hand-crafted fabrics for home furnishings, scarves and shawls.
June — Slides of members’ work
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2005─2006

September — Lesley Dill, creates sculptures, prints, installation and performance pieces using various materials and printing processes.
October — Elena Herzog, sews, stuffs, and drapes sculptural objects from old domestic materials.
November — Gary Van Wyck, art historian, writer, authority on African cultures; owns a Chelsea gallery featuring South African art
December — Holiday Party.
January — Jackie Abrams, basket maker who uses heavy cotton paper to shape woven, stitched, layered forms.
February — Susan Martin Maffei, weaves colorful, detailed, large and small tapestries celebrating her NYC life.
March — Jean Shin, transforms mundane, discarded objects into sculptural installations using reconstructive alterations.
April — DoHo Suh, Korean with an international reputation for large sculptural installations constructed of stitched fabric.
May — Xenobia Bailey, crochets colorful, African-influenced, sculptural hats, garments, wall pieces, and installations.
June Slides of members' work.

2004–2005

September — Ed Bing Lee, small works created with densely packed half-hitch knots.
October — Amy Orr, quilter who constructs surface imagery from street castoffs and other objects.
November — Angiola Churchill, elegant, ethereal, site-specific works fashioned from white paper.
December — Lewis Knauss, small, abstract, landscape interpretations constructed from natural materials.
January — Lindsay Rais, wire vessels shaped with knotless netting studded with pistachio shells.
February — Wenda Gu, monumental installations with global social implications built using hair.
March — Slides of members’ work.
April — Raylene Marasco, custom-printed, dyed, painted fabrics for fashion, costume, and home decorating customers.
May — Margaret Hluch, tapestry weaver whose imagery chronicles personal experiences; quilter.
June — Jorie Johnson, felter who fabricates clothing and accessories using innovative processes and materials.

2003–2004

September — Polly Apfelbaum, “fallen paintings,” spreading floor arrangements of little shapes hand cut from fabric.
October — Jane Ingram Allen, sculptures and public art installations of paper, painted string, and found objects.
November — Layne Goldsmith, authority on textile history, fiber structure, feltmaking, weaving.
December — Holiday party, slides of members’ work.
January — Dorothy Caldwell, large constructions of dyed, stitched fabric with wood, stone, and other elements.
February — Barbara B. Goldberg, review of the work of basket maker Joanne Segal Branford.
March — Jacqueline Atkins, textile historian; propaganda textiles of Japan, Britain, and the U.S., 1931–1945.
April — Betsy Sterling Benjamin, wax-resist textiles with imagery influenced by Japanese design and aesthetics.
May — Barbara Lee Smith, embroiderer who builds intensely colored, complex surfaces with layering and stitchery.
June — Annual business meeting, slides of members’ work.

2002–2003

September — Janis Jefferies, Textile Dept. at Goldsmiths College; London digital printing artist, writer, educator.
October — Donna Lish, hand- and machine-knitted structures reinforced with beads.
November — Katherine Cobey, hand-knitted garments and large sculptural objects.
December — Miriam Schaer, multimedia book artist using garments as containers.
January — Joanne Russo, explores childhood influences that shaped adult artists.
February — Slides of members’ work.
March — Sonya Clark, African-influenced, beaded, embellished, conceptual headdresses and objects.
April — Beverly Semmes, large, abstract sculptures referencing social relationships.
May — Joan Livingstone, felt shaped into large forms and installation objects.
June — Koenigsberg Award presentation to wearable artist Rebecca Turnbow..

2001–2002

September — Tetsuo Kusama, Japanese weaver of large commissioned installations.
October — Missy Stevens, small pictorial images using punch needle embroidery.
November — Donna Sharret, needle-lace designs of synthetic hair with rose petals.
December — Reception and raffle of MANY PAGES, member-created artists’ book.
January — Henry Drewal, professor/scholar; art of Yoruba-speaking African people.
February — Chunghie Lee, Korean; wearables, sculptural forms, and installations.
March — Donna Rosenthal, small sculptures constructed from household items.
April — Jon Eric Riis, tapestry weaver who enriches surfaces with beads.
May — Emma Amos, artist who includes African fabrics in her painted works.
June — Annual business meeting, slides of members’ work.

2000–2001

September — Annet Couwenberg, hand-sewn mixed-media sculptural works.
October — Tamiko Kawata, jewelry and art objects constructed from safety pins.
November — Alan Shields, handmade paper objects.
December — Three exhibitions of contemporary lace art.
January — Jill Furst, historian; Aztec and Mayan beaded and feathered objects.
February — Jane Sauer, basketry and sculptural forms.
March — Barbara Shawcroft, small-to-massive three-dimensional fabrications.
April — Twylene Moyer, Sculpture magazine editor; observations about fiber.
May — Randall Darwall, weaver of functional, wearable textiles.
June — Annual business meeting, slides of members’ work.

 

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