Creating a Connected Textile Community
This month I would like to share a blog I recently wrote for ClothRoads about the documentary film project our WARP member, Cathy Stevulak, produced in Bangladesh. Cathy has an article in the current newsletter. The film THREADS is a … Read More
Dakota Mace is a graduate student in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a 2017 recipient of the Alice Brown Memorial Scholarship. She shares her work and philosophy. Dakota’s work “speaks about the dialogue … Read More
St. Louis ArtWorks is a job-training program combining art and life-skills education to create opportunities for high school students through a vigorous program using the arts as a vehicle for gaining multiple skills. Teens are hired as apprentices, working closely … Read More
Tinkuy 2017, celebrated in Cusco, Peru from November 8 until November 11, began with the much anticipated parade from the Centro de Textiles Tradicionales del Cusco to the Convention Centre, where the meeting was to be held. The colorful display … Read More
ON THE ROAD People who love textiles love to travel because of the many opportunities to learn and experience culture through textiles and textile traditions. Traveling is one way to create or be a part of a connected textile community … Read More
For many of us a whole new world opens up when we travel. Weave A Real Peace helped two young Maya women, Claudia Pérez Pérez and Celia Arias Pérez travel from Chenalhó, Chiapas to Oaxaca for the annual meeting in … Read More
Weave a Real Peace members visited the Oaxaca botanical garden in June during the 2017 Annual Meeting Guest post written by Gail Ryser ….. The thing that I love about visiting a botanical garden is how easily the landscapes and … Read More
This year, due to generous donations, WARP selected three Alice Brown Memorial Scholarship winners. Alisa, Dakota and Nicole will be joining us for the conference in Oaxaca. Here is a preview of what we’ll learn about them in-person! ————- Alisa Ruzavina Alisa … Read More