SAQA Events

SAQA’s traveling trunk shows are designed to showcase SAQA’s diversity of talent and support our mission to “promote the art quilt.” Audiences at locations around the world are able to engage with the art quilts in an up-close and personal...

Imagine an existence where you pull one string and reality unravels. Twenty-seven artists from the U.S. (including three from Florida), United Kingdom, France, and Canada have interpreted the riotous creativity and far-out fusions of punk (Steampunk, Biopunk, Atompunk and more)...

Fine Craft in Textiles and Turned Wood This is a joint exhibition with the American Association of Woodturners . Step into a world where nature inspires the hand of the maker. From the dawn of prehistoric creativity to the present...

What does success mean to you? This Member Gallery theme reaches new heights as it seeks images of happiness and glee--or, you know, planes, birds, or superheroes. This theme seeks to be a takeoff on joy that lands with panache.

A diverse group of artists from 11 countries around the world present their views of the universe in this fascinating collection of contemporary artwork.

We're seeking proposals from fiber artists who would like to present at one of SAQA's 2026 Textile Talks. On average, Textile Talks are attended live by 400-500 people and are viewed on YouTube by 1,700 people.

Join Jennifer Scanlan, executive director of JRACraft, for a Textile Talks conversation with artist Luke Haynes exploring quilts in public art. Haynes, whose work brings together traditional quilt structures, bold contemporary imagery, reclaimed textiles, portraiture, and installation, describes his practice...

This exhibition celebrates the wonder of wildlife and the artistry of concealment. Discover how talented artists bring the fascinating survival strategies of animals to life. Through vibrant patterns, textures, and colors, each piece reveals a story of adaptation, survival, and...

Every day we use pathways to take us from one place to another place. They are places that our feet travel, essential but transitional spaces that take us where we want to go. Which pathways do you use and how...

Join us on Wednesday, August 5th at 2PM EDT to delve beyond the surface with two SDA member artists: Meli Bandera and Janine Brown. As SDA’s Inaugural Artist in Residence, Meli Bandera is a Chicana multi-disciplinary artist, curator, and educator...

After 22 years of dedicated leadership, our Executive Director, Martha Sielman, has announced that she will retire at the end of 2026. Martha has shaped SAQA into the vibrant, global community it is today, and we are deeply grateful. As...

Marin Hanson, the IQM's Curator of International Collections, will discuss 'American Creativity' on display now at the IQM as part of "Material Nation: 250 Years of American Quilts." This portion of the exhibition explores the 100-year period between the 1870s...

Textile Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota is a national center for fiber art. Their "A Common Thread" exhibition has been a beloved tradition for 25 years. This show highlights the remarkable creativity of Textile Center’s member artists. Join Textile Center's Karl...

Upending traditional weaving techniques in the 1970s laid the foundation for Leisa Rich’s 50-year career as a fiber artist. This shaped her current approach to integrating modern technologies like 3D printing, laser engraving, and AI into her work. Rather than...

Order. Simplicity. Harmony. Minimalism is line, shape, form, and color combined to simply highlight the very essence of the medium and materials used to create art. Erasing the distinctions between mediums to call attention to the artwork itself, without expectation...

You are invited to explore the fascinating realm of fungi, from the delicate gills of mushrooms to the expansive, invisible mycelium networks beneath our feet. Celebrate the diversity, mystery, and interconnectedness of fungi in all their forms.

Imagine an existence where you pull one string and reality unravels. Twenty-seven artists from the U.S. (including three from Florida), United Kingdom, France, and Canada have interpreted the riotous creativity and far-out fusions of punk (Steampunk, Biopunk, Atompunk and more)...

Our shared human history includes a violent and shameful component -- that of deliberate attempts to eradicate specific populations due to differences of culture, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender expression and race. Often motivated by those in power, collective trauma...

From the national and regional currencies to cryptocurrencies, money is a faith based tool we earn, acquire, spend, borrow, save and gift. We use it to consume, produce, impress, manipulate and control. For a concept that has absolutely no tangible...

Green is the color of new growth breaking through soil, of moss clinging to old stone, and of algae growing on the surface of a still pond. How does the color green breathe life into your own creations?