December 6, 2023 at 7:00 PM

Brenda Osborn will celebrate her golden jubilee of weaving in 2025 and has been weaving tapestry for 25 years. She studied tapestry for more than a decade with Archie Brennan, Susan Martin Maffei, and Korean artist Soosoonam Barg, and continues studies through workshops including Connie Lippert and Molly Elkind. Brenda was a member of the now-disbanded Wednesday Group of tapestry weavers for twelve years. She has exhibited work in HGA's Convergence juried exhibit, numerous NEWS juried exhibits, and at the American Tapestry Alliance's Biennial juried exhibit. She has participated in exhibitions in Northern Europe and has won awards from the Handweavers' Guild of America, New England Weavers' Seminar, and the Mid-Atlantic Fiber Association. She was a recent interviewee on HGA's "Textiles and Tea" (April 18, 2023), and recently published a book with Archie Brennan, chronicling his life in tapestry, Archie Brennan: Tapestry as Modern Art, published by Schiffer Publishing.

Brenda has taught weaving and given programs to guilds in the New York/New Jersey area and southern New England, and she has taught ongoing classes at local craft schools in Connecticut, which include Hartford Artisans' Weaving Center and the weaving program at Wesleyan Potters. She has maintained a blog about fibers arts for more than a decade (www.argoknot.com). She is as passionate about teaching as she is about creating woven cloth.