Creating a Connected Textile Community
Teena Jennings began her professional textile life as a museum conservator. She learned to spin and weave and use natural dyes. Earning a Ph.D. studying culturally relevant textiles, she taught all manner of textile-related courses before retiring six years ago.
Carol Ventura taught ceramics, photography, metalsmithing, and printmaking before becoming Tennessee Technological University’s Art Historian in 1994. She is the author of Maya Hair Sashes Backstrap Woven in Jacaltenango, Guatemala and three books about tapestry crochet.
Linda Temple was a co-founder of WARP more than 30 years ago. In addition to a quarter-century of service to WARP as newsletter editor, Linda has demonstrated WARP’s core values through a lifetime of socially-oriented service.
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.
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 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 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.
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.