VOLUNTEER TO MENTOR (Submit the following information)

Name

Address

Telephone (day and eve)

Email

1. Describe your tapestry weaving and teaching experience

2. Do you have special interest/expertise in specific tapestry topics? (Ex. Technique, design, color, non-traditional materials or shapes…)

3. Would you be willing to mentor more than one student in the same year?

Please send information to Priscilla Lynch, P.O. Box 340, Saugatuck, MI 49453 or jplynch@iserv.net

Letter from the Directors of American Tapestry Alliance

This issue of the quarterly newsletter focuses on education -- not only on learning and developing your own skills but also on teaching others to appreciate tapestry. We hope some of the ideas expressed here will inspire you and we will look forward to hearing your responses.

Symposium

We kicked off 2003 with "Looking at Tapestries: Views by Weavers and Scholars," a symposium with lectures on historic and contemporary tapestries. Co-sponsored with the Gloria F. Ross Center for Tapestry Studies, this important event took place in Chicago, Illinois on March 21-23. It was an excellent opportunity to meet tapestry weavers.

This symposium was scheduled in conjunction with the ATA Biennial 4 Exhibition of Contemporary Tapestry, which was on view March 2-29 at the UIMA (Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art). This was the final venue for this highly acclaimed show which sparked controversy in Carlsbad, California, and was recently reviewed in American Craft (Feb/Mar).
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