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Berea College is a tuition free liberal arts college that offers a high-quality education to academically promising students with limited economic resources. As a federally recognized work college all students work for 10-15 hours a week on one of over 100 positions on campus while carrying a full academic load. This system allows our fiber art students to study in a rich Fine Art program, but also work in our historic weaving studio producing fine handwoven goods that are sold to support the schools tuition free promise. The opportunity to hone creative skills and critical textile theory in our academic fibers program, while learning about product design and production management in our Student Craft Weaving studio is something that is unique to Berea.

www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/academics/undergraduate-programs/crafts/fiber-textiles/

Located in the heart of Detroit, the College for Creative Studies (CCS) is a world-class institution that educates artists and designers to be leaders in the creative professions. A private, fully accredited college, CCS enrolls more than 1,400 students pursuing Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Master of Arts (MA) and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees.​

Students within Fiber and Textiles acquire technical and conceptual skills to create objects informed by materiality, purpose and the sense of touch. A wide range of technical processes and topics. Students are encouraged to discover new ways of working through material experimentation. With the guidance of faculty, students develop an individualized language of color, pattern, and texture both planar and sculptural in form. Traditional and non-traditional methods of creation and an interdisciplinary approach to technology (fabrication and production) are integrated into the program.

www.fitnyc.edu/textile-surface-design

The Textile/Surface Design Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology offers AAS and BFA degrees. This hands-on program nurtures the imagination, teaches the skills, and cultivates the insights needed to design textiles and other products for fashion and home. The curriculum blends conceptual and technological skills, so you’ll study drawing, painting, weaving, and screen printing along with CAD. You’ll gain an understanding of fabric construction, manufacturing, and the importance of sustainability in the industry. You’ll learn to create print and woven designs for apparel, bedding, wallpaper, carpets, and more, and graduate prepared for a wide range of opportunities in this multifaceted field. Located in New York City, the creative center of the textile and surface design industry, the campus extends to design studios, showrooms, museums, and galleries. Our accelerated one-year AAS program helps build skills quickly for candidates who have a previous degree or transferable college credits.

www.haywood.edu/programs/professional-crafts-fiber.php

The Fiber program is an intensive curriculum focusing on the design and creation of fiber work, ranging from textile products to contemporary fiber art. Students concentrate on woven textiles and gain many opportunities to include hand dyeing, stitching, surface design techniques, and much more in their original fabric creations. Textile history courses provide in-depth exposure to textile traditions and techniques worldwide, including cultural and economic perspectives. In the second year, students focus on professional practices for the artist or designer. Business models are studied, and each student develops a personal pathway to future work in textile design, entrepreneurship, gallery or museum work, teaching, or any sector of the textile market. Graduates will leave with a thorough knowledge of woven textiles and dyes, as well as small business skills and professional practices applicable to a wide range of employment or entrepreneurial opportunities.

www.kent.edu/art/textiles

The Textiles program is distinguished by a transdisciplinary approach that fosters conceptual vision, technical facility, and formal and material sensitivity. Curricular offerings in jacquard, floor loom and backstrap weaving, off-loom construction, felt, dye and print emphasizes the position of textiles within a contemporary art landscape and is supported by evolving theoretical discourse. Students engage the contemporary and global history of textiles through a decolonial, feminist, and queer lens. Consideration of the distinctive properties of textiles engenders a rigorous vocabulary to support formal and conceptual inquiry. Students explore hand processes while incorporating digitally-interfaced approaches to making. Individual and collective studio practice is contextualized through the study of histories, political meanings, and social themes that are deeply interwoven into the discipline of textiles. Textiles offers coursework and study to support a BA, BFA, MA, and fully-funded MFA program.

www.meca.edu/academics/undergraduate/bfa-majors/textile-fashion-design/

Textile & Fashion Design BFA students at MECA&D investigate the intersection of cloth and the human experience through a balanced study of textile and apparel fundamentals. Students create garments, functional objects, or works of art that affect those who interact with them. The Textile & Fashion Design program emphasizes engaged making that considers a broad and inclusive view of history, sustainability, engagement, and citizenship while utilizing both traditional and digital tools to actively solve problems.

Located in the heart of the Arts District, in Portland, ME, Maine College of Art & Design offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art, a Master of Arts in Teaching, a Salt Graduate Certificate in Documentary Studies, as well as Continuing Studies for adults and youths.

