UPDATE.....CHICAGO TAPESTRY SYMPOSIUM (CO-SPONSORED BY ATA AND GFR)

March 21 - 23, 2003 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago

Here are some comments and photos regarding the Symposium taken from the Tapestry list. A more detailed report will be in the next issue of the Newsletter.

Janet Austin -- “I was so exhausted when I got home, with a million ideas running around in my head, that I couldn't think about what to say. This makes it sound like a traumatic experience, which would be totally wrong; it was really fantastic, but there is a limit to the amount

of new information I can process at once, and I think I exceeded it!

...Mary Lane did an excellent job of presenting the slides on Sunday morning....these were slides brought along by participants, and Mary read the artists' statements and the titles and dimensions of the slides. I only wish more people had brought slides of their work.

Also, I think Ruth Manning, who hosted the forum at the end of the weekend, should have her own daytime talk show! "Distraught Parents of Wayward Tapestry Weavers" perhaps?

...I feel like I have lots of new tapestry friends, unfortunately most of them live far far away; but that just means I will have no choice now about whether to attend the next event! I'm hooked.

Seeing ATB5 was unforgettable, and I was once more reminded of how poorly a photograph sometimes represents a tapestry. Some pieces that I hardly noticed as photographs, just grabbed me and pulled me in.”