Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Based in Minneapolis, MN, Minnesota Center for the Book Arts (MCBA) is the largest, most comprehensive center of its kind in the world. Annually, we offer 200+ workshops, present 10 gallery exhibitions, and host five artist fellowships in our 12,000+ square foot space. We’re also pretty proud of being the first (and only) center in North America with public access to foreign language type.

MCBA’s mission is to ignite artistic practice, inspire learning, and foster diverse creative communities through the book arts. We make book arts more accessible by providing tools, equipment, and knowledge. We support artists from different backgrounds and encourage creative growth. Through exhibitions and educational programs, we bring people together, inspire new ideas, and help shape the future of the book arts.

StevenBe

StevenBe Studio is based in the heart of South Minneapolis. We are a yarn and fiber-shop housed in a turn of the century firehouse. We carry supplies for all fiber arts like: knitting, crocheting, felting, spinning, weaving, and embroidery. StevenBe offers a community environment welcoming to all. USA Today honored StevenBe by including them in their Top Ten Yarn Shops in North America list.Nnow StevenBe brings style and sense of humor to Minneapolis. StevenBe is known for our explosion of color, tongue-in-cheek wit, and love for the freedom of the fiber arts!

StevenBe is an artistic fiber studio that is armed with?a wealth of experience, a daring sense of style, and a firm belief?in the transformative power of creativity that knitting or?crocheting, felting, and other fiber arts have to offer. StevenBe strives to make each and every person an amazing fiber artist.

Three Rivers Fibershed

The Three Rivers Fibershed, an affiliate branch of Fibershed, organizes for the development of regional fiber systems that build soil health and protect the wellbeing of our biosphere. Our mission is to create strong, decentralized textile economies that build from the resources within our own communities within a 175-mile radius of Minneapolis.

Northfield Yarn

Northfield Yarn is an independently owned yarn shop located in historic downtown Northfield, Minnesota. We carry a broad range of yarns, in a kaleidoscope of colors, including traditional wools from Shetland, Iceland, and Norway. Of course we also carry all the tools and fun things that go with yarn, and offer classes, lessons, and a drop-in knitting clinic.

Northfield Yarn’s mission is to create a community around a shared love for fiber crafts by providing access to quality supplies, inspiring pattern suggestions, and friendly, judgment-free instruction.

Annandale Art and Textile Center

Located just one hour northwest of Minneapolis, the Annandale Art and Textile Center is the home of the Heart of the Lakes Weavers, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that employs people with a variety of learning styles and abilities as weavers. AATC features a retail gallery where we sell items woven on site as well as the works of over 50 local artists. In addition, AATC offers weaving and creative classes for the general public in our adjoining art center.

AATC is a non-profit that employs people with a variety of learning styles and abilities as weavers — the Heart of the Lakes Weavers. At its heart, AATC is about so much more than weaving; we are providing jobs with dignity in a joyful place.