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Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre is the home of a unique experiment in creative weaving that has produced tapestries admired and collected by museums and galleries around the world. The life work of its founder Ramses Wissa Wassef, (1911-1974) was dedicated to realizing the innate creativity of ordinary young Egyptian villagers. Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre at Harrania, not far from the Pyramid...

American Tapestry Alliance Fall 2023 Speaker: Simone Elizabeth Saunders (she/her) is a textile artist based in Mohkinstsis - Calgary, Canada. She holds a B.F.A. with Distinction from the Alberta University of Arts in 2020. Her textiles are hand tufted in the medium of rug-making using a punch needle and tufting machine. Saunders explores themes of the diaspora, ancestorship, and Black womanhood...

ATA’s inaugural Speaker is Kira Dominguez Hultgren. She spoke with ATA members on Tuesday, February 21, 2023. Dominguez Hultgren is a U.S.-based artist and educator. With a dual-degree (Masters in Fine Arts and a Masters in Arts) in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts, her research interests include material and embodied rhetorics, re-storying material culture, and w...

A recorded Zoom presentation by Włodzimierz Cygana who was American Tapestry Alliance's Fall 2022 Ambassador. Włodzimierz Cygana resides in Poland and exhibits his work internationally. Cygana explores the dimensional aspects of weaving, playing with the directionality of warp threads, and recently has incorporated optical fibers as a material.

Kevin Aspaas talks about his experiences as a Diné weaver living in Shiprock, NM, who explores his connection to the deep cultural roots of Navajo cloth production from raising sheep, growing cotton, natural dyeing, weaving fabrics, and rugs. In addition to weaving with the wool he harvests from his flock that he shepherds, Kevin Aspaas also cultivates a variety of cotton crops that he spins by...

American Tapestry Alliance's 2018 video on tapestry weaving.

A 20 minute video explaining the process of tapestry weaving and showing contemporary tapestries from around the world. Created by the American Tapestry Alliance.