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Textile structure is expressive and physical. The connections between surface, form, material and meaning create a rich terrain to explore. The Fiber major at MICA moves seamlessly between these in fine art and design, from the hand to the digital. Although there is a strong sculptural emphasis in the major, you'll explore both 2D and 3D approaches, and many fiber students create work that involves installations, performance, video, and other cross-disciplinary approaches.

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TEXTILE DESIGN at NC State is a concentration in our B.S. Fashion and Textile Design program in The Wilson College of Textiles, the only college in the United States devoted entirely to textiles. Students are immersed in a dynamic, multifaceted program that integrates creativity and design, with textile technology and science. Being in Wilson College means our students have access to the latest industry software and production equipment to make their unique creative visions come to life in real-world products. Textile design student experiences include computer-aided textile design, digital textile printing, jacquard weaving, dobby weaving, circular and flatbed knitting, industrial yarn spinning, embroidery, laser cutting and etching, and surface design. The studio-intensive Textile Design program accepts roughly 16 students/year, so classes stay small and students have extensive interaction with faculty. A “study abroad-friendly” semester is built into the junior year to encourage global experiences.

www.newschool.edu/parsons/mfa-textiles/

The MFA Textiles Program at the Parsons School of Design is creating groundbreaking, award-winning, hybrid textiles that integrate timeless philosophical principles with craft and technology, on the bedrock of sustainability, social justice, beauty and wellbeing. A community of makers who are exploring and creating textiles from locally crafted materials, to 3D knitted matter and hand-embellished fabrics, is mindfully pioneering textile-based theory and industries, dissolving the boundaries between technology and craft, as well as investigating the dynamics of materials and systems. Devoted to promoting authenticity, originality and unique creativity in the field of textiles, students strive for their own voice and ultimate potential as professional textile makers, artists and designers in fashion, interiors, research, fine art, architecture, performance, speculative design and various interdisciplinary fields.

www.risd.edu/academics/textiles/bachelors-program

Rhode Island School of Design is a private, nonprofit college founded in Providence, RI in 1877. It is one of the first art and design schools in the US. The mission of Rhode Island School of Design, through its college and museum, is to educate its students and the public in the creation and appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to make lasting contributions to a global society through critical thinking, scholarship and innovation. While RISD's Textiles department has a reputation for preparing students to become highly skilled designers in the field, equal attention is given to a fine arts approach, with special projects and classes focused on issues specific to creating one-of-a-kind works of art. As students develop artistically and their design and creative processes improve, they're encouraged to apply newfound technical skills and advanced techniques to making innovative two- and three-dimensional work.

www.jefferson.edu/academics/colleges-schools-institutes/kanbar-college-of-design-engineering-commerce.html

The Textile Design Programs at Thomas Jefferson University focus on the intersection of artistic craft and technology, where tradition meets innovation. Our Bachelor of Science in Textile Design equips students with a comprehensive knowledge of fibers, yarn analysis, textile construction methods (weave and knit), surface design (seamless-repeating print design and engineered print design), sustainable practices in the textile industry, and collection curation. Our Master of Science in Textile Design harnesses the student's previous knowledge and skills to craft an intensive study of print, weave, or knit development that results in a mastery of that area from that individual's unique perspective. Our Maker Spaces provide the students in our programs with the opportunity to ideate and explore on traditional textile equipment and then translate those processes into digital/electronic spaces while maintaining the presence of their hand.

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The University of North Georgia is part of the University System of Georgia and is designated as a State Leadership Institution and The Military College of Georgia. With about 20,000 students on five campuses, UNG is one of the state's largest public universities. UNG's Visual Arts Department is celebrating its 50th year this year. Weaving and Textiles have been a part of the department's offerings from the very beginning and were led for the first 28 years by tapestry weaver and author, Tommye Scanlin, who remains involved as professor emeritus. The area is currently coordinated by Johanna Norry, a textile artist who employs weaving, handknitting, coiling, embroidery and stitching, as well as digital design, in her work. Courses offered include Introduction to Textiles, four semesters of Weaving, and four semesters of Textile Design.

www.warren-wilson.edu/academics/work-program/fiber-arts-crew/

Warren Wilson College is a small private liberal arts college in the mountains of Western North Carolina that integrates academics within a work program and community engagement. We currently have a craft minor and our MA in Critical Craft Studies program. Our fiber arts program focuses on sustainability and socially engaged practices. Weaving is at the center of our educational curriculum as well as material studies with wool from our college farm, and fibers and dyes from our college garden.