Produced for the Tampa Bay Surface Design Guild, featuring the designs of guild members at the Leepa-Ratner Museum of Art in July 2024. Video production - Elizabeth Neily. Still photography - Rocky Wells.
The purpose of the Guild is to increase community awareness of surface design and its value in our lives. As a group, we exchange information on such creative processes as dyeing, painting, printing, stitching, embellishing, quilting, weaving, knitting, felting, beading, basket making, polymer clay, crochet, and papermaking. We also offer educational and experimental venues, thus supporting individual artistic creativity, while promoting an attitude of mutual respect and exchange in all areas surface design.