Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance

SEFAA: Where Creativity Meets Community

The Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance (SEFAA) creates exceptional textile-focused learning opportunities, preserves timeless textile traditions, and nurtures a vibrant community where fiber artists of all abilities thrive. But vibrant communities like ours don't just happen, they are crafted, stitch by stitch, with passion, dedication, and generous support.

This giving season, we need your help to raise $10,000 to sustain and expand our 2025 programming, including:

• Inspiring Classes - Over 45 in-person and virtual offerings, from beginning quilting and fabric marbling to paper weaving and sewing with handmade fabric.
• Engaging Exhibitions - Five exhibitions at the SEFAA Center, plus Intertwined: Contemporary Southeastern Fiber Art, a juried exhibition celebrating our 16th anniversary.
• Free Open Studio Sessions - Eight hours each week where you can drop in (in-person or virtually) to create, connect, and share.

Your gift helps keep our classes, exhibitions, and events running, the SEFAA Center doors open, and our creative spirits nourished.

As our friend Ginny says, “SEFAA is my happy place - the courses inspire and challenge me, the exhibits are a feast for the eyes, and the people are welcoming, interesting, and feel like my tribe. “I support SEFAA with the largest gift I can. Each and every year. We owe it to ourselves and to our community to reach deep and give generously.”

Like Ginny, you can strengthen the fabric of our creative community. Like Ginny, you will make a difference.

Please give generously now!

Why SEFAA?

We make textile techniques accessible and shine a spotlight on the artistic and cultural significance of fiber arts. Creativity and community intersect at SEFAA: Our classes, exhibitions, and events bring together knitters and weavers, crafters and artists, creators and admirers. We foster meaningful connections across cultures and generations through the universal language of textiles and we do it one thread at a time. Paige, a high school teacher from New Orleans, recently participated in a SEFAA dyeing workshop led by renowned Nigerian-born artist Gasali Adeyemo. She learned traditional resist-dye techniques and explored Gasali’s Yoruba culture while connecting with fellow enthusiasts of West African textiles. Then she returned to her classroom to spread creativity and cultural understanding to the next generation. Paige said, "It is important to me as an art educator that I bring cultural histories that may not otherwise be presented in public school curriculum to my classroom."

Why Textiles?

Because they are woven into the fabric of lives, cultures, and histories: Whether woven, stitched, knit, or otherwise intertwined, textiles have adorned our bodies, sheltered us, told our stories, and carried our memories for millennia.  

Think of the Gee’s Bend quilts, born out of necessity and now celebrated globally as masterpieces of modern art. Think of the suffragettes, whose embroidered banners became powerful symbols in the fight for women’s right to vote. Think of woven tapestries that warmed ancient castles and continue to tell stories of times long past. Textiles have shaped our existence for over 20,000 years yet fiber art remains an overlooked and underfunded art form.

Please give and help our textile community thrive!