TSA is excited to welcome Lauren Baccus as our TSA News Digital Content Editor.
Lauren is a textile artist, writer and researcher whose work centers around the construction of Caribbean identity through textile, craft and costume. She is currently completing a Masters in Textiles and Material Culture from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Lauren is deeply influenced by masquerade and the Caribbean's legacy of resistance and storytelling through cloth and clothing. Her most recent project, Salt and Aloes, is an ongoing archive of Caribbean material culture over the past century.
Lauren has shared images below of a recent work, "Our Gordon is Gone", 2022
Images above: "Our Gordon is Gone", 2022, Lauren Baccus / Photo: Jeanne Canto
Call for TSA Board of Directors Nominations
extended to August 28, 2022.
TSA is extending the Call for Nominations for Board of Directors to August 28th, 2022.
As we continue to develop and restructure our work at all levels to reflect TSA’s active mission to be a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization, we believe this extension will allow for more communication during the nomination process.
TSA and the Board of Directors are continuing a partnership with artEquity.The partnership is focused on organizational anti-racism and structural revisioning. Through communication and dialog with members, along with new approaches to symposium planning, TSA hopes to create open discussion, consultation, and encourage feedback from our constituents.
We highly encourage people from all groups currently underrepresented in the cultural sector and in public discourse about textiles, social identities, and the creative process to be part of TSA’s future. We are actively recruiting and encouraging self-nominations from BIPOC, POTGM, LGBTQIA2S+, and international (non-US based) candidates for the open Board positions.
We have enjoyed being in touch with you throughout this nomination process and would like to stay connected. We are happy to communicate with you directly as you consider being part of TSA leadership. Please contact us at boardelections@textilesocietyofamerica.org
Updated Nominations Timeline:
Call for Board of Directors nominations: May 6 through August 28, 2022
Ballots available: September, 12, 2022
Voting ends: October 16, 2022
Beginning of term for new Board Directors: Mid-January, 2023
For more information about artEquity, please visit their website: www.artequity.org.
