Art Speaks • Unraveling Passing with Embodied Material

Join us for Textile Center’s Art Speaks: Unraveling Passing with Embodied Material, a conversation with Embodied Material exhibiting artists as part of Minnesota Handwork and Embodied Material’s exhibition in the Mary Giles and Community Galleries at Textile Center, October 27, 2026 – January 7, 2027. This Art Speaks will be presented virtually, on Zoom. Learn more + register here.

Facilitated by Olive Comstock, Embodied Material member artists reflect on their collective reading of “Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender Conformity” edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Seal Press, 2006). Reflections on how expectations around textile art and perceptions of gender intertwine will inform the conversation. Each participating artist will share about their work exhibited at Textile Center and discuss how it relates to dissecting this and other texts that inform their practices.