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. 

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

Nicole Giacomantonio

Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Nicole Giacomantonio

Nicole is an artist, maker, and mender. A long-time crafter specializing in textiles, Nicole works freelance as a textile conservator, textile repair technician, and an interdisciplinary maker with a strong commitment to textile reuse and repair.

Molly Martin

Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Molly Martin

Molly Martin is a woman of many talents: seamstress, nurse, elementary school teacher in Monrovia, Liberia, and eventually African art and textile aficionado. She has worked at the Smithsonian, studied at Harvard, and taught at UMass/Lowell.

Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Kalindi Attar

During her 16 years living in Oaxaca, Kalindi Attar undertook as co-founder and coordinator of several projects in a Zapotec village in the Sierra Sur. These projects are focused on creating sustainability, community, and innovation at various levels.

Jennifer Moore

Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Jennifer Moore

Jennifer Moore specializes in exploring mathematical  patterns in doubleweave wall hangings. She has exhibited throughout the world,  receiving numerous awards for her work, and has been featured in many weaving  publications.

Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Dorinda Dutcher & PAZA Bolivia

In 2007, the weavers of the Andean rural community of Huancarani asked Dorinda Dutcher, then a Peace Corps volunteer, for assistance in rescuing natural dye techniques and preserving their textile heritage. So began PAZA, a joint effort of the Bolivian weavers, foreign weavers, WARP members, and many others interested in the preservation of textile traditions.

Rikki Quintana

Meet a Member: Fireside Chat with Rikki Quintana

Rikki Quintana, founder of HoonArts Fair Trade, is passionate about using her long-term partnerships with internationally acclaimed master artists to help art and travel lovers who are drawn to remote, unknown worlds experience the authentic and colorful world of the Silk Road.