PTXM 2025: Legacies

What are the legacies we choose to build, honor, preserve, and what are the legacies we decide to relinquish? How do our legacies collectively create space for what is yet to come and nourish ideas waiting to be formed? Against the backdrop of our common struggles, which stories, spaces, gatherings, and teachings will be vital threads we pass forward? How do we know where one legacy ends and another begins? Rooted in community and shared knowledge across cultures and generations, our legacies offer pathways for collaboration, learning, and transformation.

Join us next October as we showcase a wealth of diverse cultural and generational perspectives through our collective knowledge, experiences, and textile practices. Powered by inclusive, grassroots organizing within Portland’s vibrant textile community and beyond, we look forward to your participation in PTXM 2025!

Thank you for your interest. We are excited to share that submissions for this October’s festival will open in July.

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With gratitude and admiration,

Textile eXchange

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In just over 4 years, Portland TextileX Month (PTXM) has turned from an ambitious idea into an engaged community movement. This transformation highlights the power of our mission to foster collaboration, cross-pollination, cultural dialogue, and intergenerational exchange among the Portland textile community and beyond.

This year we’ve organized the PTXM festival with over 40 events and directly sponsored a multitude of FREE programs including exhibits, workshops, artist talks, community events, and more—representing a diverse range of textile interests and practices. This year’s PTXM Regeneration Festival has brought together makers, businesses, teachers, students, institutions, and organizations to gather around shared interests and knowledge-sharing. PTXM would not have been possible without the dedication of event organizers, paid contributors, paid interns, amazing volunteers and the receptiveness of the textile community.

We hope to continue building PTXM and TextileX website as sustainable resources that serve the textile community for years to come, and that’s where you come in.

If you feel a connection to the PTXM mission and what we can accomplish together, please consider making a direct contribution programming. As a direct contributor, your funds will go directly toward programming, lean administrative expenses, and providing paid internships. We appreciate any contribution you can make and your continued support.

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