TSA Preservation and Conservation Affinity Meeting:
Documentation Session 2
Saturday, July 9th
1pm EDT / 10 am PDT
The Preservation and Conservation Affinity Group meetings encourage holistic practices, open conversation, and new ideas. We are hoping to discuss the different ways folks document their work, be they artists, engineers, scientists, conservators, curators, or crafters. Our meetings tend to be attended by textile enthusiasts but if you are passionate about documentation practices, please feel comfortable to come and partake or just listen.
Two conservators, Camille Breeze and Marianne Weldon, presented on their documentation formats during our last meeting in April. After hearing from the attendees that they wanted time to discuss, we decided to host a second meeting about documentation. We encourage attendees to discuss Camille and Marianne’s formats, introduce their own formats, ask questions, pose theories, and get creative. This will be an informal discussion with no presentations.
Warm regards,
Kris and Bellie
Book Talk—Diasporic Threads:
Black Women, Fibre & Textiles
Wednesday, July 6th
12pm – 1:30pm EDT
Join author and TSA Board Member, Dr. Sharbreon Plummer, and Michelle Bishop, founder and director of Harlem Needle Arts, for an engaging discussion about Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre and Textiles, a new publication from Common Threads Press. This event is presented by Tatter Library.
Diasporic Threads is an important new publication that highlights Black women’s contributions to art and history through fibre-related mediums.
This publication surveys the history of Black women and textiles in North America, and spotlights five artists through a series of interviews, paying careful attention to the intersections of race, art, and cultural memory.
As Dr. Plummer writes in her book, “Our relationship to the medium contains stories that reveal ties to our culture, community, resistance and self-determination. Unfortunately, many of the women who served as bearers of culture and creativity through this medium have gone unnamed in historical writings and recollections… These writings attempt to pay homage to the stories that have gone untold and the foremothers whose love and labour served as the foundations of our creativity”.
Tatter Library is a registered 501(c)3. For this event, a portion of the proceeds will also go to support Harlem Needle Arts. If you are able to contribute more, you may pick a different amount in the drop down list.
