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High Profile Summer for Tapestry

By Linda Rees

Galleries in two major tourist centers, Washington, D.C. and Denver, Colorado, were filled with tapestries this summer. We are attempting to cover the events at both centers in this issue. The newsletter has featured several of the exhibiting artists during the last year; to enable more images of other artists work we have not included their work, interesting as it was to see.

This was my 8th Convergence over a span of 26 years. I go because it is the best opportunity I can get to see the most fiber art possible. Never before has there been such a high profile given tapestry. For the first time, I could have filled every seminar slot with a tapestry or career related topic, often several were conflicting with each other. Two of the three keynote speakers specialize in aspects of tapestry making. Rebecca Bluestone had the greatest visibility of any presenter at the conference.

Our coverage of Convergence provides information from several ATA members. There was little time for writing about the experience to make this issue’s deadline. I am grateful to all sharing their comments. Most were able to see these major exhibits, the ATB5, Small Formats, Woven Journeys and Six of One.

ATA has found the formula for presenting meaningful panel discussions, as evidenced in the Critical Forum. The material covered in Sharon Marcus’s presentation is on the ATA web site under “feature articles”. It contained far too much relevant information and too many crucial questions for listeners’ already overloaded minds to digest the day of the forum. Both Rebecca Bluestone and Kate Anderson generously shared their perspectives.

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