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The article announces the winners of Surface Design Association's (SDA's) Outstanding Student Awards including Amy Beeler, Eli Bjedov-Stankovic, and Marina G. Cano.

The author talks about 2024 International Exhibition in Print organized by the Surface Design Association which celebrates artists who embrace the unexpected, highlighting how navigating positive and negative changes can lead to personal and creative growth. Topics include the vulnerability of motherhood while finding solace in the meditative practice of adding layers of multiple stitches by Liz Hamilton Quay and fiber installations which explore grief, healing and resilience by Holly Wong.

The article announces the recipients of Surface Design Association (SDA) grants and awards which include the Personal Development Grant to artist Noelle Sharp, the Educator Grant to art teacher Jane Ingram Allen, and the Creative Promise Award to artist Michelle Knappe.

The article announces the presentation of the 2023 Surface Design Association (SDA) Material Exploration Award to the 2021 textile artwork "Year of Plastic, Family of Four," by artist Kalliopi Monoyios.

The article announces the presentation of the 2023 Surface Design Association (SDA) Art as Fashion/Fashion as Art Award to the 2023 textile artwork "Exoskin," by artists Ja-Young Hwang and Kim Hahn.

The article announces the presentation of the 2023 Surface Design Association (SDA) Guest Juror Award to the 2023 textile artwork "What We Brought From Home: Blood, Sweat and Tears, Indigo and Okra," by American artist Diana Baird N'Diaye.

The article announces the presentation of the 2023 Surface Design Association (SDA) Modern Meets Traditional Award to the 2022 textile artwork "In Between," by American artist Juli Smith.

The article announces the presentation of the 2023 Surface Design Association (SDA) Innovation in Technique Award to the 2022 textile artwork "Peeking Through," by American artist Brenda J. Bunten-Schloesser.

The article features recipients of the 2022 Surface Design Association (SDA) Art as Fashion/Fashion as Art Award which include artists Ivy Anderson, Nicole Havekost, and Jooyoung Shin.

The article features recipients of the 2022 Surface Design Association (SDA) Guest Juror Award which include artists Joyce Watkins King, Erica Spitzer Rasmussen, Ruth Buffington, and Jim Bremer.

The article features recipients of the 2022 Surface Design Association (SDA) Modern Meets Traditional Award which include artists Leisa Rich and Rima Day.

The article features recipients of the 2022 Surface Design Association (SDA) Unconventional Materials Award which include artists Peter T McCarthy, Louise Saxton, Colleen Muscha, and Louise Perrone.

The article features recipients of the 2022 Surface Design Association (SDA) Surface Design Award which include artists Theo Trotter, Della Reams, Larry Rushing, and Theda Sandiford.

The article features recipients of the 2022 Surface Design Association (SDA) Innovation in Technique Award which include artists Heather Ujiie, George-Ann Bowers, Anna Vescovi, and Judy Bales.

The article features recipients of the 2022 Surface Design Association (SDA) Current Statement Award which include artists Dong Kyu Kim, Maya Rose Weiss, and Brigitte Amarger.

The article features recipients of the 2022 Surface Design Association (SDA) Outstanding Student Awards which include artists Laurel Rennie of Concordia University, Katy Rodden Walker of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Simone White of Cornell University.

The article announces several grant and award winners selected by the Surface Design Association including Rena Wood, Cicelia Ross-Gotta, and Anie Toole.

An interview with Jenna Freimuth and Mindy Sue Wittock, the duo who comprise a collaborative embroidery called The Wondermakers Collective, is presented. They explain the origin of the idea of mailing embroideries back and forth since 2015. They also discuss their process and inspirations, as well as the factors that they consider when embellishing a newly received embroidery.

The article announces the presentation of the 2023 Surface Design Association (SDA) Unconventional Materials Award to the 2021 textile artwork "Fourteen Brushes," by American artist Peggy Wiedemann.

The author discusses her installation art works titled "More Than A Sum of Her Parts" and "21st Century Altar" which use quilt motifs from New England. She cites the activity of engaging with the past and the present as one when creating a textile. She also describes the act of quilting as a dedication to labor and a commitment to time.

The author discusses several art works that examine the visual legacy of his family's former textile printing business, Carl Breuer and Sons, founded in Bohemia in 1897. He talks about how he created them by screen printing powdered glass frit onto flat sheets of glass, the features of his "Bohemian Showroom" installation, and the transformation of tablecloth and dish-towel designs into glass sculptures and domestic textiles.

The author discusses his art work which is a series of whole-cloth, hand-dyed and stitched quilts that explores the nexus of craft and magic. He cites his preference for the message and exploration of experience over the medium. He also describes his stitching patterns which draw from a mix of sacred geometry runes, mandalas and invented magical sigils.

The article provides information on Pixeladies, a collaboration by Deb Cashatt and Kris Sazaki. Topics covered include the reasons why they decided to collaborate, their decision to depict themes of racial and social injustice in their work, and the factors they consider when designing together and the reason behind the intricate process that they use.

The author describes her textile-based art and artistic style which engage with motifs or mortality, mourning culture and object memory. She cites the incorporation of humor, cultural signposts and various media aimed at allowing audience accessibility and dialog about mortality. She also provides information on her surface designs titled "The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook" and "Lutheran Church Cookbook."

The author describes her textile-based art and artistic style which are based on her pictorial histories, gender politics, and ritualistic traditions from her Turkish upbringing. She claims that her textile craft was mainly influenced by Middle Eastern fiber craft which employs visuals derived from Islamic mythology. She also discusses the process involved in the creation of her series "Untitled Family."

