Monthly Programs

October – Paul J. Smith, Director Emeritus of the American Craft Museum, promoted contemporary crafts during a long career as curator, lecturer, and juror.

November – Cindy Hickok, free motion machine embroiderer, stitches figurative commentaries infused with a wry sense of humor.

January – Jerry Bleem invents elegant amoebic sculptures from ordinary, discarded, found materials using staples to shape and bind.

February – Carol Eckert coils thread-wrapped wire into shapes and scenes that reference myths and fables.

March – Debra Rapoport, explained her approach to assembling outfits "with artistic applications of color, texture, and layering" from her closet of collectibles.

April – Janet Koplos, the Juror for TSGNY’s 9x9x3: NEW VISIONS exhibition, discussed her jurying experience.

May – Jason Pollen reviewed his textile-based life as studio artist with dye and silk, designer for fashion and home furnishing firms, and educator at the KCAI Fiber Department.

September – Iris Apfel, fashion muse, whose flair with wardrobe assemblage from collectibles made her a “geriatric starlet.”
October – Hollie Heller-Ramsay develops layered collages using an eclectic array of techniques featuring found materials she collects.
November – Stephen Talasnik invents intricate structures that reference architecture and the influence of Japanese design.
December – Annual Holiday Party
January – Mi-Kyoung Lee is a fine artist, fiber artist, university professor, and theatrical set and costume designer.
February – Heidi King, Senior Research Associate, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Metropolitan Museum ; curated an exhibition of Peruvian feather work.
March – Sheila Hicks, internationally recognized textile artist, pushes the limitations of generally accepted contexts and disciplines with pioneering work.
April – Anna King, “knots, nets, and knits with bits of string;” weaves, makes baskets and handmade paper.using natural Scottish materials.
May – Rowland Ricketts grows indigo and dyes cloth to create contemporary textiles using traditional Japanese techniques.
June – Annual Show of Members’ Work

2009–2010:

September – Richard Saja adds irreverent “graffiti” embroidery to the 18th-century-style bucolic patterns of Toile de Jouy prints.
October – Angela Lorenz, a book artist and author who produces mixed-media, limited-edition, artists' books.
November – Jeannine Falino, curator at the Museum of Arts and Design who was preparing an exhibition of mid-twentieth-century craft.
December – Annual Holiday Party
January – Lois Sherr Dubin, writer, curator, historian, and author of The History of Beads: From 30,000 B.C. to the Present.
February – Sheila Pepe creates large, site-specific, web-like installations using interconnected, linear elements that swing through space and cast transitory shadows.
March – Adrienne Sloane, an art knitter who hand and machine knits expressive, innovative, gallery and museum installations.
April – Elizabeth Whyte Schulze creates longleaf pine needle baskets that she paints with designs evoking primitive imagery.
May – Joanne Mattera, writer, editor, studio artist who uses the medium of encaustic to illuminate her major artistic concerns—color and geometric order.
June – Annual Show of Members’ Work

2008–2009:

September – Emiko Toda Loeb, Japanese-American quiltmaker known for reversible quilts built using an innovative "log cabin" technique of her own invention.
October – Anne Clarke, knitter who creates wearable art, textile wall hangings, and large format digital prints; professor at Syracuse University.
November – Gail Martin; the Gail Martin Gallery specializes in ancient, antique, and ethnographic textiles, and shows the work of selected contemporary fiber artists.
December – Annual Holiday Party

January – Polly Barton, nationally recognized artist trained in Japan, weaves ikat paintings using extra fine warp and weft threads of silk.
February – Janice Arnold, felter who produces "exquisite felted fabrics," works for commercial enterprises, and collaborates with artists and designers.
March – Orly Genger uses knitting and crochet techniques to wrestle lengths of rope into scarf-like sections that she folds and layers into massive, monolithic objects.
April – Orly Cogan embroiders fantastical, feminist scenes that explore relationships and intimacy using vintage fabrics as sentimental foundations.
May – Mia Pearlman creates cut paper installations, graphite drawings, and paintings on paper that are atmospheric, ephemeral, ambiguous, and evocative.
June – Show of Members’ Work

