Welcome to the TextileX resource guide—a growing effort created to map out and connect the vibrant textile community and resources in the Portland metro area and beyond. The foundation of this guide was built from the diversity of organizations that participate in the Portland TextileX Month festival every October.
Development of and funding for this guide have been provided by Textile Hive with additional funding from a RACC catalyst grant in 2019.
We encourage you to contribute additional resources through this form and consider becoming a member of TextileX to help further develop this resource guide as well as Portland TextileX Month.
Galleries
1122 Gallery
From 2018-2020, 1122 was in a backyard garage in the Montavilla neighborhood of Southeast Portland. As of May 2021, 1122 is an outdoor space in the Tabor neighborhood. 1122 is a community art gallery located in Portland, Oregon. It offers workshops, hosts events, and is open to collaborations of all kinds. It is inclusive, immersive, and aims to support people in the creative process. 1122 is a platform for all voices and stories and is committed to helping people generate art. We believe in responding to the world through creative acts, and support the community of makers, thinkers, dreamers, and imaginationists that make this happen. Jen Denrow and Lauren Wallig, creative humans and cousins, have been dreaming about creating a space like this for years.
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Blackfish Gallery
Combining a mentor-based approach with an exceptional visiting artists program, students work one-on-one with nationally and internationally recognized designers, makers, and scholars in a self-directed curriculum that challenges them to bring to life the full strength of their ideas and skills.
Organizations
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture (at PNCA)
The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture is a platform for cultural production including exhibition, lecture, performance, and publication. Housed within Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), the Center throws open its doors to the greater public to foster conversation and community.
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Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Established in 1981, the Elizabeth Leach Gallery presents prominent Northwest and internationally established artists working in a wide variety of contemporary media. The gallery's mission is to create a dynamic dialogue between the local community and the global art world.
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Fuller Rosen Gallery
Fuller Rosen Gallery was founded in 2018 by artists EM Fuller (she/her) and BriAnna Rosen (she/her) as a collaborative curatorial project. The gallery exhibits regional, national, and international emerging artists who address urgent, contemporary issues.
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Gallery 114
Founded in 1990 as an artist's cooperative, Gallery 114 celebrates its strength and resilience as a gallery that provides opportunities for artists to exhibit with complete artistic freedom. It inspires its members to push their limits and take their ideas to unexpected and challenging places. Whether we are exhibiting 2D, 3D, sculpture, video art and more, you will find artistic exceptional innovation at Gallery 114. Our neighborhood (the Pearl District) is Portland’s playground, ideal for strolling, shopping, dining and enjoying many other fine galleries. Our juried and guest-artist exhibits give the gallery an ever-expanding and national scope. We also welcome plays, lectures, readings, musical performances and film screenings. Gallery 114 is a Proud Member of Portland Coalition of Art Collectives. The arts uniquely empower the creative vitality of every identity. G114 understands that America's cultural vocabulary is due to its diversity and that all cultures are vital to the arts and the promotion of a culturally democratic world. We recognize that cultural diversity includes language, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and range of ability and age. We aim to create and adhere to policies that increase and support diversity within our organization and monthly shows, and we seek to enhance member understanding of diversity issues in order to achieve our mission.
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HOLDING Contemporary
HOLDING Contemporary presents exhibitions and programs by emerging and established visual artists across disciplines. Through a deliberate curatorial vision and a strategic business model, we position ourselves towards challenging the economical and social privilege of the art world.
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Helen's Costume
Helen's Costume is a contemporary art gallery in a modified domestic setting, in the Montavilla neighborhood of Portland OR.
Studios
Landdd
We are Javier Reyes of rrres and Lillian Hardy of Heavy Set. In August 2022, we formed Landdd— a design and creative production studio in Portland, OR. We take on a research-based approach naturally shaped by the confluence of our own studio practices as artists in Oaxaca de Juárez and the Pacific Northwest. We offer private commissions for commercial clients and residential interiors, and produce seasonal collections of objects, textiles and campaigns centered around narratives of our respective cultures. From working closely with master artisans across Mexico, leading creative teams with commercial agencies, organizing community events, and one-on-one projects with designers, our work is fundamentally rooted in a collaborative ethos.
