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Abstract
The 2018 Textile Society of America (TSA) symposium, “Social Fabric: From Deep Local to Pan Global,” was a marked contrast from the previous symposium, with a more robust focus on indigenous and aboriginal textiles. Held in Canada’s progressive Vancouver, British Columbia, the planned scope and inclusivity of symposium events included notable First Nations speakers, site visits, art exhibitions, and plenary sessions which interrogated colonial histories and helped steer away the ethnographic gaze prevalent in the academic textile field. Noteworthy events included a fashion show presented by Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week, the exhibition Arts of Resistance: Politics and the Past in Latin America at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology, the keynote speech by Tlingit weaver Meghann/Jaad O’Brien, and the Intertwined exhibition of textile artwork by faculty, staff and students of Emily Carr University.
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Aaron Lee McIntosh
Aaron Lee McIntosh is a cross-disciplinary artist who works in textiles, sculpture, drawing, collage, and photography. His work has been exhibited nationally, internationally, and more recently in the traveling exhibition and book project Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community. His critical writing and reviews have appeared in HyperAllergic, the Journal of Modern Craft and the Surface Design Journal. He lives and works in Richmond, Virginia, where he is a Fiber professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. [email protected]