Spun Gold Awards
Since 1999, Textile Center has honored artists and advocates for their lifetime dedication to fiber art through the Spun Gold Awards.
Save the Date:
2026 Spun Gold Awards Luncheon
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 12 – 1:30 pm
Spun Gold Award Winners will be announced soon!
Past Spun Gold Winners:
1999
Paul O’Connor – Weaver
Ellen Wells – Textile Art International Gallery Owner
Elsa Sreenivasam – Artist & Teacher
Margot Siegel – Fashion Reporter
2000
Helen Kelly – Quilter
LaVern Bell – Sewer & Teacher
Homa Amir-Fazli – Teacher
2001
Charlene Burningham – Beader, Weaver, Quilter & Teacher
2002
Gladys Raschka – Quilter
2003
Lila Nelson – Weaver
2004
Walter Nottingham – Teacher
Ruth Waukazo – Beader & Teacher
2005
Gini Corrick – Surface Design & Clothing Design
2006
LaVonne Horner – Quilter
Marliss Jensen – Master Dyer & Surface Design
Lotus Stack – MIA Textile Curator
Nancy MacKenzie – Artwear & 3D Sculpture
2007
Anna Smits – Weaver & Teacher
Wilma Gary – Quilter
Thelma Buckner – Quilter
2008
Donna Pauley – Needleworker
Joan Skalbeck – Dyer
Karen Searle – Knitter, Teacher & Publisher
2009
Norma Kenny – Quilter
Mary Temple – Weaver & Teacher
2010
Marj Ford Sethna – Weaver
2011
Susan Stein – Quilter
Diane Fitzgerald – Beader
2012
Paula Pfaff – Weaver
Margaret Miller – Weaver & Founding Textile Center Executive Director
2013
Becka Rahn – Surface Design & Teacher
2020
Carolyn Halliday – Knitter, Teacher, and founding member of Textile Center’s National Artist Advisory Council
Nancy Mambi – Textile Center Librarian
Mary Skoy – Weaver & Teacher
Ginny Smith – Owner of Ginny’s Fine Fabrics
2021
Carolyn L. Mazloomi – Historian, curator, author, lecturer, quilter, mentor, founder of Women of Color Quilters Network, and founding member of Textile Center’s National Artist Advisory Council
2024
Rose Allen – Quilter, Teaching Artist, and former Minnesota Quilters president
Jody Slocum & Mary Anne Wise – Founders, Cultural Cloth (Maiden Rock, WI) and Multicolores (Guatemala)
2025
Mary Mortenson – Textile Center Shop Shop Artist, Dyer, 2021 Jerome Project Grant for Emerging Fiber Artists grant recipient
Linda McShannock – Past Textile Center president, former Board Member, and former museum collections curator and textiles specialist at MHS (25 years)