Jefferson Library, Greenwich Village

• Professional Issues [pdf 344k]
  Professionalism [pdf 20k]
  String, Felt, Thread by Elissa Auther (book review)[pdf 187k]
  Fiber Art Education:  The Missing Half [pdf 55k]
  Handspun's Important Value in Fiber Art [pdf 206k]
  These articles, published by Tapestry Topics, the newsletter of the American Tapestry Alliance, explore professional issues in the fiber art field.
• Where is the Voice of Fiber Art Today? [pdf 64k]
  The Voice of Our Advocates? [pdf 79k]
  Our Unofficial Voices [pdf 81k]
  Voices for Our Future [pdf 153k]
  This four-part essay series, published by Fibre Focus, the magazine of the Ontario Handweavers & Spinners, asks some of the most important questions in the field of contemporary art and craft.
• The Weaving Arts:  An Ancient Technology  [pdf 174k]
  Exhibition catalogue essay on Bulbach's art at the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Matisse, His Art and His Textiles:  The Fabric of His Dreams (book review)  [pdf 63k]
  A review in Fiberarts Magazine of the official catalogue for the exhibition of Matisse's textile collection focused on their strong influence on his work.
• Mesopotamia and Hippopotamus  [pdf 109k]
  Bulbach's musings on his earlier doctoral thesis and the importance of our culture's ancient Near Eastern roots to our lives and art today.
• 3rd Sephardic Cemetery  [pdf 696k]
  The creation of a prayer carpet about contemporary New York City.
• Gotham:  The Design Process  [pdf 331k]
  The creation of a flying carpet about contemporary New York City.
• A Debt to the Future Comes Due  [pdf 45k]
  Why research problems are a problem for the future of fiber art.
• The Importance of Wool  [pdf 553k]
  The historic value of select wools used in the classic oriental rug arts.
• A Failure in Accuracy and Reliability:  Art Museum Research on Contemporary American Craft  [pdf 85k]
  Grave procedural flaws in the creation of a curatorial record of the public's artistic heritage.
• What?  Colored Wools!  Why?  [pdf 55k]
  Based upon the artist's keynote address at the 1987 World Congress of Coloured Wools.
• Re:  The Museum's New Clothes  [pdf 29k]
  Letter regarding an editorial in The Textile Forum.
• Protests Against MAD Renovation  [pdf 100k]
  Report in Fiberarts Magazine on controversial changes to the American Craft Museum.

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