Women’s Woven Voices
How can a woven piece of cloth be a powerful catalyst for connection, compassion, and change? INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL
Weave A Real Peace
Save the Date: WARP’s 2024 Annual Meeting
May 16-18, 2024 Mark your calendars! We already have dates set for WARP’s 2024 Annual Meeting. We will be meeting May 16-18, 2024 at the American Mountaineering Center in Golden, Colorado.
Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Ann Hedlund
After a 30-year career in academia and museums, Ann Lane Hedlund, PhD, continues to enjoy research and writing projects, ranging from 19th-century Navajo textiles, to the mid-20th-century career of artist Mac Schweitzer, and to reflections on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork among indigenous weavers in the American Southwest and Mexico.
Continuing Textile Traditions: Local Cloth’s Blue Ridge Blankets
The mission of Local Cloth’s Blue Ridge Blanket project is to help revitalize the fiber economy in western North Carolina, by connecting fiber farmers, processors, dyers and weavers together, to produce locally sourced and crafted blankets.
Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Daniel Johnston
Daniel Johnston is an artist, an avid supporter of WARP, a lover of textiles, and the fiancé of WARP’s Executive Director, Kelsey Wiskirchen. He was also our entertaining auctioneer at this year’s Annual Meeting in Ohio, helping us raise over $5000 for scholarships and our operation fund.
History of Guilds
Have you thought about the history of Guilds? Maybe for you it is a common word and activity. You probably hear about this type of organizations all the time. But for me as a Mexican, it was a completely new concept! INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL
Continuing Textile Traditions: The Women’s Woven Voices Project
The Women’s Woven Voices project is an international, collaborative art project that supports women in claiming their empowered voices through writing, weaving, and sharing their stories. The collaborative tapestry currently has over 1,000 woven story cloths from participants from 10 different countries representing university students, Veteran women, refugee moms, art groups, schools, girl scouts, community members, church members, grandmothers, mothers, aunts, sisters, daughters, friends, neighbors, and men who are allies.
Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Elisa Lutteral
Elisa Lutteral is an Argentinean artist based in Brooklyn, working in sculptural and performative pieces revolving around the exploration of social constructions around capitalism and patriarchy and challenges these narratives of control.INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL