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Blog Post Tag: SDA Journal

Emulate, Recreate, Translate, SDA International Exhibition in Print Fall 2025 Journal, Out Now!

October 13, 2025 5:00 am /

Surface Design Association is excited to announce Emulate, Recreate, Translate SDA International Exhibition in Print, our Fall 2025 edition of Surface Design Journal. This year’s Exhibition in Print challenged artists to think about the ways fiber can be emulated, recreated and translated into other qualities and contexts. Whether that’s through metaphor or materiality, culture, language …

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Modern Weavers / New Spirit, Summer 2025 Journal, Out Now!

July 21, 2025 5:00 am /

Surface Design Association is excited to announce Modern Weavers / New Spirit, our Summer 2025 edition of Surface Design Journal. This issue takes a deep dive into contemporary weaving while acknowledging a long list of modern innovators whose threads can be located in contemporary approaches. As Patricia Malarcher points out, “textile art produced since the …

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Felting: Wet & Dry, Spring 2025 Journal, Out Now!

May 12, 2025 5:00 am /

Surface Design Association is excited to announce Felting: Wet & Dry, our Spring 2025 edition of Surface Design Journal. This issue of Surface Design Journal highlights the material and cultural qualities of wool and the practice of felting across the world…It would seem that no matter where you are located in the world, wool and …

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Friends with Fiber Winter 2024 Journal, Out Now!

January 3, 2025 12:00 am /

Surface Design Association is excited to announce Friends with Fiber, our Winter 2024 edition of Surface Design Journal. “Artists are natural explorers⎯drawn to experimentation in concept, material and technique. Friends with Fiber celebrates those individuals who push the boundaries by combining disparate materials and techniques in exciting new ways. For example, clay and fiber appear …

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Embrace: Expect the Unexpected, SDA International Exhibition in Print Fall 2024 Journal, Out Now!

October 14, 2024 5:00 am /

Surface Design Association is excited to announce Embrace: Expect the Unexpected, our Fall 2024 edition of Surface Design Journal. “Embrace can take on many meanings, from embracing your identity and who you are to embracing the mistakes and unplanned elements that go hand-in-hand with making. The theme also lends itself to collaborative work and the …

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Wrapping & Binding: Summer 2024 Journal, Out Now!

July 15, 2024 5:00 am /

Surface Design Association is excited to announce Wrapping & Binding, our Summer 2024 edition of Surface Design Journal. “Wrapping and binding practices have been used to imbue objects or individuals with meaning by humans throughout history. Drawing inspiration from the traditions of various cultures—the handfasting or marriage binding customs of ancient Ireland, the Furoshiki or …

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Seeing / Being Seen: LGBTQIA+ Writers on LGBTQIA+ Fiber Artists: Winter 2023 SDJ, Out Now!

December 27, 2023 5:00 am /

Surface Design Association is excited to announce Seeing / Being Seen: LGBTQIA+ Writers on LGBTQIA+ Fiber Artists, our Winter 2023 edition of Surface Design Journal. Led by Guest Editor, Rebekah Frank, this special edition of the SDJ focuses on LGBTQIA+ writers exploring LGBTQIA+ artists, highlighting the complexity of intersectional identity and how it informs creative …

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Lasting Impression EIP: Fall 2023 SDJ, Out Now!

October 16, 2023 5:00 am /

Surface Design Association is excited to announce Lasting Impression: SDA International Exhibition in Print, our Fall 2023 edition of Surface Design Journal.  “Readers may recognize a familiarity, a closeness or shared intimacy in the works chosen for SDA’s eighth annual International Exhibition in Print. This year we had the privilege of welcoming Lorna Hamilton Brown, …

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SDA 45th Anniversary: Spring 2023 SDJ, Out Now!

May 1, 2023 5:00 am /

Surface Design Association is excited to announce our first Journal of the year: SDA 45th Anniversary, Spring 2023 edition of Surface Design Journal. The 45th Anniversary issue revisits the evolution of the Journal, to take a deep dive into the issues that mattered then, and still matter today. The issue begins with former editor Patricia …

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