Textile Center – A National Center for Fiber Art

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Honoring textile traditions, promoting excellence and innovation, nurturing appreciation,
and inspiring widespread participation in fiber art.

Textile Center is open Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 4 pm

Minneapolis is at the GREEN (low) community level. At this time:

Masks are optional, but encouraged Textile Center.

(We are monitoring CDC data and our masking policy is subject to change)

Upcoming Classes

View the full class lineup online here

Saturday, May 27, 10 am – 1 pm
Katie DeCosse
Traditional rug hooking involves pulling a thin strip of wool fabric or yarn up through a background fabric, generally a monk's cloth or burlap-type fabric. Join us for this beginning level class to learn the basics of the process and of working with wool, while creating a 4

Intro to Traditional Rug Hooking • May 27

Thursday, March 30, 6 - 9 pm
Sadie Stock
Fall in love with your old clothes all over again! Bring your ripped and worn clothing to Textile Center, and use the art of visible mending to give your old things renewed life. Learn 4 different methods of mending, including weaving stitch and patching, to repair clothing by hand. Complete at least one mending project in class, and learn the techniques to mend many more things at home. Be part of this slow fashion movement that embraces the beauty of old things from the past for a greener, more sustainable future! Open to beginners as well as more experienced hand sewers. $10 materials fee, payable to the instructor at the time of class.
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Instructor Bio:
Sadie Stock (she/they) began exploring fiber arts in childhood, learning spinning, knitting and sewing from the women in her family. She recently graduated from Sterling College in Vermont where the college’s experiential learning curriculum allowed Sadie to explore broad topics of ecology, food, education, and culture often through the medium of fiber. At Sterling, Sadie was introduced to natural dyes and dyeing, and since then has been diving into quilting, knitting, and crocheting as connecting threads to past generations in their family. Sadie is interested in exploring the fiber in context as an art form that spans cultures and time and tracks dynamics of class, race, and gender throughout the world.

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Visible Mending • March 30

Saturday, April 1, 10 am – 2 pm
Haley Harnagel
Make a macramé wall hanging from start to finish! Learn 5 basic macramé knots — larks head, spiral knot, square knot, double half hitch, and berry knot — needed to create macramé works of art. Students will have options when it comes to customizing their wall hanging, like accent color choice and design variations, to make their piece one-of-a-kind. The goal is for students to leave with a completed macramé tapestry, along with the confidence and inspiration to continue making on their own!
Materials fee $10, payable to instructor at the time of class.

Instructor Bio:
Haley Harnagel (she/her) is a fiber artist located in the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities. She started her adventure into fiber arts in 2019 with macramé and branched into tapestry weaving in 2020. Haley started teaching macramé and tapestry weaving in 2021 and completed a large-scale community project called Intertwining Stories: A Macro Macramé Project that focused on bringing the community together after the pandemic.

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Macramé Wall Hanging • April 1

Saturday, April 1, 10 am - 4 pm
Katherine Buenger

Create a cuff bracelet inspired by the woven belts and bands of the indigenous Sami people of Northern Europe. Use several sizes of tin thread and leather strips in a variety of colors to design and create your own unique cuff. Learn different braiding techniques to add dimension and visual interest, and apply what you learned to future jewelry projects! Please note: this class involves substantial hand sewing. Materials fee of $40 payable to instructor at the time of class includes tin thread, leather, threads, needles, and glue.

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Instructor Bio:
Katherine Buenger (she/her) has a degree in studio art from Macalester College. She enjoys many fiber-related arts, including weaving, spinning, ply-split braiding, button making, and braiding with Sami tin thread. Whether it is spinning the yellow pages, computer tape, or adding telephone wire to weavings, she likes finding something different and fun to do with her art. She is not afraid to break the rules and try something new, and encourages others to do the same. Katherine has taught at The Weavers Guild of Minnesota, Midwest Weavers Conference, Minnesota Federation of Weavers and Spinners, White Bear Center for the Arts, Marine Mills Folk School, American Kumihimo Society, Upper Midwest Bead Society and other venues. After teaching thousands of students, she is still having fun sharing her crafts with others.

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Sami-inspired Cuff Bracelet • April 1

Coming Soon

Pat Pauly, Guest Teaching Artist
5 days • Monday, April 17 - Friday, April 21, 2023
9:30 am – 4:30 pm, daily

Nonmembers: $922, Members: $830
($184.40/day for nonmembers, and $166/day for members!)