The article describes the work of several textile-based artists and several award winners. They include Hale Ekinci who has strong ties to her Turkish heritage, Sarah Meyers Brent whose mixed media work uses space to bring her concepts to life, and Julie Gray who perfectly cross-stitched on tea-dyed fabric.

The author describes her textile-based art and artistic style which are inspired by modern design. She provides a background of her fascination with textiles due to the colors and textures of the yarn, thread, and fabric. She also discloses the role of her health problems in her decision to move into fiber art.

The author describes her textile-based art and artistic style which challenge female sentiments of docility by using found and forgotten materials, needlework templates, and a disregard for the guidelines. She claims that her art explores the concept of hysteria of women which was acknowledge in Freudian theory and stories. Her work also finds inspiration from an organic appearance which imitates the origins of motherhood and womanliness.

The author describes her textile-based art and artistic style which involve the creation of intensely textured and airy collages using burned, quilted, and embroidered photographs. She incorporates several themes that include exposure, absence, and memory and her series for "Family Matters" was aimed at celebrating and questioning familial values.

The author describes her textile-based art and artistic style which are based on motherhood and life in general. She cites materials that she uses in her art including old children's clothes, paint globs, rags, and gloves. She explains the process involved in the creation of her work "Beautiful Mess" in which she installed wood and drywall to cover over the end of a gallery wall at Kingston Gallery.

The article offers information on the patterns that surround people in their lives. Topics discussed include the Fibonacci Sequence of numbers which are a part of the geometry of nature, the shapes of tessellations in geometry, and the creation of patterns by surface designers when they create textile designs, quilts and weaving. Also mentioned is William Morris, a key figure in the history of surface design.

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses the annual International Exhibition in Print (EIP) of the Surface Design Association (SDA) and the contribution of artist Lorna Hamilton-Brown to the 2023 EIP.

The article focuses on the Contemporary Geometric Beadwork (CGB) project, which has discovered new structures and surface design that can be built with beads and fiber. Topics discussed include new kinds of rotating engineering linkages, such as the Kaleidocycle, new types of fabrics, including foldable topological Eggboxes, and beaded polygons and spirals that can shapeshift and hold an electric charge.

An introduction to the journal is presented which discusses art and fashion entries to the 2022 Surface Design Association (SDA) International Exhibition in Print.

This article features Anglo-Australian artist Marianne Penberthy. It discusses her search of her own sense of belonging, a grant she received from the Western Australian Department of Culture and Arts and her series of art installations entitled "Flour on the Ground". Artworks included in this series are "Dust on the Verandah," "Hearth" and "Stitching a Path".

The author describes her textile-based art and artistic style which are based on her personal history and her obsession with textiles. She claims that her "Cross-Pollination" series integrates two types of fiber that intermingle and growth together, including hand-felted wool and industrial machine buffers. She also cites the role played by her family heritage in "Cross-Pollination."

The article reviews the exhibition "New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America" at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York in early 2015.

The article reviews the exhibition "Toward Textiles" at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) in Sheboygan, Wisconsin as of July 2015.

The article features artist Karen Hampton and her efforts to use her art to tell her story as of July 2015. Hampton uses cloth, which are digitally printed, hand woven, and aged linen, as her art medium. Also cited are Hampton's topics like slavery and the abolition, as well as incoming exhibition "The Journey North" at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College in New York.

The article examines the history of the Finnish textile and design company Marimekko. Particular focus is given to Marimekko's founder, Armi Ratia. Additional topics discussed include Marimekko's contributions to fashion in the 1960, Marimekko's contributions to surface design and Marimekko's flagship store in Helsinki, Finland.

The article examines trends in wallpaper taking place in the early twenty-first century. Particular focus is given to the surface designs created by designers including Tracy Kendall, Stephen Bauer and Vincent J. Ficarra. The San Francisco, California-based firm Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers is also discussed.

The article examines trends in chair design as of October 2012. Particular focus is given to works by designers that are utilizing creative textiles and surfaces including "Crochet Chair," by Marcel Wanders, "Loop Chaise Lounge," by Sophie de Vocht and "Bloom Easy Armchair," by Kenneth Cobonpue. The 2011 Salon di Mobile (Furniture Exhibition) in Milan, Italy, is also noted.

An excerpt from a keynote address given by the fiber artist Pat Hickman at the Surface Design Association's conference, titled "Confluence: Beyond Surface," in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 9, 2011 is presented.

The article announces three students who demonstrated excellence in fiber arts and won the journal's Outstanding Student Award, including Caroline Gerberick, Simone Saunders, and Amanda Whitaker.

An interview with surface design artists Elizabeth Kozlowski and Lauren Sinner is presented. Kozlowski discloses her most marked characteristic, her dream of happiness, and her favorite color, while Sinner cites her main source of inspiration, her favorite curse word, and the type of noise that she hates.

The author discusses her installation art works including "There But Not There," "Veils of Logic," and "As I Sit I Knit." She cites her tendency as an installation artist to dig into the emotional core of what it means to be human. She also mentions the relationship between ambiguous loss and the current Covid-19 pandemic.

The author discusses her textile art work titled "(For the Trans Dykes Who Were Able to Feel Free and Fall in Love) Still From the TV Show Euphoria" featuring hand-embroidered sequins, imitation silk, and thread. She cites her use of the physical and time-intensive labor of fiber processes as a redemptive act. She also discloses that she sourced a still from the television show "Euphoria."