Making fabrics on a variety of looms. Students learn to design and weave beautiful and practical textiles with looms from many traditions.  Possibilities include European floor looms, South American backstrap looms, cross-cultural tablets, Japanese kumihimo, primitive mat-looms, and others.

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The Civic Role of Higher Education

As featured on HuffPost. Throughout American history, colleges and universities have provided leadership on the social and political issues of the day. One criterion of the health of our democracy…

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Trading a Scholarship for Environmental Stewardship

Incoming Sterling College student Hannah Rousey never expected to be a media sensation. “I wasn’t even sure my local newspaper would publish an article about [me],” she confessed recently in…

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Into the High Country

On the last day of August eight students and two instructors converged at the baggage claim area in the Reno-Tahoe airport.  We were about to begin the trip of a…

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