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FUNK & FLASH: The Abiding Impulse to Free Self-Expression
40 years ago I was just beginning to work on the original version of Native Funk & Flash. I had no idea it was to become iconic to my generation of counter-culturists – let alone go beyond that to...
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Winning Works: “Fabricate” SDA 2013 Fashion Show
I was asked to be 1 of 2 jurors invited to select award-winning work at SDA 2013 Fabricate Fashion Show after also serving as 1 of 3 jurors who selected the pieces via online submissions process in...
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Textile Design Inspiration: Past & Present
An American Style: Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design, 1915–1928, on show at Bard Graduate Center in New York City (September 27, 2013 – February 2, 2014), showcases the efforts of...
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Textile Travel: “Green Textile, Slow Fashion” in Turkey
2 of my favorite things are textiles and travel, so when a friend called me up and invited me to go with her to the 1st International Antalya Fashion & Textile Design Biennial from October 8-10 in...
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19 Textile Books to Give & Get (2014)
Check out these 19 must-have books published in 2014 – then purchase via either of these Amazon.com programs that generate donations to support SDA’s textile-inspired mission. 1) Sign up for Amazon...
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Festival of Silk Painters Raises Hail in Santa Fe
I’ve attended many conferences over the years – but none with the opening bang provided by Mother Nature at 2014’s Silk Painters Festival, the biennial conference of Silk Painters International aka...
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Why I Made Time to Get Made/Aware
Eager to attend Made/Aware, SDA’s 1st Craft + Concept Intensive - and my 4th SDA conference – I arrived at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts on Wednesday evening, well after dark, stressed from being...
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20 Textile/Art Books to Give & Get (2015)
With an increasing amount of our precious lives spent looking at screens, time spent turning pages of gorgeous books filled with images and stimulating text has become a premium experience. Check out...
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NYC’s Best Annual Fashion Conference
Anyone interested in the history and future of fashion and contemporary design culture should have the annual Initiatives in Art & Culture fashion conference on their radar. If you live in New York...
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Archiving Obiko, Muse of Artwear Movement
Two visionaries who presided over the emergence of the art wear movement (fashion created outside the fashion system) in the 1970s-80s were boutique owners Julie Dale of Julie Artisans Gallery in New...
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