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

Western North Carolina's Textile Study Group is grateful for the support of  The Center for Craft Creativity and Design, which hosts our meetings.

The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design

67 Broadway St.

 Asheville, NC