Schools, Museums, & Organizations
Below is a list of schools, museums, and organizations that have offered programming related to fiber art, textiles, and tapestry weaving. The schools listed below provide short-term workshop instruction catering to adults. Degree programs are listed under Academic Programs. Some members of the American Tapestry Alliance teach regularly at various schools such as Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Penland School of Art, and John C. Campbell Folk School. Museums that have hosted ATA’s Biennial exhibition include the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. If you know of a school, residency, organization, or museum that you would like to see listed, please email info@americantapstryalliance.com.
Academic Programs
- Arizona State University
- California College of the Arts
- Cranbrook Academy of Art
- Kansas City Art Institute
- Kent State University
- Maryland Institute College of Art
- Rhode Island School of Art & Design
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- University of Georgia
- University of Kansas
- University of Kentucky
- University of Missouri
- Virginia Commonwealth University
Art & Craft Schools (Workshop-Oriented Programming)
- Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
- Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
- Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
- John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC
- North House Folk School, Grand Marais, MN
- Penland School of Art, Bakersville, NC
- Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ
Residencies
- Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
- Lill Street Art Center, Chicago, IL
- Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland, OH
An extended list of residency programs (including international locations) can be found here.
Galleries & Museums
- 108 Contemporary (Tulsa, OK, USA)
- Arizona State Museum (Tucson, AZ, USA)
- Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA)
- Bellas Artes (Santa Fe, NM, USA)
- Browngrotta Arts (Wilton, CT, USA)
- Centinela Traditional Arts (Chimayo, NM, USA)
- Cooper-Hewitt (New York, NY, USA)
- Fountainhead Gallery (Seattle, WA, USA)
- Gail Martin Gallery (New York, NY, USA)
- Heard Museum (Phoenix, AZ, USA)
- Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA, USA)
- Houston Center For Contemporary Craft (Houston, TX, USA)
- Home Textile Tool Museum (Orwell, PA, USA)
- Hunterdon Art Museum (Clinton, NJ, USA)
- Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, OR, USA)
- Kentucky Folk Art Center (Morehead, KY, USA)
- Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach, CA, USA)
- Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC, USA)
- Mobilia Gallery (Cambridge, MA, USA)
- Mobilier National / les Gobelins (Beauvais, France)
- Montréal Centre for Contemporary Textiles (Montreal, Quebec)
- Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY, USA)
- Museum of Natural & Cultural History (Eugene, OR, USA)
- Museum of Northern Arizona (Flagstaff, AZ, USA)
- National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, USA)
- National Museum of the American Coverlet (Bedford, PA, USA)
- Nordic Museum (Seattle, WA, USA)
- Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA, USA)
- Philbrook Museum of Art (Tulsa, OK, USA)
- Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery (Alexandria, VA, USA)
- Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery (Lincoln, NB, USA)
- Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, Ontario)
- San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles (San Jose, CA, USA)
- Smithsonian Museums (Washington, DC, USA)
- Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (Washington, DC, USA)
- Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, DC, USA)
- Snyderman-Works Galleries (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
- Textiel Museum (Tilburg, Netherlands)
- Textile Museum (Washington, DC, USA)
- Textile Museum of Canada (Toronto, Ontario)
- Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum (Decorah, IA, USA)
- Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England)
- Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian (Santa Fe, NM, USA)
- Willamette Heritage Center (Salem, OR, USA)
- Yeiser Art Center (Paducah, KY, USA)
Organizations with a Dedicated Focus on Tapestry
- Atelje 61
- Australian Tapestry Workshop
- British Tapestry Group
- Canadian Tapestry Network
- Desert Tapestry Weavers
- Dovecot Tapestry Studios
- European Tapestry Forum
- Foundation Toms Pauli
- Gloria F. Ross Center for Tapestry Studies
- Las Tejedoras Fiber Arts Guild
- Studies in Western Tapestry
- Tapestry Artists of Puget Sound
- Tapestry Weavers in New England
- Tapestry Weavers South
- West Dean Tapestry Studio
Fiber Art Organizations
- Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers (UK)
- Association of Northwest Weavers’ Guilds (USA)
- European Textile Network (Germany)
- Fine Cell Work (UK)
- Friends of Fiber Art International (USA)
- Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. (USA)
- L’association du Domaine de la Lice (Belgium)
- Las Tejedoras Fiber Arts Guild (USA)
- Maine Fiberarts (USA)
- Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance (USA)
- Surface Design Association (USA)
- Textile Arts Los Angeles (USA)
- Textile Center (USA)
- Textile Forum Blog (Germany)
- Textile Study Group of New York (USA)
- Textile Society (UK)
- Textile Society of America (USA)
- World Textile Art (USA)
Craft Organizations
- American Craft Council (Minnesota, USA)
- Canadian Crafts Federation (Canada)
- Craft Industry Alliance (MA, USA)
- Craft Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Danske Kunsthåndværkere og Designere (Denmark)
- Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (Kilkenny, Ireland)
- Handverk og Hönnun (Iceland)
- Konstnärernas Riksorganisation (Sweden)
- Norske Kunsthåndverkere (Norway)
- Norwegian Craft (Oslo, Norway)
- Ornamo (Finland)
- Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, MA, USA)
- Southern Highland Craft Guild (Asheville, NC, USA)
- World Crafts Council Asia Pacific Region
- World Crafts Council Europe
- World Crafts Council North America