Special Interest Groups allow SAQA members to meet virtually using video-conferencing to discuss and learn about specific art quilt topics. Everyone is welcome to attend Textile Talks, a weekly series of online presentations. No travel is required!
SAQA Online Events
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Artist, designer, and author Amy Barickman will share a selection of quilts and fabric friends from her latest book, Love You to Pieces: A Gift of Friendship, including the Sock Monkey, Yo-Yo Clown, and Sunshine Polly Doll. We’ll explore their...
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Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026 is a national Semiquincentennial collaboration showcasing the importance of the handmade and celebrating the diversity of craft that defines America. This talk will touch on examples of how fiber will be represented in projects over...
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Sue Sherman explains all about her new "quilted and carved" work. These are whole cloth dye-painted animal portraits surrounded by metallic frames painted onto the same cloth. After quilting, Sue cuts away the background and finishes the edges for a...
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Textiles have not only fueled the creative inspiration of artists throughout history, but they have also provided the catalyst for technological innovation. Joseph Marie Jacquard, a French merchant, invented the “jacquard machine” in 1801, which simplified the manufacture of textiles...
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The International Quilt Museum presents a conversation with Executive Director Leslie Levy and Ashley Occhino, Executive Director of the Textile Society of America. Register Now
Other Online Events
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Hosted by the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Center, the Global Equine Cultures roundtable brings together an interdisciplinary panel of distinguished professionals, emerging scholars, and artists to present new research examining the history of human-horse interaction as expressed in textiles. Panelists...