Delvin Lugo, Brothers and Cousins, 2025. Oil on found embroidered vintage linen, 22 x 37 x 3 inches. Photo by the artist.

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Threads of Love: Intimacy, Domesticity and Tender Resilience by Michelle Silver

September 26, 2025 5:00 am /

Threads of Love is a two-person exhibition curated by Beth Kantrowitz/bk projects featuring work by Delvin Lugo, a narrative figure painter working directly on vintage textiles, and Amber Mustafic, an embroiderer who hand-stitches personal mythologies that draw from memory, symbolism, and mysticism. Through their varied practices, Lugo and Mustafic explore domestic environments, familial lineage, intimate …

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SDA’s Award of Excellence

February 28, 2025 5:00 am /

SDA is committed to supporting the efforts of community members to realize their creative goals and positively impact the world of textile and fiber art. SDA’s Grants & Awards program provides an array of opportunities to support members as they demonstrate excellence in the studio and in exhibitions, engage in professional development, organize events, and …

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SDA 2024: A Year in Review

December 27, 2024 4:20 pm /

Thank you to everyone who made this year at SDA possible! We are fortunate to have such passionate staff, board, volunteers, committees, and members who continually help us grow, learn, and expand. Here’s a look back at some highlights from SDA for 2024, and we can’t wait to see what comes next in 2025!  Parallel …

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Crafting Connection: Alexa Kari’s Material Grrrlz Revolution by Grace Cline

June 28, 2024 5:00 am /

I recently had the pleasure of attending the May session of the Material Grrrlz Club, a monthly gathering of fibre artists in Brixton, London. Within the conference room of Brixton’s 3Space International House, the atmosphere buzzed with creativity and camaraderie. Workshop participants eagerly reconnected with one another, sharing details about their current projects, which yarn …

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SDA 2023: A Year in Review

December 29, 2023 5:00 am /

Thank you to everyone who made this year at SDA possible! We are fortunate to have such passionate staff, board, volunteers, committees, and members who continually help us grow, learn, and expand. From the launch of our Online Workshop Series, to 4 unique Surface Design Journals and more, we accomplished quite a bit this year. …

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Out of Hand by Wendy R. Weiss

April 21, 2023 5:00 am /

We arrived in Vadodara, Gujarat, India in late May 2022. The temperature was over 110 degrees fahrenheit, but the town was familiar: we had lived in the city on three previous stays. My husband, Jay Kreimer, was working on a Fulbright-Nehru project creating invented musical instruments from common Indian materials found in local markets. I …

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SDA 2022: A Year in Review

December 23, 2022 5:00 am /

Thank you to everyone who made this year at SDA possible! We are fortunate to have such passionate staff, board, volunteers, committees, and members who continually help us grow, learn, and expand. The past few years have been extremely trying on so many people and I am continually impressed with the hard work and dedication …

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Fiber, Fiber Everywhere: Thread Paper Cloth by Mirka Knaster 

September 30, 2022 5:00 am /

What does it mean to call oneself a fiber artist? When I transitioned to that title, after years of being a textile artist, I didn’t know how relatively recent the term “fiber art” was coined—the 1950s. It’s not that fiber art didn’t exist before then, but pieces that were made through weaving, knitting, crocheting, quilting, …

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Inaugural SDA Southwest Regional Exhibition

September 16, 2022 5:00 am /

The Southwest region of the United States stretches across an expansive landscape that ranges from a variety of soaring monoliths of red sandstone pinnacles to lush snow capped mountains. The high desert plateau repetitively cracks open to reveal cavernous canyons and hidden spring-fed creeks. The overwhelmingly gorgeous scenery combines with the powerful presence of indigenous …

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