Welcome to the Portland TextileX Month New Traditions Festival!

As we think about New Traditions, we’re considering the questions that shape this contemporary moment and its broad implications. 
 
In this moment of rapid transformation what traditions do we preserve and build upon and what do we rethink and rebuild anew? 
 
How can we transform our textile practices, collections, materials, businesses, institutions, and educational systems to serve a more inclusive, equitable, sustainable, and connected purpose? 
 
What is the future we want to weave and how do we build it together? 
 
Our continued goal for this year’s festival is to engage, share ideas, histories, knowledge, experiences, and practices across myriad cultures, viewpoints, and generations. We are excited to explore this topic with you and see what New Traditions we can weave together.

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Multi-Day Event:

11.9

12.2

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Exhibit | Free

Schematic: Dissonance and Distortion

This body of work is a reflection on 2020 and 2021, and the rift in understanding that has broadened throughout our countr…

Tuesday, November 9 Thursday, December 2

Forsberg Art Gallery

1528 Maple St Longview

Organized By

Alexis Day

Multi-Day Event:

10.19

12.3

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Distributed Community Project, Exhibit, TextileX Exhibit | Free

Sky Exchange II

The second iteration of 2020’s Sky Exchange presents a collection of sky flags created by participants from around the world.

Tuesday, October 19 Friday, December 3

PLACE

735 NW 18th Ave, Portland

Organized By

Brittany Vega

Multi-Day Event:

10.19

12.3

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Exhibit, TextileX Exhibit | Free

What We Carried: Threads

For Portland Textiles Month, Jim Lommasson has assembled works in which participants chose textiles to carry to their new …

Tuesday, October 19 Friday, December 3

PLACE

735 NW 18th Ave, Portland

Organized By

The Immigrant Story

Remembering Andrea Aranow

It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of the pioneering fashion designer, textile collector, and entrepreneur Andrea Aranow. Andrea lived a rich life, influencing and inspiring us with her intellect, curiosity, creativity, and passion for, fashion, textiles, design, and travel. The knowledge she shared through her textile collection, exhibits, showcases, and lectures, informed and enriched each year's festival.

We continue to honor Andrea's legacy, spirit, and passion for textiles globally as we expand to promote exchanges between textile communities throughout the world during Portland TextileX Month. Those with stories, pictures, or remembrances of Andrea are encouraged to contribute them to be included in a virtual exhibit opening on October 26th as Part of PTXM.

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Multi-Day Event:

10.18

1.5

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Exhibit Window | Free

1000 Moons Installation

Paper art installation and ongoing grief process, visualizing the timespan of a life through every full moon cycle in 94 years.

Monday, October 18 Wednesday, January 5

Cafe Crema Art Annex

28 SE 28th Ave Portland

Organized By

Emily Jung Miller

Multi-Day Event:

10.7

1.30

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Exhibit | Free

Tikkun Olam – Mending the Social Fabric

Mending the Social Fabric, made specifically for OJMCHE, is guided by the Jewish principle “Tikkun Olam,” which means “rep…

Thursday, October 7 Sunday, January 30

Organized By

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

Multi-Day Event:

10.31

2.15

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Exhibit Virtual | Free

Celebrating Andrea Aranow, a life in full vibrancy and pattern

A virtual exhibit and gathering celebrating the life and adventures of Andrea Aranow

Sunday, October 31 Tuesday, February 15

Organized By

Textile Hive

Help Support Future PTXM Programming

In just over 3 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 exchange among the Portland textile community and beyond.

This year we’ve organized the PTXM festival with over 40 events and directly sponsored over 20 programs including exhibits, workshops, artist talks, community projects, podcasts, and more—representing a diversity of textile interests and practices. This year’s PTXM New Traditions Festival has galvanized 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 paid administrative contributors, paid interns, 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 directly supporting our future programming. As a direct contributor, your funds will go toward operational expenses such as exhibit space, seed funding for next year’s community projects, and paying our talented administrative contributors. We appreciate any contribution you can make and your continued support.

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