2007–2008:

September – Chad Patton for NUNO, one of Japan’s most influential and innovative producers of beautiful, commercial fabrics.
October – Meg Little, hand tufts rugs, cushions, and doormats with colorful, painterly, playful, geometric designs.
November – Debra Smith, creates fabric collages from recycled silk fabric, mostly kimono; owns Sakiori, a textile company based in Kansas City.
December – Annual Holiday party.
January – Thomas P Campbell, Associate Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, lectured about Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor, an MMA exhibition he curated.
February – Susan Shie, “outsider” quilt artist and teacher, who embellishes her work with airpen drawing and autobiographical writing.
March – Ann Clarke (cancelled because weather grounded flights from Syracuse; to be re-scheduled)
April – Slides of members’ work.
May – Cyrilla Mozenter, artist who works with handmade paper and wool felt, creating two- and three-dimensional works that are primarily white.
June – Tziporah Salamon, performance artist featuring outfits assembled from her garment and accessory "finds," changed to coordinate with her autobiographical story.

2006–2007:

September – Annika Ekdahl, weaver who experiments with tapestry limitations, scale, and digitizing to tell stories with her work.
October – Doug Beube, altered books sculpted into fantastical shapes with reconstructive/deconstructive tactics.
November – Tracy Krumm, sculpture integrating traditional textile processes with found industrial and domestic objects.
December – Annual Holiday party.
January – China Marks, sewn drawings using various fabrics, machine appliqué and embroidery to create surreal scenarios.
February – Jill Heppenheimer, co-owner of the Santa Fe Weaving Gallery selling work by garment and accessory designers; fiber conference director.
March – Sabrina Gschwandtner, combines film, sewing, knitting, and crochet for installations, participatory events, and magazine publication.
April – Janet Eschelman, large to massive sculptural installations that re-shape urban space with diaphanous materials.
May – Kevin O’Brien, textile designer whose studio creates hand-crafted fabrics for home furnishings, scarves and shawls.
June – Slides of Members’ Work.

2005–2006:

September – Lesley Dill creates sculpture. prints. installation and performance pieces using various materials and printing processes.

October – Elena Herzog sews, stuffs, and drapes sculptural objects from old domestic materials.

November – Gary van Wyck, art historian, writer, authority on African cultures, owns a Chelsea gallery featuring South African art.

December – Holiday Party.

January – Jackie Abrams, basket maker who uses heavy cotton paper to shape woven, stitched, and layered forms.

February – Susan Martin Maffei, weaves colorful, pictorial, detailed, large and small tapestries celebrating her New York City life.

March – Jean Shin, transforms mundane, discarded objects into sculptural installation using reconstructive alterations.

April – DoHo Suh, Korean with an international reputation for large, sculptural installations of stitches fabric.

May – Xenobia Bailey, crochets colorful, sculptural, African-influenced hats, garments, wall pieces, and installations.

June – Slides of members' work.

2004–2005:

September - Ed Bing Lee, small works created with densely packed, half-hitch knots.

October - Amy Orr, quilter who constructs surface imagery from street castoffs and other objects.

November - Angiola Churchill, elegant, ethereal, site-specific works fashioned from white paper.

December - Lewis Knauss, small, abstract. landscape interpretations constructed from natural materials.

January - Lindsay Rais, wire vessels shaped with knotless netting, studded with pistachio shells.

February - Wenda Gu, monumental installations with global social implications built using hair.

March - Slides of members' work.

April - Raylene Marasco, custom printed, dyed, painted fabrics for fashion, theatrical, and home decorating customers.

May - Margaret Hluch, quilter and weaver whose imagery chronicles personal experiences.

June - Jorie Johnson, felter who fabricates clothing and accessories using innovative processes and materials.