Archive: April 2021

Thousand Islands Arts Center

The Thousand Islands Arts Center ~ Home of the Handweaving Museum is a nonprofit educational institution concerned with preserving the skills of traditional artists and artisans and supporting the heritage arts. The Arts Center maintains a year round arts curriculum, a permanent textile collection and...

Matthews, Gigi – Yoga for Craftspeople

My name is Gigi Matthews and I taught yoga at MAFA 2019. As a spinner, knitter, and weaver, I know that crafting is wonderful but it can take a toll on the body. I teach a very gentle style of yoga that can be done...

Museum of Arts and Design Online Learning Lab: In the Studio with Suzanne Tick

A textile designer, weaver, and artist working with unconventional materials, Suzanne Tick demonstrates how she used dry-cleaning plastic bags and clothing hangers to create the weaving Matter....

MAD Museum of Arts and Design

The Museum of Arts and Design, based in Manhattan, New York City, collects, displays, and interprets objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design....

Kovnat, Denise – Weaving

Presenting lectures and workshops online via Zoom. Visit www.denisekovnat.com and go to “Workshops and Lectures” for more information. A weaver since 1998, Denise teaches at conferences and guilds across the U.S. and Canada, focusing on parallel threadings, collapse techniques, painted warps and Deflected Double Weave....

CNY Fiber Arts Festival

A weekend of fun activities for adults and children, featuring the sale of beautiful hand-made products, demonstrations and workshops, and interaction with farm animals, held in June....

Weaving and Fiber Arts Center

The Weaving and Fiber Arts Center has provides over fifty courses year round, days, nights and weekends, for all skill levels, for youth and adults....

Eastern Great Lakes Fiber Conference (EGLFC)

Biennial Conference on the grounds of the Chautauqua Institution held in odd-number years in October....

New York Sheep & Wool Festival

Each October at the Duchess County Fairgrounds. Vendors, Sheep & Goat Shows,  Fleece Sale, Breed & Camelid Barns, Competitions, and Classes....

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Museum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology)

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