Join us with a commitment to renew, inspire, and grow your creative practice with a Guest Teaching Artist Class!

Different from our core adult classes, Guest Teaching Artist workshops need to reach a minimum number of participants well in advance of the workshop date in order for the workshop to run.

If you are interested in participating in a Guest Teaching Artist workshop, do not delay in registering and make sure you “CLAIM YOUR SPOT” as soon as possible!

Please note that because the Guest Teaching Artist workshops are structured differently from our regular adult classes, they have a different withdrawal policy.

Design Camp: Improv Piecing for Abstract Quilts
Monday, April 17 – Friday, April 21, 2023 • with Pat Pauly

REGISTRATION CLOSED

Join artist Pat Pauly for this 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.

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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.

The Creative Sketchbook
Friday, May 5 – Sunday, May 7, 2023 • with Susan Moss

SOLD OUT

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.

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Adire to Indigo: Resist-Dyeing in the Yoruba Tradition
Tuesday, June 13 – Friday, June 16, 2023 • with Gasali Onireke Adeyemo

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Experience the richness of adire resist-dyeing with indigo in the Yoruba tradition! Join artist Gasali Onireke Adeyemo in this special 4-day workshop as he shares his knowledge of surface design and dyeing from his native Osun State, Nigeria. Participants will learn the complete adire process, from preparing the cassava resist paste to painting and stenciling with traditional Yoruba patterns to dyeing adire cloth with indigo.

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Piecework: Exploring Personal Narrative with Collage and Encaustic
Monday, July 24 – Friday, July 28, 2023 • with Susan Stover

ONLY 4 SPOTS LEFT!

Join Guest Teaching Artist Susan Stover for an exploration of personal narrative through the mediums of collage and encaustic. Whether you have a story to tell or want to dig deeper into your own artistic motivations, explore how the pieces of our histories come together to influence how we work and what we create. Using fabric and paper, make your own collage materials to embed into encaustic.

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Rozome Intensive
Tuesday, August 15 – Saturday, August 19, 2023 • with Kiranada Benjamin

ONLY 1 SPOT LEFT!

Join Kiranada Sterling Benjamin for a professional workshop on the ancient art of Japanese resist painting and dyeing known as rozome. With roots in 8th-century Japan, the art of rozome appears on everything from scrolls to standing screens to kimonos, and has been dazzling fiber artists abroad for the last fifty years. Participants will learn eight different wax techniques in addition to four different dyeing techniques utilized by master rozome artists.

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Traditional Kimono Making
Saturday, September 9 – Tuesday, September 12, 2023 • with Tsuyo Onodera & Maki Aizawa

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Join Master Kimono Maker Tsuyo Onodera and her daughter, artist Maki Aizawa, as they lead a special 4-day kimono-making workshop. Tsuyo and Maki will lead participants through the art of traditional kimono making from selecting and pinning the tanmono fabric to sewing your very own obi and casual summer kimono known as yukata. Explore the history of traditional kimono-making including discussion of kimono layout, construction, size, and pattern alignment.

Learn more & register here

Cancellation and refund policies are included on each class registration page. Generally, 50% refund available if withdrawn by the Earlybird deadline, or two weeks prior to the start of class if there is no Earlybird rate. Due to the scheduling nature of these classes and arrangements for instructors, no refunds are available after that.

(Header photo: (left) artwork by June 2023 Guest Teaching Artist Gasali Onireke Adeyemo; (right) artwork by May 2023 Guest Teaching Artist Susan Moss)

Traveling from out of town?

We have lodging and accommodations available right down the street!

The Minneapolis/Saint Paul International Airport just a 15-20 minute drive away, and Textile Center is also located steps from the Prospect Park light rail stop (no car necessary)!

Our official hotel sponsor, Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton, is just one block from Textile Center at 2812 University Ave SE, and offers a preferred nightly rate of 15% off the room rate for Textile Center patrons (any room). This rate includes wifi, free hot breakfast, nightly parking, fitness center, indoor pool, and shuttle to and from Textile Center. To receive this rate, book online here.

Enjoy the vibrancy of the Twin Cities during your stay!

Here are a couple of resources to help you make the most of your time here:

• Meet Minneapolis Visitor Guide
• Visit St. Paul “Things to do” guide