04/04/2012
Join SDA Board & Staff in thanking Candace Edgerley as she moves on after 3 years of leadership as SDA President. She’ll be moving forward to focus on her studio work, teaching and travel. Add your thanks via comments section that follows this tribute.
02/24/2012
Welcome a board, indeed! Get to know the face, commitment and SDA to-do list of each of these 3 new and very accomplished board members: Susan Taber Avila (CA), Jeanne Raffer Beck (NY) & Teresa Paschke (IA).
SDA Members Carol Westfall & Erma Martin Yost were awarded an SDA Small Event Grant to invite California artist/poet Joan Schulze to speak at NOHO gallery in NYC in January; a simple concept with unlimited potential to inspire. Patricia Malarcher reports.
SDA Europe Representative Karina van Vught recently planned & hosted a 2nd confab of SDA members at Zijdelings, her textile arts center in Tilburg, NL. Mirjam Pet-Jacobs gives an overview of the outstanding “Ecovision” 2-day program.
11/29/2011
The Linen Biennial, a suite of international exhibitions at heritage sites in the Portneuf region by the St. Lawrence River (June-October, 2011), honored the flax and linen culture that 17th century farmers fr0m Ulster, Ireland, brought to Quebec. Patricia Malarcher takes you on a tour of the fashion, fine art and craft that were featured this year.
10/27/2011
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts recently celebrated 50 years of inhabiting its superbly designed buildings with a conference on design itself. Whether you’ve ever taught/taken a class at Haystack or not, let yourself be transported there by this overview of a well-designed gathering in a spectacular setting dedicated to creative expression.
10/25/2011
“Nothing beats good old-fashioned face-to-face (F2F) to really engage in a conversation or experience a work of art. With this craving for human interaction & creative inspiration, I eagerly attended SDA Confluence last June in Minneapolis.” Get an overview of featured exhibitions seen through Marci McDade’s informed eyes here.
At the close of June’s SDA Confluence Conference, Bette Levy stepped down as Board Vice-President of Development. Active in the organization since 1997, Levy first came on board as the Kentucky State Representative. She took on the board position of Director of Fundraising from 2003-2009 and then assumed the role of VP of Development in [...]
07/14/2011
Did SDA member Marjorie Fedyszyn have your back at “Bodies of Water” SDA Members’ fashion show in Minneapolis? Whether or not you were in the audience, you can experience some of the fashion action off the runway here.
Get an overview of a small symposium that took on the big issues. See who showed up for this North Carolina State University/Raleigh meeting of makers at the Gregg Museum in March 2011. View some long shots of the exhibitions and sample Keynote Speaker Glen Adamson’s take on the art vs. craft debate.
