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.

  Studios

Maude May

www.maudemay.art

Maude May has been making art since childhood -stitching preprinted samplers, fabricating elaborate collaged drawings and more. With advanced degrees in ceramics, textiles and photography, her passions have led her in many directions: pastry chef, art director, miniature golf course designer, and photo stylist. Maude shares her enthusiasm and knowledge, and has taught textile-focused classes at Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Menucha, Art & Soul, Earthues and in her studio. Her current art practice centers around collage – layering images utilizing hand stitching and photography. She collects discarded snapshots, scans of her own photographic art and more. Images are ink jet printed directly onto either linen or cotton and, then along with both used and new fabrics and discarded papers, are assembled to tell a new visual story. Layers of hand & machine stitching bind everything together. Maude creates are to rediscover the mysteries of people, memories, words, landscapes and possessions from her past, and the lives of others, that were once deemed precious and have been forgotten or left behind.

 ceramics  collage  photography  textile