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Lumber Room
The lumber room is a space for contemporary art in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 2010, it is dedicated to an ever evolving approach to the exhibition and discussion of emerging as well as established artists and their work.
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MK Gallery
The Art Building at Portland State University is home to the MK Galleries.
MK Gallery brings world-class exhibitions and events together with pioneering learning and community programmes to Milton Keynes.
An independent café and shop, cinema from Curzon, and spectacular views over the park feature in this new building, which launched in 2019. Three major exhibitions are presented each year across five elegant and spacious galleries, from thematic group exhibitions to in-depth solo presentations. Alongside our exhibitions, we offer music, dance, talks and conferences, mixing emerging and locally based talent with established names. We also deliver a weekly film programme featuring the best of independent cinema in partnership with Curzon. We offer schools and family activities throughout the year and our artist-designed play area is open 365 days a year.Businesses
Marcel Good Goods
https://www.instagram.com/marcel.good.goods?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D
Marcel is a vintage home goods store and gallery in White Salmon, WA.
Galleries
Nationale
Nationale is an art space established in 2008 by Owner/Director, May Barruel. Nationale is dedicated to the promotion of culture through exhibitions, performances, and a selection of carefully chosen goods.
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Nine Gallery
https://www.blueskygallery.org/nine-gallery
Nine Gallery was founded in 1987 by nine artists interested in working periodically outside the context of the commercial gallery. It is an artist-run cooperative and is administratively and financially independent from Blue Sky, funded solely by its members. Each member of Nine Gallery is in charge of the gallery for one month each year. Usually members show their own work, however, they are also welcome to curate shows of other artists’ work. Periodically the members of Nine Gallery, present work together in group exhibitions, and at other times they collectively invite other artists to show. Beyond the general interest in creating a largely non-commercial exhibition environment with a minimum of bureaucratic and institutional structure, the members of Nine Gallery have no collective ideological program or philosophy.
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SATOR Projects
SATOR projects is a migrating exhibition series directed by Jess Nickel. The name is inspired by the sator/rotas square. While the meaning of this symbol has been interpreted in various ways, this project was inspired by the Latin meaning behind SATOR - sower, planter, and its reverse ROTAS - rotating, turning wheels. It is the mission of SATOR projects to seed arts into fallow spaces in the community through exhibitions, public programs and events.
Organizations
Stelo Arts and Culture Foundation
Stelo illuminates the power of art to invite conversation and build community. We are dedicated to responsive models of support via partnerships, collaboration, and exchange.
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after / time collective
https://www.aftertimecollective.com/
after / time is an artist-run gallery and experimental curatorial platform based in Portland, Oregon.
To come after is to acknowledge what has come before: histories, practices, actions, positionalities and to move with the knowledge and capacity to care for the past, build the present, and nurture the future. Understanding that just as time is not fixed and thus forms a time-complex that we move through, so are our actions and thoughts in a constant state of flux: reacting with and against the perimeters we exist within while also projecting into new registers of possibility. After declares the need for balance: that at times our work, while important, needs to come after our needs as people and as artists; we strive not to drain and exhaust, but to build, to inspire, and recharge.
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imperfecta
imperfecta is an art & design gallery focused on elevating women artists and underrepresented creatives. Our driving belief is that nothing is perfect and that imperfections are what makes humans human. Imperfecta collects, shares and offers art that reflects this belief as well as design artefacts and wondrous heirlooms that bring beauty wherever they go. As an art gallery, we love showcasing diverse fine art types - from visual art to sculptures, assemblages, interactive installations, conceptual art and art dolls. As a design space, our inventory includes jewelry, vessels, unique decorations, dinnerware and, occasionally, antique fabrics, furniture, and heirlooms. We also have a large collection of vintage art, design and photography books, which are available for purchase as well as reading in the comfort of our gallery. Due to the extensive number of books in the collection, not all are currently listed in our shop -- please contact us if you are looking for a specific title. In 2025 imperfecta launched Imperfecta Arts Collective - a program focused on elevating the arts in Oregon City and surrounding communities by focusing on three key goals: hosting engaging art events, offering art residencies, and providing professional workshops for artists.