Watch video recordings of previous WARP events below.
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.
Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Marie-France Gosselin
WARP Members Only Program. Marie-France Gosselin is French-Canadian, originally from Amos (north in the Province of Quebec). She has a passion for fibres, wine, and travelling (not necessarily in that order).
Rencontrez un membre: Fireside Chat avec Marie-France Gosselin
EN FRANÇAISWARP Members Only Program. Marie-France Gosselin est une Canadienne d'origine française, originaire d'Amos (au nord du Québec). Elle est passionnée par les fibres, le vin et les voyages (pas nécessairement dans cet ordre).
April 2025
Networking Roundtable: Power of the Textile Community – Stories from the Trenches
WARP Members Only Program. One of the things WARP members always report they value about their WARP membership is the community it brings together. Our networking roundtable this month will be to shine a light on the everyday stories of how textiles bring people together and the value that they get from that community.
Continuing Textile Traditions: Getting More out of WARP and What That Does for ME!
Come and listen to three WARP members talk about how they have gotten more involved and what they get out of it, how to be giving and selfish at the same time. All have good stories to tell, and are interested in hearing yours during the Q and A as well.
Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Yasmine Dabbous
Yasmine Dabbous is a visual culture artist based in Beirut, Lebanon whose work has been exhibited at galleries on three continents.
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?
Continuing Textile Traditions: Encouraging Children through Literature
We in WARP talk a lot about the importance of passing artisan traditions on from one generation to the next, and at the same time the difficulty of doing so in this new social-media infused world. Our speakers today have all written books for and/or about children that aim to help bridge the gap, each from a very different perspective.
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.
Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Jessica Elena Aquino
Jessica Elena Aquino is a first-generation Chicanx multidisciplinary artist from Santa Ana, CA, whose practice spans fiber, sculpture, and printmaking. She reimagines found objects, family photographs, and cultural artifacts—such as cornhusks—into personal relics and mementos, exploring themes of migration,
memory, and connection to the land.
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.
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.
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