Whether you’re a collector looking for the next hot trend, an artist exploring a fabulous flexible medium, or a weaver seeking a challenging new technique, TAPESTRY HAS IT ALL. To explore more about what “tapestry” is and looks like – click here

Illustration: Tapestry showroom, Robert Four Gallery, Paris.

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Members take part in our programs and support all of our activities.

This year, new and renewing members will receive special invitations to join us at SOFA WEST in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on June 11-14, 2009. SOFA stands for “Sculpture Objects Functional Art” and most definitely includes tapestries and other textiles! Upon request, current Tapestry Center members will receive special entrance tickets to the exposition for all four days (a $25 value); members joining at the $100 level or higher can also receive free VIP invitations to the opening gala on June 10, plus receptions, tours and other special events.

For more about our membership program and an application form, click here.

Illustration: Volunteer Olga Neuts assisting a visitor at the guest loom, “Learn About Weaving!” area sponsored by the GFR Tapestry Center, Southwest Indian Art Fair, Arizona State Museum, Tucson.

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We are pleased to announce that Ramona Sakiestewa has been elected to the Tapestry Center’s board and Helena Hernmarck has become a trustee emerita. Both are superb tapestry weavers.”

Following its June 2008 annual meeting in Tucson, the Gloria F. Ross Center for Tapestry Studies welcomed Ramona Sakiestewa (Santa Fe, NM) as the newest member of its Board of Trustees. A widely known weaver, multimedia artist and museum design consultant, she joins trustees Alice Zrebiec (president; Santa Fe, NM), Darienne Dennis (secretary; New York, NY), Margi Fox (treasurer; Bellingham, WA), Susan Brown McGreevy (Santa Fe, NM), Lotus Stack (Minneapolis, MN), and Sue Walker (Melbourne, Australia). For more about these individuals, click this link: Board of Trustees.

Illustration: Tapestry by Ramona Sakiestewa, from the “Migration” series. (Photo courtesy of the artist).

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After completing a term on the board, artist and weaver Helena Hernmarck (Ridgefield, CT) now has an honorary appointment as trustee emerita with the GFR Center. Anthropologist Ann Bookman (Boston, MA) and tapestry weaver Archie Brennan (New York, NY) also hold emeritus status.

The Tapestry Center and its board members champion tapestry-related interests, coming from the disciplines of anthropology, art history, and studio art. Trustees have backgrounds in the art, museum, financial and business worlds and provide invaluable advice and guidance.

Illustration: Tapestry by Helena Hernmarck, “Crumpled Paper.” (Photo courtesy of Brown Grotta Arts).

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Have a tapestry that you’re trying to identify? Curious about differences between tapestry and jacquard weaves? Seeking an appraiser for your precious object? Want to care for a disintegrating textile?

Visit our “Resources” section or go directly to Frequently Asked Questions. There you’ll find relevant topics to explore.

Illustration: Detail of a Navajo rug by Daisy Nockideneh, The Gap, Arizona (The Santa Fe Collection; to see the entire rug, click here).

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I want to make tapestries.” –Gloria F. Ross

Gloria F. Ross combined traditional European weaving techniques with modern American painted imagery to create over 250 tapestries between 1966 and 1998. A book manuscript with the working title, A Creative Career: Gloria F. Ross & Modern Tapestry , is moving forward. The work-in-progress by Ann Lane Hedlund documents the professional work of Gloria Ross through her own lively correspondence, notes, and sketches. This unique research project explores the artists’ work, weavers’ ways, and most especially the friendships and controversies engendered by Ross’s basic desire to “make tapestries” and her broader hope to instill American interest in this rich European tradition.  

Illustration: Weavers at the loom, Dovecot Tapestry Studio, Edinburgh, Scotland (Photo courtesy of GFR Archives).

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