Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts

[1] Founded in 1973 by Hungarian-born artist Gyöngy Laky, Fiberworks included a wide range of contemporary and experimental approaches based in the textile arts medium.

Many of the school's faculty, lecturers, exhibitors and students were, or would go on to become, influential leaders in the arts including Louise Allrich, Joanne Segal Brandford, Lia Cook, Mildred Howard, David Ireland, Gyöngy Laky, Jack Lenor Larsen, Nance O’Banion and Morgan O’Hara, Ed Rossbach, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, and Katherine Westphal, to mention only a few.

The international impact of the Center became evident when it hosted the Symposium on Contemporary Textile Art, 1978, which attracted notable presenters, faculty, lecturers and participants from around the world.

From Tapestry to Fiber Art,[2] published 2017, recognized this Symposium as one of the two important conferences of the decade.

[3] Magdalena Abakanowicz[4] and Sheila Hicks,[5] internationally renowned artists, were keynote speakers.