Creating a Connected Textile Community
The annual meeting is coming very soon and it’s time to elect our new board members! Right now WARP has 9 board members, each one of them can serve for a 3 year period that can be renewed once. So every member can serve a total of 3 or 6 years. INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL
We are often told that the PLACE of the WARP meeting is an important factor in people’s decision to attend the meeting. Colorado is a GREAT place to live or visit, and we want to share a few of the many options available while you are there. Keep in mind that Colorado in May can be sunny and warm or deliver snow.
May 15 – 18, 2024 (Both In-Person and Live Streaming) We’re thrilled to invite you to WARP’s 2024 Annual Meeting, where members gather for learning, camaraderie, and networking. This year’s meeting will be held in Golden, Colorado May 15-18th. We have an exciting lineup of speakers from the region’s textile community, and a number of fun networking opportunities including our annual Welcome Circle, live auction and fashion show, international marketplace, and discussion groups. Join us!
We are delighted to announce that, for 2024, WARP will again award monetary grants to textile artisan communities in need. The WARP Grants Committee is again offering two grant options: one for Emergency and one for Development. We will be accepting 2024 grant applications from March 4 – March 31, 2024. INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL
Because internet sales are of continual interest, we decided that this month we would bring you a story from the Spring 2023 WARP newsletter about just that. Susan Schaefer Davis has been doing internet sales of rugs from Morocco for just about as long as internet sales have existed, retiring just six years ago. Rikki Quintana is a relative newcomer to the field, starting her sales for “the ‘Stans” a mere ten years ago INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL
The December Blog talked about how the WARP newsletter began in the early 1990s. This Blog continues the story of the newsletter and features a bit of the impact it has had over the years. INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL
As 2024 starts, I would like to thank you for all your support of WARP in 2023. Through the incredible dedication of our board members, volunteers, and the support of our membership, we have been able to expand our impact in textile communities worldwide. Thank you for being a WARP member! INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL
From the very first WARP “meeting” in 1992, we knew that the most important mission of this new organization was communication and networking. Our goal was to connect people who wanted to support textile artists with textile artists that needed support. In 1992, the internet had not yet been invented. INGLÉS/ESPAÑOL