December 1: Tapestry Topics Winter 2007 (Volume 33 Number 4) is now online with excerpts and images!
• New Artist Pages for Dorothea Van De Winkel and Patricia Dunn adds a link to her new site.
• ATA Award for Excellence in Tapestry lists all three 2007 Award Winners.
• 2008 ATA Education Retreat Registration Form with correct dates!
• ATA Web Gallery gives more information about this program by publishing its guidelines.
November 20: The deadline for postmarking your entry submissions for ATB7 approaches - mail them on or before November 30, 2007.
November 1: ATA Educator Roster!
October 29: ATA wants to widen the availability of our ATA Award for Excellence in Tapestry with an explanation of the program and forms.
October 25: New Artist Pages for you to view tapestries by Ann Booth and Lynn Hart, as well as updates to Elizabeth Buckley's pages.
September 10: Tapestry Topics Online presents excerpts and highlights of our latest issue v33n3. Lots and lots of images.
September 6: Enjoy our latest Tapestry Topics Feature Article compiled by Mary Lane, "Mounting and Hanging Tapestries: A Variety of Solutions."
August 12: ATA presents Christine Laffer: Lines of Inquiry curated by Mary Lane in our latest Web Gallery exhibition.
July 17: Artist Pages additions and updates include new participants Mary Colton and Ruth Manning, and new tapestry updates by Pamela Davis and Patricia Dunn.
June 28: ATA is proud to present the work of Melinda Heal, winner of our ATA Student Award 2007.
ATA announces that we have a new Distance Learning Program chair: Tommye Scanlin! Learn more about her through our Artist Pages.
June 27: New Artist Pages for Suzanne Pretty and updated pages for Tommye Scanlin. Plus Woven Gems Prospectus available for download in .pdf format. Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2008.
May 31: The latest edition of Tapestry Topics Online is now available. This is an edited version of our special anniversary edition available to members in full color.
May 16: American Tapestry Biennial 7 Entry Forms are now available for download in .pdf format. Deadline for submissions is November 30, 2007.
New Artist Pages for Margo Macdonald.
April 23: Workshop with Susan Martin Maffei set for October 2007 has its Registration Form now available.
April 11: We have a new Feature Article Linda Wallace: Journeys in Art and Tapestry. A very interesting read.
April 6: New Artist Pages with works by Barbara Burns, Alex Friedman and Ruth Jones.
March 5: The latest edition of Tapestry Topics Online (Spring 2007 v33n1) is available for our members to enjoy.
February 1: ATA sends out invitations for its Silver Anniversary Celebration. Please join us for this event April 27 through 29th at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, California. ATA also announces its Silver Anniversary Fundraiser with donations awarded with a chance to win a tapestry by Barbara Heller.
January 22: Barbara Heller: Work Over Time opens in our ATA Web Gallery. Show runs through May 2007.
January 5: Updated Artist Pages by Carol Chave with new work.
January 2: The latest edition of Tapestry Topics Online (Winter 2006 v32n4) is available for our members to enjoy.
December 8: Our latest exhbition online in our ATA Web Gallery opens with Tapestry on the Edge.
December 4: New Artist Pages by Klaus Anselm and Pamela Davis. Take a look at their work!
November 17: New Artist Pages by Kathy Perkins and Kathe Todd-Hooker with recent images of new tapestries.
November 5: Tapestry Stolen
This piece by Kathe Todd-Hooker was stolen from the Albany City Hall, 333 Broadalbin, Albany, OR 97321. It was in an Oregon Crafted exhibition. It was stolen on October 26, 2006 at about 11:00 AM. Please contact Teresa Johnson at Albany City Hall, 1-541- 917-7500 if you have any information about this tapestry. It is called "Variations on a Theme – Sky Paused to Sigh" and measures 3 inches by 10 inches.
September 19: The latest edition of Tapestry Topics Online (Fall 2006 v32n3) is available.
July 10: New ATA Web Gallery exhibition opens! Fractured Landscapes curated by Janet Austin and featuring the work of Suzanne Pretty, July - October, 2006.
July 10: Catalog available for American Tapestry Biennial Six see News+Resources.
• June 12: New Artist Pages from Joyce Hayes now online.
• June 2: Tapestry Topics v32n2 Summer issue now online.
• June 2: GRAND IDEAS - Small Format Tapestries available for your enjoyment online, through a website designed by students at Kendall College of Art and Design.
• May 16: ATA presents its first ATA Student Award to Mary Caitlin Sellers of Richmond, Virginia.
• May 16: American Tapestry Alliance announces its General Bi-annual Meeting 2006 set for Grand Rapids, MI, July 1, 2006.
• February 1: Mark Adams, known as an artist and tapestry designer, died at home in San Francisco on Tuesday, January 28, 2006 after a brief illness at the age of 80.
As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle: "Mr. Adams was known for the grace and delicacy of his spare, single-object still life pictures, and for the big stained-glass windows and tapestries he was commissioned to create for churches, synagogues, libraries and office buildings around the Bay Area. He made stained-glass windows for Temple Emanu-El and Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and the Lafayette-Orinda United Presbyterian Church, among others, and did tapestries for such diverse places as the San Francisco International Airport, the Marina branch of the San Francisco Public Library and the Dallas Fairmont Hotel."
Workshops
• Correspondence course for Tapestry – Program run by the South West Institute of TAFE, Warrnambool, Victoria Australia, is a 6 yr part time course which includes art subjects, drawing, design, painting, printing, photography along with textile technology, plus the all year units on weaving. I think it is now called a Diploma of Art - Tapestry. check out the website, Marie Cook is the main lecturer for this course. www.swtafe.vic.edu.au/
Publications
• Announcement of Norwegian Tapestry Book – Christine Spangler writes: I have translated a classic text on Norwegian tapestry techniques (Innforing i Billedvev) to English. It will be published in April under the title Norwegian Tapestry Weaving. The book was written by Maria Brekke Koppen, Professor at the State College for Art Teachers in Oslo. My translation is largely from the second edition of her book (1978), but it also contains some additions on mounting and finishing from the third and last edition (1988).
Norwegian tapestry technique relies upon dovetail joins along a vertical line. Unlike continental tapestry there are no slits that need to be closed by sewing. This is a wonderful book – full of very clear diagrams and pictures. It is profusely illustrated in black and white, but it also has four pages of color pictures. For those who know Scandinavian tapestry, this is really the "Bible" for Norwegian techniques.
The book will be published in April and will retail for $48.95. Right now she is taking pre-publication orders at a reduced price of $43.95. Please contact her: via email.
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