Previous Events

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Video recordings of Meet a Member Fireside Chats and Networking Roundtables are restricted to WARP members only. If you’re not a member yet, please consider joining WARP today!

May 2025

Continuing Textile Traditions: Eyes on Ghana

Free and Open to All. Part of a long Ghanian tradition, textiles remain important as they represent identity, legacy, and a rich, multigenerational national history. Join us as Ellie Schimelman, President of Cross Cultural Collaborative introduces us to CCC's history and mission, followed by a tour of CCC's work in Ghana with Director Michael Bortequaye Bortei.
15 May
2:00 pm
Online
April 2025
March 2025

Networking Roundtable: Cultural Appropriation

Textile artists and artisans have been creating designs and fashions for centuries. Many of the designs and patterns contain symbols that are unique to particular cultures and beliefs. Modern fashion designers have sometimes “borrowed” some of the designs, symbols, patterns, etc. without permission or acknowledgement or understanding. At what point can this be considered cultural appropriation? And how can a partnership be established to acknowledge and respect the original artisans?  
25 Mar
8:00 pm
Online

Conoce a Nuestros Miembros: Fireside Chat con Jessica Elena Aquino

EN ESPAÑOL Jessica Elena Aquino es una artista multidisciplinaria chicana de primera generación de Santa Ana, California, cuya práctica abarca la fibra, la escultura y el grabado. Reimagina objetos encontrados, fotografías familiares y artefactos culturales, como las hojas de maíz, en reliquias y recuerdos personales, explorando temas de migración, memoria y conexión con la tierra.
13 Mar
3:00 pm
Online
February 2025

Networking Roundtable: Preserving Cultural Traditions

Textiles often preserve and retain/reflect a culture’s beliefs, values, identities, history, future, and social structure, to name a few key concepts. Keeping traditional textile practices alive in a changing world can be an arduous process involving time, energy, persistence, and commitment. Recognizing the contributions and perspectives of past, current, and future artisans can bring many questions to the forefront.
25 Feb
3:00 pm
Online

Continuing Textile Traditions: The History of the Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy

In 1966, local people in the Alberta and Gee’s Bend area of Alabama embarked on a journey to restore and rebuild their local economy through a quilting cooperative.  During the late 1950's through the early 1960's, this rural town's families were in the midst of losing their homes, lands and rights to vote. With the help of Father X. Walter, many volunteers, the women of Gee's Bend, alongside the strong leadership of Estelle Witherspoon, the Bee’s first president, the Freedom Quilting Bee was established.
20 Feb
2:00 pm
Online
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