AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS

Upcoming
Valoma, Deborah. "Thread Memory." In Here and Now. Istanbul, Turkey: Hrant Dink Foundation.

2024
Valoma, Deborah. "Janyak: Armenian Art of Knots and Loops: curated by Gassia Armenian, Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles, April 23, 2023–February 25, 2024." Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture: 22 (5): 757–761.
LINK TO EXHIBITION REVIEW

2023
Miskci, Rehan, and Deborah Valoma. "Following an Anonymous Thread." Armenian Creatives / Collaborations, Vol. 2.

2022
Valoma, Deborah. "Alluring Monotony + Luminous Grids." Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture 20 (4): 489-505. Special issue "Weaving Beyond the Binary," edited by John Paul Morabito.
LINK TO ESSAY

2021
Valoma, Deborah. "When Linen Remembers." Material Intelligence, edited by Glenn Adamson.
ONLINE ESSAY

2016
Valoma, Deborah. “Complex Simplicity.” In Kay Sekimachi: Simple Complexity/Works from the Forrest L. Merrill Collection. Forward by Suzanne Isken, Executive Director, Craft and Folk Art Museum, photographs by M. Lee Fatherree. Los Angeles, CA: The Craft and Folk Art Museum.
DOWNLOAD ESSAY

2013
Valoma, Deborah. Scrape the Willow Until It Sings: The Words and Work of Basket Maker Julia Parker. Photographs by M. Lee Fatherree. Berkeley, CA: Heyday. Winner of the 2014 Gold Medal for Contributions to Publishing, Commonwealth Club of California’s California Book Awards.

2013
Valoma, Deborah. “Weaving with Julia Parker: An Excerpt from Scrape the Willow Until It Sings.” News from Native California 27 (1): 32­–­33.

2011
Valoma, Deborah. “Dust Chronicles.” Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture 8 (3): 260–269.
LINK TO ESSAY

2010
Valoma, Deborah. “Cloth and African Identity in Bahia, Brazil.” The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, edited by Joanne B. Eicher. Oxford: Berg Fashion Library. Volume 2: Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Margot Blum Schevill, 413-420.

2007
Valoma, Deborah. Lia Cook: In the Folds, Work from 1973­–1997. Wilton, CT: Brown/Grotta Arts. 

2005
Valoma, Deborah. “The Impermanent Made Permanent: Textiles, Pattern and the Migration of a Medium.” Fiberarts 32 (3): 44–49.

2004
Valoma, Deborah. “Past in Present Tense: Four Decades of Baskets by Julia Parker.” News from Native California 18 (1): 4–6.

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AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS

Upcoming
Valoma, Deborah. "Thread Memory." In Here and Now. Istanbul, Turkey: Hrant Dink Foundation.

2024
Valoma, Deborah. "Janyak: Armenian Art of Knots and Loops: curated by Gassia Armenian, Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles, April 23, 2023–February 25, 2024." Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture: 22 (5): 757–761.
LINK TO EXHIBITION REVIEW

2023
Miskci, Rehan, and Deborah Valoma. "Following an Anonymous Thread." Armenian Creatives / Collaborations, Vol. 2.

2022
Valoma, Deborah. "Alluring Monotony + Luminous Grids." Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture 20 (4): 489-505. Special issue "Weaving Beyond the Binary," edited by John Paul Morabito.
LINK TO ESSAY

2021
Valoma, Deborah. "When Linen Remembers." Material Intelligence, edited by Glenn Adamson.
ONLINE ESSAY

2016
Valoma, Deborah. “Complex Simplicity.” In Kay Sekimachi: Simple Complexity/Works from the Forrest L. Merrill Collection. Forward by Suzanne Isken, Executive Director, Craft and Folk Art Museum, photographs by M. Lee Fatherree. Los Angeles, CA: The Craft and Folk Art Museum.
DOWNLOAD ESSAY

2013
Valoma, Deborah. Scrape the Willow Until It Sings: The Words and Work of Basket Maker Julia Parker. Photographs by M. Lee Fatherree. Berkeley, CA: Heyday. Winner of the 2014 Gold Medal for Contributions to Publishing, Commonwealth Club of California’s California Book Awards.

2013
Valoma, Deborah. “Weaving with Julia Parker: An Excerpt from Scrape the Willow Until It Sings.” News from Native California 27 (1): 32­–­33.

2011
Valoma, Deborah. “Dust Chronicles.” Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture 8 (3): 260–269.
LINK TO ESSAY

2010
Valoma, Deborah. “Cloth and African Identity in Bahia, Brazil.” The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, edited by Joanne B. Eicher. Oxford: Berg Fashion Library. Volume 2: Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Margot Blum Schevill, 413-420.

2007
Valoma, Deborah. Lia Cook: In the Folds, Work from 1973­–1997. Wilton, CT: Brown/Grotta Arts. 

2005
Valoma, Deborah. “The Impermanent Made Permanent: Textiles, Pattern and the Migration of a Medium.” Fiberarts 32 (3): 44–49.

2004
Valoma, Deborah. “Past in Present Tense: Four Decades of Baskets by Julia Parker.” News from Native California 18 (1): 4–6.

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