Greetings from Canada! The Canadian Crafts Federation / Fédération Canadienne des métiers d’art has declared 2020 as a year-long celebration of Canadian fine craft. In Craft Year 2020 member artists are encouraged to push themselves to do something new. In our monthly newsletters, Susan M. Clark (SDA Membership Committee) highlighted a Canadian SDA member from …
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Slow Fiber Studios in Berkeley, California continues their mission bridging our interconnected conversations with the needle, thread, dye, and fiber. As a response to our dramatic paradigm shift and a rapid virtual network spanning across the world, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, founder of Slow Fiber Studios, with Ana Lisa Hedstrom, esteemed shibori artist, share their expertise …
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2020 is coming to a close and the holidays are fast approaching, which means it’s time for SDA’s yearly list of the best books to give (and get) the holiday season! At the start of the year, we began the SDA Book Club reviewing and promoting fiber and textile-themed books. Here’s a review of those …
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This month’s Member Spotlight is Anubha Sood. Sood’s practice is centered around the sustainable ecology of making that provokes a sentiment addressing our current systems of production and their entanglement with the natural world. My work emerges out of an urgency to engage the body in the act of making. It’s like plucking grass when …
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I sort through the knitted blocks sent to me by participants in Knit Democracy Together knitting circles. I am stitching them together to form a sculpture of a state capitol building. Alone in my studio, I feel surrounded by a community of knitters who are concerned about the future of our democratic system. Like the …
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This month’s member spotlight is Leslie Horan Simon. Leslie’s efforts to protect rare and endangered sheep breeds inspires her work and her focus on using carefully sourced wools. Leslie is based in New York City. My medium is wool. Not just any wool but that which comes from rare and endangered breeds of sheep. My …
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This month’s featured member spotlight is Saberah Malik, a Rhode Island-based artist who has created a unique method for forming dimensional cloth to seek a “symbiotic bond between contemporaneity and inherited cultural experiences.” I grew up surrounded by rich textiles for everyday and for ceremonial usage, some belonging to my Mughal great-grandmother. Her 1909-1910 travelogue, …
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Stewart Kelly has been an artist for over 20 years, and with that comes so many memories of exhibitions, projects, and learning. This article reflects on his 20 years of creative practice and what’s he’s learned along the way. “I have always instinctively drawn, stitched and constructed objects. It was my interest in drawing which …
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I am a life long fiber artist with experience in many processes and techniques: embroidery, knitting, crochet, basketry, needlepoint, sewing, felting, stitching, and weaving. But it is at the loom where my heart beats the strongest, and I have been weaving for over 45 years now. The act of constructing fabric, one thread at a time, is …
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SDA’s Creative Promise Awards are given out to recognize excellence in a range of work in textile and fiber media by one outstanding undergraduate student and one graduate student. Our winners for 2020 were recently announced and this week we’re spotlighting Khadija Aziz, a Toronto-based digital textile artist and educator. Her fascination with the unknown has …
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