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

Eight meetings feature illustrated lectures by speakers who are among the movers and shakers of the fiber art world. The other two meetings are reserved for a show of members' work and for a special event.

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

Meetings keep members up-to-date about 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 to consider becoming a TSGNY member.

NEXT MEETING

DATE:  Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012; 7 pm

SPEAKER:  CAROL ECKERT

Carol Eckert threads a needle with DMC cotton embroidery floss and, using her signature “figure-eight stitch,” begins wrapping copper hookup wire with thread in the colors she has in mind for the work she is about to begin. Using the ancient basketry technique of coiling, she shapes her wrapped wire into forms and scenes that are uniquely her own. “My pieces are often complex,” she says, “but the technique is simple.”

Each piece begins with symbols and stories that reference myths and fables from around the world—creation stories, legends of great floods, tales of quests and journeys, parables of good and evil. The universal symbolism of birds and animals expresses her themes, and these creatures populate the three-dimensional compositions she assembles into formats divided into four groups: staffs, shrines, wall art, and books (and the occasional basket as she defines it).

Her fiber sculptures have become a significant addition to private and public collections—Arkansas Arts Center, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Denver Art Museum, Racine Art Museum, Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian, the de Young Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design. The Jane Sauer and Mobilia Galleries represent her work.

Eckert majored in studio art at Arizona State University where her focus was painting. She began working with fiber while teaching art classes in a community arts center. Currently, she lives and works in Tempe, Arizona.

www.caroleckert.com/Carol_Eckert/My_Albums/My_Albums.html

2012 SPEAKERS:
March - Debra Rapoport
April - Janet Koplos,
May - Jason Pollen.
June - Show of Members’ Work.

LOCATION: Community Church of New YorK
Unitarian Universalist

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

Closest buses: Southbound—M2, M3, M4, M5 to 34th & Fifth;
 Northbound—M2, M3, M4 from 34th & Madison; M5 from 34th & Sixth;
Crosstown on 34th St. —M34, M16 to/from 34th & Fifth.
Closest subway station: #6 to/from 33rd St. & Park Avenue South.

ADMISSION: Meetings are free for TSGNY’s Full, Donor, and Student members.

$10.00 for Newsletter Subscription members and guests.

Fees support TSGNY’s Nancy and Harry Koenigsberg Award.

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For years, members of the Textile Study Group of New York have been attending monthly programs featuring artists and authorities representing all aspects of the world of fiber.

Programs during TSGNY’s 2010–2011 program year:

September – Iris Apfel, fashion muse, whose flair with wardrobe assemblage from collectibles made her a “geriatric starlet.”
October – Hollie Heller-Ramsay develops layered collages using an eclectic array of techniques featuring found materials she collects.
November – Stephen Talasnik invents intricate structures that reference architecture and the influence of Japanese design.
December – Annual Holiday Party
January – Mi-Kyoung Lee is a fine artist, fiber artist, university professor, and theatrical set and costume designer.
February – Heidi King, Senior Research Associate, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Metropolitan Museum ; curated an exhibition of Peruvian feather work.
March – Sheila Hicks, internationally recognized textile artist, pushes the limitations of generally accepted contexts and disciplines with pioneering work.
April – Anna King, “knots, nets, and knits with bits of string;” weaves, makes baskets and handmade paper.using natural Scottish materials.
May – Rowland Ricketts grows indigo and dyes cloth to create contemporary textiles using traditional Japanese techniques.
June – Annual Show of Members’ Work

2009–2010:

September – Richard Saja adds irreverent “graffiti” embroidery to the 18th-century-style bucolic patterns of Toile de Jouy prints.
October – Angela Lorenz, a book artist and author who produces mixed-media, limited-edition, artists' books.
November – Jeannine Falino, curator at the Museum of Arts and Design who was preparing an exhibition of mid-twentieth-century craft.
December – Annual Holiday Party
January – Lois Sherr Dubin, writer, curator, historian, and author of The History of Beads: From 30,000 B.C. to the Present.
February – Sheila Pepe creates large, site-specific, web-like installations using interconnected, linear elements that swing through space and cast transitory shadows.
March – Adrienne Sloane, an art knitter who hand and machine knits expressive, innovative, gallery and museum installations.
April – Elizabeth Whyte Schulze creates longleaf pine needle baskets that she paints with designs evoking primitive imagery.
May – Joanne 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

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, 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.
October – Meg Little, hand tufts rugs, cushions, and doormats with colorful, painterly, playful, geometric designs.
November – Debra Smith, creates fabric collages from recycled silk fabric, mostly kimono; owns Sakiori, a textile company based in Kansas City.
December – Annual Holiday party.
January – Thomas P Campbell, Associate Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, lectured about Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor, an MMA exhibition he curated.
February – Susan Shie, “outsider” quilt artist and teacher, who embellishes her work with airpen drawing and autobiographical writing.
March – Ann Clarke (cancelled because weather grounded flights from Syracuse; to be re-scheduled)
April – Slides of members’ work.
May – Cyrilla Mozenter, artist who works with handmade paper and wool felt, creating two- and three-dimensional works that are primarily white.
June – Tziporah 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 – Annual Holiday party.
January – China Marks, sewn drawings using various fabrics, 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.

2005–2006:

September – Lesley Dill creates Sculpture. 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, and layered forms.

February – Susan Martin Maffei, weaves colorful, pictorial, detailed, large and small tapestries celebrating her New York City life.

March – Jean Shin, transforms mundane, discarded objects into sculptural installation using reconstructive alterations.

April – DoHo Suh, Korean with an international reputation for large, sculptural installations of stitches fabric.

May – Xenobia Bailey, crochets colorful, sculptural, African-influenced 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, theatrical, and home decorating customers.

May - Margaret Hluch, quilter and weaver whose imagery chronicles personal experiences.

June - Jorie Johnson, felter who fabricates clothing and accessories using innovative processes and materials.

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