Program areas at Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance Incorporated
Education includes (1) monthly program meetings on a wide variety of textile topics from Creating Sustainably to Living Textiles and Made-Up Creatures: Experimentations in Weaving, (2) classes, including Silk Dye Painting, Felt Fabulous Flowers, and Macrame Your Walls Away, and (3) one- to three-day workshops, including Game of Improv, Spinning Art Yarn: From Corespun to Tailspun, Eco Print on Lambskin Leather Naturally and in Color, Traditional Yoruba Indigo Resist Dyeing Techniques, Woodsy Vessels, and Intro to Marbling.
Our SEFAA Center Shop is regularly open Tuesdays from 10-2 and Wednesdays through Saturdays from 10-4. The Shop sells donated textile supplies, books, and equipment along with consignment fiber art.
SEFAA held five exhibitions at the SEFAA Center in 2023 - From the Beginning Until Now - Two Decades of Quilts (Maria Shell), Reflections: Shibori Color Stories (Angie Knowles), our annual Square Foot Fiber Art Pin Up Show, African Blues (Gasali Adeyemo), and our inaugural SEFAA Members' Exhibit.
The SEFAA Center library contains over 4,500 textile-related books, magazines, and videos that are available to everyone visiting the Center. Individual SEFAA members have library lending privileges.
SEFAA Center rentals include multi-purpose space rentals, wet studio rentals, and one artist's studio rental. Individuals and organizations rent the large multi-purpose space at low rates for textile-related meetings, classes, and workshops They rent our unique, public wet studio for dyeing, felting, surface design, and other wet textile processes. Our artist studio is leased annually and includes a private entrance, a sink, internet and utilities, and round-the-clock access.
SEFAA events include bi-weekly open-studio sessions (Lunchtime Fiber), monthly Book Club and Stitching Time gatherings, our annual Fiber Flea Market, several one-time sales of donated textile supplies, exhibition receptions, a New Member Show & Tell Party, two dyeing days for Chamblee High School art students, and the creation and dedication of the Chamblee Pollinator Bridge Project.