Textiles & Tea

The Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. (HGA) is excited to announce our new program, Textiles & Tea. Each week HGA will host a conversation with some of the most respected fiber artists in the field today. In our 45-minute discussion we will focus on their artwork and their creative journey. We will allow 15 minutes at the end of our conversation for questions from the audience. Textiles & Tea will take place every Tuesday at 4:00 PM (EST) beginning in January 2021 and will be broadcast via Zoom. These broadcasts will be free to view and open to all.

2021 Schedule

Textiles & Tea takes place online every Tuesday, 4:00 - 5:00 PM EST.

Click on the date for more information and to register (registration open through January).

Zoom allows up to 500 guests to view the program on the platform at any given time. Registrants who are not able to login to Zoom at the time of the event may also watch the program live on HGA's Facebook page. A link will be provided in the registration confirmation email.

January 2021

January 5, 2021: Mary Zicafoose “I strive to be an inspirational presence in the textile world.” Mary Zicafoose’s fiber journey began with ikat cloth she received as a gift as a child. Her undergraduate degree was from St Mary’s College and graduate work was School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of Nebraska. In pursuing a more painterly approach to fiber she was drawn to ikat technique which took her on her 30 year journey. She is the co-director emeritus of the American Tapestry Alliance. She has recently published a book Ikat: The Essential Guide to Weaving Resist-Dyed Cloth.
January 12, 2021: Peggy Wiedemann sponsored by Laurel Schwartz Register to Attend Peggy Wiedemann grew up in Long Beach, California. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles earning a degree in Fine Arts with an emphasis on drawing and painting. After college, she experimented in a variety of art mediums including oil painting, pen-and-ink drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics. Peggy found basketry and was hooked. Peggy uses a wide variety of materials and has a strong preference for natural fibers. To these natural materials, she adds metal, beads and “found” objects to form unique pieces.
January 19, 2021: Janet Phillips sponsored by Made In America Yarns Register to Attend Janet Phillips studied industrial textile design at the Scottish College of Textiles, graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in 1972. After working in industry for three years she bought a 16-shaft Dobby loom and built up a career as a commission weaver, designing and weaving functional fabrics for private clients. From 1987 to 2004 she taught a one-day, weekly community education class in Oxford. In 2009 she stopped her commission weaving work to focus on teaching weaving and weave design from her studio in Somerset, UK. Janet is the author of The Weavers Book of Fabric Design, Designing Woven Fabrics, and recently published Exploring Woven Fabrics.
January 26, 2021: Rebecca Mezoff sponsored by Register to Attend Rebecca Mezoff is a contemporary tapestry weaver with a studio in Fort Collins, Colorado. Her work is drawn from the colors, open skies, and symbols of the southwestern United States. She hand-dyes all her own yarn to get the color gradations she loves, and she weaves most of her tapestries on her grandfather's Harrisville rug loom. Her work is in various public and private collections and you can see some of the tapestries in the gallery on her website.

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Be a Sponsor & Support Textiles & Tea

Through sponsorship you can reach new audiences and connect with the fiber community in their homes. We know from our Spinning & Weaving Week events that an average of 1,000 people viewed our videos either live or recorded. These numbers will only grow as our event grows in popularity.

Sponsorship includes:

Recognition at the beginning and end of each broadcast (also to be recorded and shared on Facebook Live and HGA's YouTube channel)
Emails sent to HGA’s mailing list of nearly 11,000 promoting the event with you listed as a sponsor and a link to your website
Promotion of the event along with your sponsorship on HGA’s social media platforms: Instagram (2,400+ followers), Twitter (1,300+ followers) and Facebook (5,700+ page likes and 6,200+ followers)
Identified as event sponsor on HGA's website and on the event listing on the HGA Fiber Art Calendar

We are offering introductory sponsorship packages at $150 per Textiles & Tea episode or four episodes for $500 (call HGA for 4-episode discount). Your sponsorship helps HGA to promote the fiber arts and support the artists who create. Will you be a sponsor?

How To Sponsor:

Purchase your sponsorship online or call (678) 730-0010.

For more information contact Kathi Grupp, HGA Advertising & Marketing Manager, at (470) 893-0556 or Advertising@WeaveSpinDye.org. Thank you for your consideration.

The Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Our mission is to educate, support and inspire the fiber art community.