Event Calendar
Share your event with Surface Design Association’s international community of 3000 artists, designers, and enthusiasts. The Calendar is home to fiber, textile and design related exhibitions, events, workshops, and artist opportunities and open to all.
Submit exhibitions, events, workshops, and artist opportunities to the SDA Calendar by completing this FORM
Questions? Please email: calendar@surfacedesign.org.
Textile Arts Center – Artist-In-Residence Call For Applications
We’re now accepting applications for the Artist-In-Residence Cycle 17 program.
Textile Arts Center’s Artist in Residence (TAC AIR) combines studio access with a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum and regular critical dialogue, providing residents an opportunity to learn and explore the textile medium, and an alternative to traditional higher education programs. The residency culminates in a group exhibition produced and hosted by TAC. Since 2010, TAC AIR has graduated over 100 artists and designers whose work continues to further textile art within the fashion, fine arts, design and art education fields.
TAC AIR Program Provides:
-Individual studio space
-24-hour access to Textile Arts Center studio and equipment
-Hands-on technical workshops (i.e. weaving, felting, machine knitting, natural dyeing and surface design)
-Lectures in textile history and professional development (textile conservation, grant writing, art law, material sourcing)
-Weekly critiques
-Culminating group exhibition
Program details:
-TAC AIR 17 Dates: October 2025-June 2026
-Application Deadline: February 28, 2025
-Application Fee: $25 through February 17 / $35 through February 28
-Tuition: $11,000 /cycle
-Late applications will not be considered.