Spun Gold Awards
Since 1999, Textile Center has honored artists and advocates for their lifetime dedication to fiber art through the Spun Gold Awards.
Make your nomination for our 2026 Spun Gold Awards!
We want you hear from you! Who champions fiber art in our Textile Center community and beyond and deserves recognition for their incredible contributions?
Nominations are open through Sunday, October 18.
Save the Date:
2026 Spun Gold Awards Luncheon
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 12 – 1:30 pm
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)