2019 Schedule

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• February 20 -  Heather Hietala - Pelmet Replication Project for the Biltmore Estate
• March 20  Jaana Mattson - Creating Impressionistic Fiber Landscapes
• April 17 -  Catharine Ellis - Why Natural Dyes Now?
• May 15 - TBD
• Summer -  Warren Wilson Critical Craft Presentations. More information to follow. 
• September 18 -TBD
• October 16 - TBD
• November 20 - TBD
• December 18 - TBD

2018 Schedule

• January 17 - Beth Ross Johnson -  Christopher Alexander’s Nature of Order and Order of Nature
• February 21 -  Amy Putansu - New Work: Bridging Personal and Environmental Motivations
• March 18  Amanda Thatch - Weaving in the Present Tense: Textiles Commissioned for Penland
• April 18 -  Elizabeth Johnston- The Warp Weighted Loom: From the Bronze Age to the Present
• May 16 - Cathryn Washell - ‘The Handweavers of Modern-Day Southern Appalachia: An Ethnographic Case Study
• June 20 -  Judi Jetson - A Woven History of Biltmore Home Industries: A Field Trip
• July 18 - Susan Leveille - Two Weaving Sisters: Remembrances of Laura and Lucy Morgan
• August - no program
• September 19 - April Dauscha - Industry and the Arts in Upstate South Carolina
• October 17 - Judie Dysart - Crafts of Uzbekistan
• November 14 - Jessica Kaufman - Batik and Bandhani in Gujarat
• December 19 - Karen Donde - Mary Meigs Atwater
• January 16 - Heather Hietala - Biltmore Pelmet Project

2017  Schedule

• January 18 - Sally Biggers -  The Art and History of Hand Made Laces
• February 15 -  Sarah Chester and Libby O'Bryan - Carolina Textile District
• March 15  Bhakti Ziek - "Lexicon"
• April 19 -  Tommye Scanlin - The Nature of Things
• May 17 - Anne Battram -  ‘Slipcovers – Old and New’ and ‘Threads of Feeling’
• June 21 -  Leigh Anne Hilbert - Overlapping Disciplines: Being A Jane of All Trades
• July 19- Judy Levine - A Life in Color
• August 16 - Martha Owen - From Sleeping Beauty to the Spinning Mule
• September 20 - Heather Hietala  - A Journey of Exploration
• October 25 - Barbara Zaretsky  - Pattern and the Subconscious: Design Path to Cloth
• November 15 - Debra Frasier - Cloth and the Picture Book: Storytelling with Textile Techniques
• December 21 - Catharine Ellis - The History of the World in Textile Objects