SEFAA encourages and celebrates creativity one thread at a time by cultivating a vibrant regional fiber arts community while celebrating, supporting, and perpetuating all textile art forms.
We exist to be your textile resource.
We thrive by empowering you to reach your creative potential.
OUR PROGRAMS
Courses · Tours · Meetings · Events · Exhibitions ·
Open Studios · Rentals
Develop skills, be inspired, create, connect, and belong.
OUR COMMUNITY
Your latest creation, a work in progress, a favorite class moment, something that inspires you or ...
OUR TEAM
Dedicated volunteers at your service!
OUR HISTORY
2009
April First meeting of organizations and individuals interested in developing a fiber arts center in Atlanta.
July SEFAA registers as a Georgia Non Profit Corporation.
August SEFAA registers as a Georgia Charitable Organization.
October Initial Board members appointed, bylaws adopted.
2020
January Started monthly Monday Make Night sessions.
February Pet Bed Sewing Bee with Atlanta Sewing Guild.
March Closed SEFAA Center due to COVID-19 pandemic.
April New website online.
May First online class offered.
June Intertwined 2020 exhibition opens.
July Pandemic Banner Project launched.
August First Pop Up Shop.
December Received $25,000 grant from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.
2019
February Start of Blanket Love Project, an ongoing charitable project making textiles for
people and pets in need.
July Small Expressions 2019 exhibition (SEFAA Center).
September New website fundraiser.
December Created SEFAA Designer’s Club monthly givers community.
2018
February ICONIC: Tapestries by Molly Elkind exhibition (SEFAA Center)
April Peace by Piece exhibition (with Atlanta Collage Society, ART Station).
June Free Indigo Dye Day.
October Atlanta premier of The Shepherdess of the Glaciers documentary (Landmark
Midtown Art Cinema); Spotlight on Student Fiber Trends (The Fine Arts Center).
November First Yarn & Book Sale.
2017
January First Book Club meeting.
June Leased addition 500 sq. ft., adding second studio and storeroom.
September Wet Studio Shower to equip new dye kitchen; new library shelving donated.
October First Member Organization gathering.
December Interior lights upgraded to LED.
2016
March Logo redesigned.
April Grand Opening & Housewarming.
May Spotlight on Student Fiber Trends exhibition (Murray State University).
October Cloth Roads Trunk Show.
2015
January Intertwined: Contemporary Southeastern Fiber Art exhibition (Hudgens Center
for the Arts)
April SEFAA hosts Fiber Forum conference (Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts)
June Continuous Threads: 200 Years of Georgia Textiles exhibition (Gwinnett
Environmental and Heritage Center).
December Hard Hat Tour of the new SEFAA Center.
2014
January Launched free monthly programs for members.
June Spotlight on Student Fiber Trends exhibition (University of Georgia)
October Tour of Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair (Museum of Design
Atlanta)
December Ended the year with 182 individual members and 10 organization members.
2013
January Launched free quarterly programs for members.
May FiberARTlanta exhibition (Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta).
July First Open House.
October Entered Scarecrows in the Garden exhibition at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
2012
January Launched free bi-weekly Open Studio sessions.
March First Square Foot Fiber Art Pin Up Show exhibition (SEFAA Center).
June First Spotlight on Student Fiber Trends exhibition (East Carolina University).
November Participated in the first Georgia Gives Day giving event.
2011
January Instituted online course registration.
May First annual Fiber Garage Sale.
September SEFAA Center opens.
November First Fiber Art Sale.
2010
January 501(c)(3) received (retroactive to July 17, 2009).
April Website established.
July First class, In Living Color taught by Rebecca Ewing; first monthly newsletter
published.
November through December Worked with Social Ventures Grant team to develop 3-year business plan.
2009
April First meeting of organizations and individuals interested in developing a fiber arts center in Atlanta.
July SEFAA registers as a Georgia Non Profit Corporation.
August SEFAA registers as a Georgia Charitable Organization.
October Initial Board members appointed, bylaws adopted.
2020
January Started monthly Monday Make Night sessions.
February Pet Bed Sewing Bee with Atlanta Sewing Guild.
March Closed SEFAA Center due to COVID-19 pandemic.
April New website online.
May First online class offered.
June Intertwined 2020 exhibition opens.
July Pandemic Banner Project launched.
August First Pop Up Shop.
December Received $25,000 grant from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.
