Textile Center
Community / Non-Profit
Phone
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Textile Center is unique as America’s national center for fiber art, with a mission to honor textile traditions, promote excellence and innovation, nurture appreciation, and inspire widespread participation in fiber arts.
The Center’s resources include exceptional fiber art exhibitions, an artisan shop, the region’s only accessible professional-grade dye lab, a natural dye plant garden, and one of the nation’s largest circulating textile libraries open to the public. Textile Center produces more than 200 classes a year for all ages and skill levels through its youth, adult, older adult, and outreach programs.
A dynamic hub of fiber activity for 30 years, Textile Center brings people together in community to learn, create, share, and be inspired by fiber art. For more information, visit: textilecentermn.org.
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Events & Classes
Class/Workshop
Get Started: Embroidery
Wondering if embroidery is right for you? Learned a few stitches but hungry for more? Join this introductory two-hour workshop to get started on creating a simple project!
Tue Apr 22
6:00pm - 8:00pm
6:00pm - 8:00pm
At Textile Center
$42
Class/Workshop
SAORI Weaving Workshop
Try your hand at SAORI weaving, a contemporary hand weaving style founded in Japan, which promotes a philosophy of free expression and exemplifies the differences between hand and machine weaving. This Zen, therapeutic method of free-style weaving without any rules or restrictions of what or how to weave can temporarily remove you from the stress of daily life.
Wed Apr 23
10:00am - 1:00pm
10:00am - 1:00pm
Wed Apr 23
2:00pm - 5:00pm
2:00pm - 5:00pm
At Textile Center
$69 half day / $131 full day
Class/Workshop
SAORI Weaving Workshop
Try your hand at SAORI weaving, a contemporary hand weaving style founded in Japan, which promotes a philosophy of free expression and exemplifies the differences between hand and machine weaving. This Zen, therapeutic method of free-style weaving without any rules or restrictions of what or how to weave can temporarily remove you from the stress of daily life.
Wed Apr 23
10:00am - 1:00pm
10:00am - 1:00pm
Wed Apr 23
2:00pm - 5:00pm
2:00pm - 5:00pm
At Textile Center
$69 half day / $131 full day
Class/Workshop
Art Speaks: A History of African American Quilting with Tracy Vaughn-Manley (online)
Join us for a special virtual Art Speaks conversation! In many cultures, quilts have not only been produced and used as utilitarian objects, but also as tactile repositories of history. They serve as tangible historical markers of a specific generation or rite-of-passage as well as textile narratives—telling the stories of a particular group, region, and/or culture through fabric and design.
Fri Apr 25
12:00pm - 1:00pm
12:00pm - 1:00pm
At Textile Center
Sliding scale: Free, $15, $30
Exhibition
Artist Reception + Art Speaks: Carolyn L. Mazloomi, Stitching Black Legacy
Stitching Black Legacy is the largest solo exhibition of Dr. Mazloomi's work under one roof. Founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network and a celebrated fiber artist in her own right, Dr. Mazloomi will discuss this recent body of creative work which features an impressive series of large-scale art quilts reflecting the lives of Black civil rights activists, leaders, and revolutionaries who shaped American history.
Fri May 16
5:30pm - 8:00pm
5:30pm - 8:00pm
At Textile Center
Free!
