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Pre-Conference Workshops at-a-glance

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	Baskets and Surfaces Jackie Abrams www.jackieabrams.com
	Professional Development: Creating a Personal Road Map for Success -CANCELLED Janice Arnold www.jafelt.com
	Digital Alternative Surfaces-from Flat to Dimensional Kathyanne White www.digitalalternativesurfaces.com

Kim Eichler-Messmer, Skyscape Summer, 2010, full, 40" x 50", Hand dyed quilt Photo courtesy of the artist

Exploring Color with Dye
Kim Eichler-Messmer
www.kimemquilts.com

Mo Kelman Selfsame Photo courtesy of the artist

Skins & Skeletons: 3-D Textile Constructions
Mo Kelman
www.mokelman.com


	Creating a Focus: Repetition, Scale & Color Kerr Grabowski www.kerrgrabowski.com
	Ordinary Materials to Extraordinary Jewelry Marlene True www.marlenetrue.com


	Magnetic Fields & Textiles: Making the Invisible Tangible Jenny Leary www.ferrofabric.com


	Speaking of Craft: Practice & Critique Michael James cehs.unl.edu/mjames_quilts/index.html

Pre-Conference Tour

Hattie Elizabeth Brazelton gown from San Antonio's Fiesta Gown Exhibit 2012. Each year, the Witte Museum presents a specially themed Fiesta gown exhibit featuring gowns from their collection along with garments loaned by participants. For 2013, the Witte Museum will present "Patriotism in Pageantry: Fiesta Honors our Military" on view April 17 - August 18, 2013. Photo: Gary Stanko / Billo Smith Photography

Fiesta Embellished
San Antonio, TX

Tour Art Cloth Studios, view Witte Museum's spectacular Fiesta gowns & see Fiesta Festival exhibit at McNay Art Museum.

Post-Conference Workshops at-a-glance


	Strategic Threads Otto Von Busch www.selfpassage.org

eTextiles: Activate Your Fiber Arts
Lynne Bruning

www.etextilelounge.com


	Textile Bookmaking Naomi Adams www.killerbeedesigns.com
	Stitching as Drawing Susan Brandeis www4.ncsu.edu/~brandeis
	Be the Critic! Writing Boot Camp for Aspiring Authors Bean Gilsdorf www.beangilsdorf.com

Theresa Alexander & Lalon Alexander, Workshop 2, detail, hand embroidery, beadwork, heart design, golds and browns Photo courtesy of the artists

The (Teeny-Tiny) Pieces of My Heart: Beginning Tambour Embroidery
Lalon Alexander & Theresa Alexander

www.elephantembellishments.com

SDA Buzz

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SDAbuzz [at] surfacedesign [dot] org

Artists/Designers from around the world are invited to submit works of "art/wear" for this ab/fab fashion show. Deadline is August 23.

Jack Millikin Centre - Saskatchewan Wearable Art Gala 2013
jackmillikincentre.com

Craft & Folk Art Museum (LA) has been yarn-bombed with 8000 granny squares from around the world!

Cover Photos
#cafamgrannysquared

Surface_Design: Anna Carlsons' Designing the Self: Patterns of Order and Disruption at Gallery 1639 in St. Paul. http://t.co/tHiKJRCJGl

Planning a trip to NYC this summer? Go see Punk get romanticized at the MET:

PUNK: Chaos to Couture
www.metmuseum.org

Surface_Design: Kathy Weaver will be teaching at @Arrowmont in the beautiful Smokies Sept 29-Oct 5. http://t.co/Pbgdj6bHck

Russia-born Olga Elman is now a Texan & creator of Tioli Girl ab/fab felted fashion. Get your hands on it at our upcoming conference in San Antonio!

Tioli
tioligirl.com

Tasha Lewis (IN) transforms public spaces with magnetized cyanotype butterflies, here:

Guerilla Sculpture
guerillasculpture.tumblr.com

SURTEX - the annual art & design sales event (MAY in NYC) tapped past SDA President Jason Pollen to judge 2013 designext competition for emerging textile designers. Check out his comments on the process on his blog, here:

Jason's Planet
jasonpollen.blogspot.com

Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga's solo show at Southwest School of Art (during SDA's upcoming conference in San Antonio) gets a shout out on local PBS channel, here:

Watch now: ARTS | KLRN Video
A local artist uses modern materials to weave creations representative of her roots.

Surface_Design: Virginia/West Virginia SDA Regional Exhibit at Craddock-Terry Gallery, Riverviews Artspace. http://t.co/09MReg5GsE

Another big fiber moment, happening now:

Orly Genger in Madison Square Park / NYC
www.nytimes.com
Orly Genger, an artist who deploys masses of rope in eye-popping ways, has created an installation of 3 enclosures for Madison Square Park.

Surface_Design: Line by Line: Drawing Explored at Detroit Artists Market now to May 24 featuring http://t.co/YJzOr7HL0Z

Judy Pfaff, renowned artist & professor at Bard College (NY), has been elected into American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Big score for use + visibility of textile mixed media...

Judy Pfaff Studio
www.judypfaffstudio.com

Surface_Design: MARILYN HENRION "The Evolution of A Fiber Artist" Now available on DVD! http://t.co/cCPIGw6mKF

Now on SDA NewsBlog:

In the Loop 3: Knitters Unite in UK
www.surfacedesign.org
Whether or not you use looping techniques to express your ideas, you'll enjoy this glimpse of those who do. Let knitter Adrienne Sloane take you to a recent international confab in the UK, where she encountered lots of local color - along with some knitting royalty.

Surface_Design: Tom Lundberg & Maddy Weisz: Embroideries & Drawings on view now through May 26 at the PACE Center of Parker, CO. http://t.co/9sqVKW1AcP

Surface_Design: RT @erinmriley: Going to be in the special Gender themed Summer issue of @Surface_Design journal. Self-portraits for the world to see.

If you're not yet a member of SDA, you can sample the Spring issue (that features many major maker-participants in our upcoming conference), here:

SDA Journal | Material/Science
www.surfacedesign.org

Surface_Design: Now on view: An online art exhibit featuring new work by Ingrid Restemayer. http://t.co/lFifMHWGEF

Surface_Design: Lynne Brotman at @PoudreStudioArt in their Juried Fiber Show, Ft. Collins, Colorado. http://t.co/IWtESibUz4

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