Spinning and Weaving Week
Studio Tours
We're thrilled to offer activities and events for seven days devoted to celebrating spinning and weaving. Our programming will educate, inspire, and support the fiber art community.
$0 - HGA Student Members
$30 - HGA Members
$60 - Non-Members
Studio Tours
In these one-hour virtual tours, artists will share how they utilize their space to create their craft and answer audience questions.
All sessions will be recorded and available on-demand to registered attendees for 90 days. Not a member? Join Today
2025 Studio Tours Schedule
All Studio Tours will take place at 4:00 PM ET.
Monday, October 6, 2025: Pando Speer and Dain Daller
Generously sponsored by Lyn R. McCormick
Pando Speer and Dain Daller are The Warp Zone. They live and work in their completely handmade off-grid Earthship home and studio in Northern New Mexico. The weaving of Pando and Dain incorporates ikat dye techniques paired with a variety of multi-harness loom controlled patterns. This overlaying of multiple design elements creates the unique complexity and richness found in Warp Zone textiles. They began to experiment with ikat by the time they were dressing their looms for the third or fourth time. The work of the Warp Zone has been shown both nationally and internationally, including The World Ikat Textile Symposium in 2016 in New Delhi, India and 2017 in Khon Kaen, Thailand.
Wednesday, October 8, 2025: Hope Wang
Generously sponsored by TBA
Hope Wang is an artist and creative entrepreneur based in Chicago, IL. Her practice explores memory, loss, and longing in the ever-shifting architectural landscape. She is interested in capturing what always feels out of reach: the last seconds of the sun setting against the factory wall, or the transient space between an open storefront and a shuttered one. She is the founding director of LMRM “loom room,” a project space where she develops programs that emphasise weaving as a contemporary art practice. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Midwest and beyond, which includes the Peeler Art Center at DePauw University in Greencastle, IN, The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in Milwaukee, WI, the Chinese American Museum of Chicago, IL, amongst others. Wang holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Thursday, October 9, 2025: Suzi Ballenger
Generously sponsored by TBA
Born and raised in Indiana, Suzi Ballenger, MFA, is a Rhode Island handweaver, fiber artist, and educator known for thinking outside the box. She has a curiosity for material that stimulates her language of craft, believing the fullest expression of a fiber can be realized through observation, rhythm, and structure. This communication breaks boundaries to reveal unexpected beauty and inspiration. When not in the studio Suzi can be found outside in the garden, swimming in the ocean, and walking on local trails.
Friday, October 10, 2025: Karen Donde
Generously sponsored by TBA
Karen Donde weaves wearables and home textiles for exhibit and teaches beginning-advanced weaving, in-person and online. Conference teaching includes HGA’s Convergence, Northern California Handweavers, Mid-Atlantic Fiber Association, Midwest Weavers, Intermountain Weavers, New England Weavers Seminar, Contemporary Handweavers of Texas and Florida Tropical Weavers. She shared a weaving/teaching studio in Asheville, NC, for five years, and now teaches privately at her home studio. Karen is Complex Weavers’ Past President, a member of Cross Country Weavers and the Southern Highland Craft Guild and a graduate of Haywood Community College’s fiber program. With a journalism degree from the University of Missouri, she now writes for and about weavers, including articles in Handwoven, Little Looms, Complex Weavers Journal and Heddlecraft®.
Saturday, October 11, 2025: Alice Seeger
Generously sponsored by TBA
Alice Seeger has been creating and teaching Textile Arts for nearly 50 years. She learned her craft in Weaving, Spinning, and Natural Dye from nationally known authors and instructors, Peg Osterkamp, Nell Znamerowski, Rita Buchannan, Palmy Weigle, and Celia Quinn, among others. Alice spent many years as a production weaver for Martha Zimiles Designs, and shared her knowledge at summer camps and elementary schools for 2 decades. She currently owns and operates Belfast Fiberarts, a Community Weaving Studio, Maker Space and Fiber Arts Consignment shop located on Spring Street in Belfast, Maine. She teaches workshops, and mentors Studio members while keeping something colorful and interesting on one of the 15 looms in the studio.
Sunday, October 12, 2025: TBA
Generously sponsored by TBA
Please continue to check back as we update the schedule. Spinning & Weaving Week is supported by generous contributions to HGA's Fiber Trust and the donation of our presenters' time, energy and expertise. HGA is an exempt organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; EIN #06-08661organization. In honor of this event, please consider a donation.
Sponsorship Opportunities
The Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.’s (HGA) Spinning & Weaving Week celebration is a 7-day digital extravaganza showcasing the fiber arts with vendor demonstrations and product talks, virtual studio tours, speakers, panels, and a fun fashion show. Each year HGA’s Spinning & Weaving Week Celebration includes more than 40 hours of virtual programming over 7 days with more than 650 fiber enthusiasts participating either in real-time or by viewing recordings. The event will be presented virtually through Cvent with the ability to host an unlimited number of attendees. All sessions are recorded and available to be viewed at the convenience of registered attendees for up to 90 days. This event brings together fiber enthusiasts from across the world and provides opportunities to connect online and in the days following.
We understand that the dollars you spend need to bring the maximum benefit to your company. Sponsors are offered exclusive benefits and services based on their level of contribution. These packages are carefully structured at each level to provide the maximum visibility and the greatest mutual benefit but can be tailored to meet your organization’s philanthropic or marketing objectives. For more information, please call (470) 893-0556 or email HGA@WeaveSpinDye.org.
All Spinning & Weaving Week Sponsors will receive the following recognition in addition to the items listed in the packages:
- Name recognition on HGA’s webpage as Sponsor and logo and link to your website
- Logo and name recognition in approximately *8,000 copies of Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot magazine
- E-Blast sent to HGA’s mailing list of more than 11,000 promoting your sponsorship
- Post recognizing your sponsorship on HGA’s Facebook page (11,000+ followers)
- Post recognizing your sponsorship on HGA’s Instagram account (5,700+ followers)
- Tax-deductible receipt letter for your donation less goods & services received
- Continued publicity for 90 days after the week is over through recorded viewing of each event
