Textures in Conversation: Music, Craft, and the Fibre Arts
September 18-20, 2026
Are you a musician also obsessed with crafting? Stay tuned for more information about an event in the planning stages that will explore the intersections between these two art forms. Textures in Conversation: Music, Craft, and the Fibre Arts will be a three-day festival-symposium, planned for September 18-20, 2026. The event will feature music performances, art exhibitions and demonstrations; community crafting; an Indigenous arts event; and an academic symposium.
Two specific aspects of this intersection take centre stage: first, the overlapping aesthetic and technical elements that the two fields share and, second, the overlapping social spaces in which these artistic disciplines are realized. One planned event, for example, involves a three-day collaborative performance by an electronic music composer and a bobbin lace maker.
The event is organized by Prof. Emily Abrams Ansari along with alumna Kristen Wallentinsen and other Western researchers in Music and Visual Arts.
Contact
Emily Abrams Ansari
Associate Professor, Music Research and Composition Department
Don Wright Faculty of Music
(519) 661-2111 x85387
emily.ansari@uwo.ca
