Fiber Pollinator Garden
PARTICIPATE: Seeking donations of fiber pollinators through February 3, 2026.
VIEW: On view February 20 – March 20, 2025 at Textile Center.
Contribute a handmade fiber art pollinator to our community garden!
This year, for our Fiber Art for All community project, we’re celebrating the pollinators that make our gardens and Minnesota’s beautiful landscapes thrive year-round!
Just as a garden is made strong by its pollinators, Textile Center is made strong by our community. Our Fiber Pollinator Garden celebrates the many creative individuals who come together and share their unique voice and craft through knitting, weaving, sewing, quilting, felting, beading, crocheting, dyeing and more!
We invite everyone, of all ages and skill levels, to help grow our garden of pollinators and contribute to a beautiful indoor garden installation. Use your favorite fiber art technique to create a Minnesota-native pollinator such as a bee, butterfly, bird, or beetle.
STEP ONE: Make your fiber pollinator.
- Keep your pollinator 6″ or less in diameter.
STEP TWO: Drop off or mail in your pollinator.
- If dropping off at Textile Center, look for the colorful paper mache dropbox! Sign our clipboard sheet to acknowledge you are donating your piece to the project, and write your name down so we can add you to the list of participating artists!
- If mailing in your pollinator, please print and sign the form here, include it in your package, and mail your package to:
Textile Center
Attn: Stella Williams
3000 University Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN, 55414
STEP THREE: Mark your calendar for our Fiber Art for All Open House on February 20+21, 2026, to see the project unveiled!
Why pollinators? Textile Center has a dye garden that wraps around half of our building, called A Garden to Dye For. For over 10 years, the dye garden has provided the Prospect Park community with a living educational and creative resource, cultivating, harvesting, and fostering understanding of natural dye plants. The plants are appreciated for both their beauty and their pigments, and they are used year-round in classes exploring natural dyeing, from flower-pounded designs to resist-dyed fabrics and more. Our garden, and the Minnesota landscapes we love, exist thanks to the many pollinators that visit each bloom and carry pollen from flower to flower.
Learn more about some of Minnesota’s pollinators:
TYPES OF POLLINATORS
