Textile Talks features weekly presentations and panel discussions from SDA, the International Quilt Museum, Quilt Alliance, and Studio Art Quilt Associates.

Textile Talks are presented free of charge. If you enjoy these talks, help ensure they continue with a gift today.

When: Online at 2 p.m. Eastern (11 a.m. Pacific) on Wednesdays

Preregistration is required and recordings are available (playlist below).

Upcoming & Recent Talks

TEXTILE TALK, May 13, 2pm ET

Thinking Through Tapestry

with Maggie Leininger, Sam Dienst, David Van Buskirk, Kyla Sjogren, Judit Eszter Kárpáti, and Rama Ganesan

REGISTER

Join us on Wednesday, June 10th at 2PM EDT for Thinking Through Tapestry with the American Tapestry Association Director Maggie Leininger and artists Sam Dienst, David Van Buskirk, Kyla Sjogren, Judit Eszter Kárpáti and Rama Ganesan. Thinking Through Tapestry is an exhibition organized by the American Tapestry Alliance featuring contemporary artists exploring complex social issues, historical narratives of craft, industrialization, and computation. Artists included in the exhibition explore the tactile manipulation of threads and materials in both experimental and traditional processes to express concepts that range from a meditative place of making to contemplating the role of the weaver as a computational thinker imbedded in a historical framework of material systems. The talk will feature highlights of the exhibition which is on view at the Evanston Art Center from May 30-June 28, 2026.

This event is free and open to the public; registration is required.

For more information, contact info@surfacedesign.org

Recordings of All Previous Textile Talks

The following is a playlist featuring all of the previous Textile Talks. Pressing play will begin the most current talk or you can click the hamburger button (icon of three horizontal lines) near the upper right of the video to select a specific video from the playlist.

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