REGISTRATION CLOSES APRIL 10!

For scholarship inquiries, contact Cristin McKnight Sethi, cmcknightsethi@textilecentermn.org.

Join artist Pat Pauly for this five-day intensive workshop with improvisational piecing (sewing) as the base for composing contemporary works. Start with building a set—complete with insets, windows, thin lines, breaks, shifts and curves—all the tools of improvisational quilting. Then break apart this set to focus on design and composition, rearranging (with a few added tricks) the parts to become an entirely new piece. Explore creating works in a series, abstract forms in compositions, and allowing the fabric to do the work. Use your unique hand dyed or printed fabric, or commercial prints, as a jumping off point in a design. Perfect for anyone who wants to learn in depth the techniques of improvisational design piecing and strategies for making compelling works of fiber art. Instructor will bring a select number of her printed fabrics for any student who wishes to purchase additional fabric for their projects.
**See supply list of items to bring to class**

Click here to download the supply list.

We also invite you to join Pat's public lecture on Thursday, April 20 at 5 pm, to accompany the workshop!
Register for Art Speaks: One, Two, Many with Pat Pauly online here.

For our out of town guests, nearby accommodations are available with our partner hotel, Hampton Inn and Suites, University Ave. in Minneapolis. For the special Textile Center rate and more info, visit our website here: textilecentermn.org/visit/

Instructor Bio:
A sought-after lecturer and teacher in contemporary fiber arts, Pat Pauly (she/her) shares her wealth of knowledge from decades of working in design. Recognized nationally and internationally, her work evokes natural forms that are bold and graphic. Her award-winning art quilts have been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions. Her workshops focus on design and technique, as well as when to apply the rules, and when to toss them out. Pat Pauly’s studio is in Rochester, New York.

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Design Camp: Improv Piecing for Abstract Quilts • April 17 – 21 • Pat Pauly

Susan Moss, Guest Teaching Artist
3 days • Friday, May 5 - Sunday, May 7, 2023
9 am – 4:30 pm, daily

Nonmembers: $480, Members: $432

($160/day for nonmembers and $144/day for members!)

For scholarship inquiries, contact Cristin McKnight Sethi, cmcknightsethi@textilecentermn.org.

Join guest teaching artist Susan Moss to discover how an active sketchbook and journaling practice can enhance creative process and artistic growth. Learn strategies for a sketchbook practice that is low risk, non-evaluative, and exploratory. Work with varied materials – gouache, colored brush pens, markers, water soluble pencils – and respond to a range of mark-making and writing prompts. Experience how visual and written responses can serve as a departure point for reflection on artistic goals, for generating ideas, for recognizing the idiosyncratic patterns of one’s own art making, and for further inspiration. The exercises and prompts explored in this workshop will promote an ongoing sketchbook habit that will feed future art making and creative pursuits. Materials fee of $75, payable to instructor at the time of class.
**See supply list of items to bring to class**

Click here to download supply list.

For our out of town guests, nearby accommodations are available with our partner hotel, Hampton Inn and Suites, University Ave. in Minneapolis. For the special Textile Center rate and more info, visit our website here: textilecentermn.org/visit/

Instructor Bio:
Susan Moss (she/her) has been marking on surfaces since a child: on paper table cloths, fabric, archival paper, large and small. Her work has been exhibited in over ninety venues. She recently retired from Fort Lewis College (Durango, CO) where she taught all levels of drawing, contemporary textile art, and seminars focused on developing and articulating visual ideas.

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The Creative Sketchbook • May 5 – 7 • Susan Moss; ONLY 3 SPOTS LEFT!

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, April 4, 5 – 7 pm

Join us for a closing reception for the following exhibitions:

Thursday, April 20, 5 pm CT

Join us in welcoming Pat Pauly (Rochester, NY) for a hybrid public lecture: Art Speaks: One, Two, Many – REGISTER HERE!

On View

2022 McKnight Fiber Artist Fellowship Exhibition and Fiber Art Discussion Series

2022 McKnight Fiber Artist Fellowship Exhibition and Fiber Art Discussion Series

Fresh Eye Arts: 3 Fiber Artists

Fresh Eye Arts: 3 Fiber Artists

Interact Center: J A Q Purple 7

Interact Center: J A Q Purple 7

Thank you to the foundations providing operating support to Textile Center!

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