Saturday Aug 15, 2026
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM CDT
Saturday, August 15, 2026 8:00 PM
The Sheraton New Orleans Hotel 500 Canal St. New Orleans, LA 70130
$49.00
Handweavers Guild of America
678-730-0010
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Join the Handweavers Guild of America for a Keynote Lecture Presentation, Ghosts and Ancestors: Why I Weave, by Karen Hampton. Karen Hampton, MFA, Artist Weaver, and 2022 American Craft Council Fellow, is recognized as a trailblazing artist in the textile community for her work broadening the visibility of textiles made by black and brown artists worldwide. Karen has made the invisible visible for most of her career. From her early work in the 1990s to the present, she has been telling personal stories with her artwork and promoting others in the field.