Fiber Arts Calendars

Fiberarts and textile related conferences, workshops, and events are added on a regular basis. If your event is not shown here, please add the information using the Add Event link. Events are listed in chronological order and remain listed for seven days after their last day. Use the Complete Listing links to see all the events in a given category.

Workshops, Seminars and Retreats

Complete listing of fiber related events which are shorter and more informal than conferences. These events are often limited to a single topic, Ranging from a gathering of fiber friends to a more formal class with a leader from outside the area.

Harrisville Designs 2025 Workshops
April 22, 2025   through   October 25, 2025      

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The workshops cover in-person lessons on spinning, knitting and weaving at the Harrisville Designs facility in Harrisville, New Hampshire USA. Boarding is not included with registration but is available nearby.

Cold Connections: Textile Techniques in Wire With Heather Hietala
July 7, 2025   through   July 11, 2025      

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Explore the artistic and practical uses of wire and create three-dimensional forms. Using your hands, pliers, and cold connections you will discover the wonderful immediacy of wire working. Basic tinkering and fiber construction techniques, including coiling, sewing, lashing, wrapping, shaping and twining will be covered. Wire is a very versatile material and can be incorporated or combined with other materials. We will begin by making small studies and then explore larger forms.

Artistic Improv: A ‘yes And’ Approach With Winnie Van Der Rijn
August 22, 2025   through   August 23, 2025      

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Join us in welcoming Winnie van der Rijn to Textile Center for a special Guest Teaching Artist workshop. Utilizing a variety of mixed media applications, Winnie will guide participants in an expansive and improvisational approach to artmaking. Discuss and learn exercises of design opportunity, iteration, collaboration, deconstruction, artistic decision making and skill sharing. Participants in the workshop are encouraged to utilize their existing artistic skills — whether weaving, knitting, printing, sewing, painting, collaging, dyeing, etc. — and to bring a variety of different materials from home to use in a collaborative fashion on the creation of new work. The project and process for the workshop will be guided by the materials and skills that everyone brings to the table.

Pattern Play: Ikat Weaving With Wendy Weiss
September 25, 2025   through   September 29, 2025      

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Pattern Play: Ikat Weaving with Wendy Weiss 5 days • September 25 – 29, 2025 10 am – 4 pm, daily at Textile Center Join us in welcoming Wendy Weiss for a special Guest Teaching Artist workshop on warp ikat dyeing with natural plant dyes in collaboration with the Weavers Guild of Minnesota. Learn about the historically and culturally rich practice of warp ikat dyeing and weaving in a collaborative, community environment under the guidance of an expert artist working in these traditions.

Complete Workshop Listing

Exhibits

Fiber arts and textile related exhibits in galleries, studios, museums and art centers. Juried and non-juried shows are also listed here.

Stitching Black Legacy: The Quilts of Carolyn Mazloomi
April 22, 2025   through   July 12, 2025      

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Textile Center proudly presents Stitching Black Legacy: The Quilts of Carolyn Mazloomi, the largest solo exhibition of Mazloomi’s work ever held under one roof. All of the quilts in this exhibition were created in 2024 and 2025. Carolyn Mazloomi’s black-and-white quilts catalyze ideas illustrated in her diaries and sketchbooks, where she embarks on in-depth explorations into the lives of freedom fighters. Her drawings are printed onto cotton fabric from these pages in rich, black ink reminiscent of the bold graphics captured in woodblock prints and indelible photographs reproduced in newspapers. Through this process, Mazloomi builds the compelling and complex narratives of Black trailblazers, memorializing their stories for future generations. Each quilt is framed by a patchwork border — a kaleidoscope of geometric patterns that celebrate the quilting community and those craft traditions that she has made significant contributions to as a curator, author, and community organizer.

Complete Exhibit Listing

Call for Entries and Call for Instructors

Requests for submissions to fiber arts and textile competitions, exhibits, conference workshop proposals, and academic papers.

Open Call For Quilts=art=quilts
July 1, 2025   through   August 5, 2025      

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Quilts=Art=Quilts is an annual juried quilt exhibition that has been held since the Art Center’s opening in 1981. Each year the exhibit attracts competitive entries from some of the world’s leading quilt makers and fiber artists. This year's exhibition will be Oct. 25, 2025 - Jan. 4th, 2026. Deadline to apply is August 5th, 2025. 2025 Jurors: Petra Fallaux and Paula Kovarik

Complete Call for Entries and Call for Instructors Listing

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