Sustainability Lecture: The Eco-nomics of Fiber Arts with Gigi Matthews

It’s time to change the way we make and appreciate textiles! For almost all of human history, cloth was created from plant and animal fibers. Over the past 75 years, the textile industry has undergone extraordinary changes and the vast majority of clothing and fabrics are now made with oil and toxic chemicals.  

Find out why we need to move urgently toward sustainable textile practices, what kinds of amazing new fibers are coming down the pipeline, and how you can incorporate sustainability into your fiber arts work and life. Our lecturer, Gigi Matthews, will be supporting this conversation with anecdotes from her family history, her travels over the past 30 years, and her creative journey as a fiber artist.