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Convergence 2008
• ATA sponsors several events

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Channeling your Muse 2008 ATA Retreat

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—American Tapestry Biennials—
ATB7 [Updated with Artists!]
Past ATBs
—ATA Web Gallery—————
Lialia Kuchma: Work Over Time
Web Gallery Guidelines
—Small Format Open—————
Woven Gems Entry Form 2008
GRAND IDEAS 2006
—Small Tapestry International—
Connections 2009 [new link to entry form]

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Link of the month: See our Links Page
Now with links to fiber magazines

Welcome to the website of the American Tapestry Alliance (ATA), a non-profit organization supporting the fine arts medium of contemporary handwoven tapestry.

Update May 5, 2008

May 5: View the work of Lialia Kuchma in our latest in a series of Work Over Time exhibitions exclusively shown in our online gallery.

March 24: ATA announces a new program for beginning weavers through distance learning: Helping Hands (for Members).

• The latest issue of Tapestry Topics Online has full color images to augment our Spring 2008 printed version.

• New images now on view in David Johnson's Artist Pages.

above: Lialia Kuchma,
Urban Turtle, tapestry
Lialia Kuchma: Work Over Time
in our ATA Web Gallery
below: Gallery view of ATB6 July 2006

Recent News Items
(also see our News+Resources page)


February 18: Announced list of exhibiting artists chosen for ATB7!

• You can now download the entry form for Connections 2009.

ATA's Educational Articles presents Archie Brennan, "The Space Between the Warps"

• View the updated images on Inge Nørgaard's Artist Page.

January 15: Our Exhibition pages have been reorganized now that ATA has a new juried show planned for 2009: "Connections: Small Tapestry International."

• ATA presents a new program of Educational Articles online.

• New Artist Pages by Grete Bodøgaard and an update with new images by Lynn Mayne.

• Convergence 2008 takes place in Tampa, Florida this coming June. Join us there for several events!


Purpose of ATA's Website


ATA has developed this site for a number of purposes. First, we wish to extend our mission goals to the on-line environment. Our goals include developing a wide-spread awareness of the development of contemporary tapestry in North America as an art form, educating the general public about tapestry techniques, materials, images and meanings, and supporting our members by providing them with the necessary information and resources.

Second, we wish to expand our current membership and our programs as we grow in the future. In order to do this, we want to reach people who might know something about tapestry and who wish to know more; we want to encourage those who wish to try their hand at weaving tapestry; and, we also want people to find us – and the web provides an accessibility we have not previously enjoyed.

Lastly, we wish to document some of the achievements ATA and its members have attained. As these pages grow, we simultaneously write a sort of history for future generations.

Website last updated on May 5, 2008
(If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact
our webeditor [at] americantapestryalliance.org or send regular snail mail to us at American Tapestry Alliance, PO Box 28600, San Jose, CA 95159-8600, USA.)