Mia Finnamore – Page 14 – Textile Center

Ceci Lewis

Ceci Lewis, Textile Center Teaching Artist “I’d rather do anything other than clean my worktable, but I need to reclaim my space,” says Ceci Lewis, one of Textile Center’s esteemed instructors and an avid indigo dyer who is…

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Debbie Johnson

Debbie Johnson, President of MN Basket Weavers Guild and Textile Center Shop Staff Member Anyone who frequents Textile Center’s shop knows how passionate Debbie Johnson is about making. As President of the MN Basket Weavers since 2017, Debbie…

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Carolyn Halliday

Carolyn Halliday, 2020 Spun Gold Award Winner One of Carolyn Halliday’s early works is a collection of tall, wire-knit trees, and it is an example of what speaks to her today: family, nature, and science. “I named that…

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Mariana Shulstad

Mariana Shulstad, President of Textile Center’s Board of Directors, yarn enthusiast, and weaver “Knitting is something I’ve done all my life,” says Mariana Shulstad, as she showcases a red wool sweater she made for her husband, Craig Shulstad.…

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Ella Ramsey

Ella Ramsey, Past Board President of Textile Center, Fabric Enthusiast Everyone who knows Ella can tell you about her passion for fabric. During Textile Center’s recent tours to India and Japan, she acquired textiles that are now serving…

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Show + Tell

“For artists, this unexpected time can be viewed as an artist residency, a time without (many) external demands, to focus on creative studio work. I’m certainly thinking about it that way and feel fortunate that I am clear…

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Roots of Our Labor

July 7 - October 10, 2020 • Studio Gallery The 2019-2020 grantees of the Jerome Fiber Artists Project Grant celebrated another year of the program’s success by proposing and producing projects that challenged their studio practices and the…

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Art Cloth Network: Full Circle

July 7 - September 21, 2020 • Community Gallery From tradition to innovation and back, 27 member artists of the Art Cloth Network, a national organization of textile and fiber arts professionals celebrating its 20th anniversary year, prove…

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PRIDE

July 7 - September 7, 2020 • Joan Mondale Gallery Textile Center is proud to present PRIDE, the first exhibition in our history in tribute and support of nationally known textile artists in the LGBTQ+ community. Join us…

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MSS Textile Showcase

Opening July 7, 2020 • Library Gallery Midwest Special Services (MSS) and Textile Center collaborated in 2019 to offer sequential learning workshops in shibori and embroidery to MSS day program participants. Textile Center instructors Susan Leschke and Sandra…

Author - Mia Finnamore