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The mission of non-profit Textile Study Group of New York Inc. is to educate and promote a wider appreciation of fiber art among the larger art community and the public in general and to inspire and support artists who share a mutual commitment to fiber as a medium for artistic expression.
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NEXT MEETING
September 17, 2025 7pm
Deborah Valoma
Deborah Valoma is an artist, writer, professor, and professor emerita of the Textiles and Graduate Fine Arts programs at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Deborah is currently working on a multi-year interdisciplinary project that began when she inventoried a collection of one hundred heirloom textiles inherited from her grandmother—most made by her foremothers in villages in Ottoman Turkey and the Armenian diaspora. A combination of research, archiving, and responsive making, this project addresses the role of textiles as signifiers of identity and agents of cultural continuity.
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september 17, 2025, 6pm
Ragna Frodadottir
Ragna Froda is an Icelandic, Artist, curator, and educator with a background in fashion/ textile design. A receiver of various grants for her work and projects, and her contribution to the Arts Her work focuses on the process of making, working with colors and textures, and the history and culture of symbols and patterns in textiles. With a strong passion for textiles, innovation, and craft, storytelling through hybrid layers of craft and technology is the foundation of Ragna´s practice. Early in her career, she ran her fashion and textile studio in Reykjavík Iceland. In the past 15 years, she has been living in New York, Berlin and Reykjavik. In Reykjavik, she was head of Textiles at Reykjavik School of Visual Arts and is currently living in New York where she runs her studio practice and works as the director of Edelkoort Inc and New York Textile Month.
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