Dear SDA Community:

I would like to introduce myself as the SDA interim Executive Director (following the resignation of Stacey Stern) and share with you some of my plans for the organization as we look to the future.

SDA, Studio Art Quilt Associates and the Textile Department at San Francisco State University combined energies to create REINVENTION, a regional conference that took place in mid-March. Revisit or–if you could not attend–sample some selected high points from this multi-faceted event that was packed with ideas and inspiration.

Kickstarter is a web-based fundraising site that is, according to their tagline, “A New Way to Fund and Follow Creativity.” Find out how Owyn Ruck of the Textile Arts Center of Brooklyn created a successful campaign to support grant writing expenses that will jumpstart this new resource for textile arts education.

Hoarding is having a cultural moment on TV with TLC’s “Hoarding: Buried Alive” and via several recently published books–both fiction and non. Jay Rich unpacks the syndrome and offers some solutions for beating back the scourge of stuff.

If you’d like to sharpen your skills for navigating the world of the Web 2.0–or understand what that term actually means–read this overview. Then learn about using RSS feeds to streamline the experience and customize access to your favorite blogs and news sources.

Having work published in a chapbook offers an individual artist exposure and connection to a genre that transcends media boundaries. Dan Waber’s goal is to “to publish the largest catalog of visual poetry in print” with his series of “this is visual poetry” chapbooks.