Surface Design Association is excited to announce Textiles for the End of the World, our Summer 2026 edition of Surface Design Journal. We are living in a period rife with conflict, inequality, and various forms of insecurity, both locally and globally. This Journal examines how contemporary makers are using their craft to adapt the role …
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Surface Design Association is excited to announce Traditions and Techniques in Lace, our Spring 2026 edition of Surface Design Journal. “Exploring vast historical and material contexts, our Traditions & Techniques journals are always some of our most inspiring issues. Lace is no exception. The history of lace is one rich in luxury, ornamentation and skill. …
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Surface Design Association is excited to announce Traditions and Persistence, our Winter 2025 edition of Surface Design Journal. “This issue of Surface Design Journal is dedicated to Latinx writers and artists from the Americas or, as it conventionally referred to: Latin America, which is one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the planet. Uneasily, …
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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
Read More »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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