ORIGIN STORIES PTXM 2024
What was the spark—real or imagined—that infused your project, body of work, business, or other creation with life and energy? Amid the collective challenges we now face, which stories, journeys, spaces, gatherings, teachings, and solutions are crucial to carry us forward?
Join us this October as we showcase the wealth of diverse cultural and generational viewpoints through your unique knowledge, experiences, and textile practices. Powered by inclusive and grassroots organizing within the vibrant Portland textile community and beyond, we look forward to your participation in PTXM 2024!
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Date of Event:
10.28
Interlaced Communities | Free
Interlaced Communities: The Language of Palestinian Embroidery with Wafa Ghnaim
Date of Event:
10.22
Sold Out
Workshop | Sold Out
Gather Round: Weaving in a Circle Our Mixed Identities
Date of Event:
10.22
Sold Out
Community Project | Sold Out
A Common Thread: A Collaborative Crochet Experience
Date of Event:
10.21
Exhibit, Lecture/talk, Performing & Visual Arts | Free
Many Colors, Many Cultures
Date of Event:
10.21
Interlaced Communities | Free
Interlaced Communities: Threads of Community with Family and Friends
Date of Event:
10.7
Interlaced Communities | Free
Interlaced Communities: Fuchsia Lin, Anne Greenwood, and Visiting Textile Artists
Multi-Day Event:
10.6
10.28
Date of Event:
10.5
Business & Professional, Lecture/talk | Free
Can you sell artisan textiles with meaning?
Multi-Day Event:
10.5
10.31
Date of Event:
10.29
TextileX Vibrant Spaces | Free
TextileX Vibrant Spaces: Hyun Jung Jung X That Year
Date of Event:
10.25
TextileX Talks, Virtual Lecture | Free
TextileX Talk Esprit Flashback: Preserving the brand that defined the 1980s
Date of Event:
10.16
Virtual Lecture | Free
Art & Dialog Indonesia: The Collaborations of Brahma Tirta Sari
Date of Event:
10.8
Lecture/talk, TextileX Vibrant Spaces, Tour | Free
Vibrant Spaces: Portland Garment Factory
Date of Event:
10.2
Sold Out
Workshop | Sold Out
Communal Resuscitation of a Dead Horse: A Workshop on Stop-Motion Embroidery
Multi-Day Event:
10.31
2.15
Exhibit Virtual | Free
Celebrating Andrea Aranow, a life in full vibrancy and pattern
Date of Event:
10.27
Virtual Lecture | Free
William Ingram: Sustaining Indonesia’s Textile Traditions
Date of Event:
10.27
Lecture/talk, TextileX Conversation Series, Virtual Lecture, Virtual Panel, Virtual Workshop | Free
TextileX Conversation Series with Jovencio de la Paz and Sonja Dahl
Date of Event:
10.26
Lecture/talk, Virtual Lecture | Free
Flags: Symbolism and Meaning in a Changing Society
Multi-Day Event:
10.24
10.31
Date of Event:
10.24
Virtual Workshop | Paid $
Body-Positive Tailoring: Remaking of an Old Tradition
Date of Event:
10.23
TextileX Workshop, Virtual Workshop, Workshop | Free
TextileX Textiles Waste Workshop by Victoria Wanjuhi
Date of Event:
10.23
Exhibit, Workshop | Free
This Is / Is This a City: Project Discussion and Knitting Demonstration
Date of Event:
10.20
TextileX Conversation Series, Virtual Lecture, Virtual Panel | Free
TextileX Conversation Series: Blue McCall and Vo Vo
Date of Event:
10.19
Lecture/talk, TextileX Conversation Series, Virtual Lecture, Virtual Panel | Free
Materials Innovation and New Traditions Panel
Multi-Day Event:
10.19
12.3
Distributed Community Project, Exhibit, TextileX Exhibit | Free
Sky Exchange II
Date of Event:
10.17
TextileX Workshop, Workshop | Free
Creating Wearable Art Headwear from Salvaged Materials with Keeva Moselle
Multi-Day Event:
10.13
10.25
Date of Event:
10.13
TextileX Conversation Series, Virtual Lecture, Virtual Panel | Free
TextileX Conversation Series: Jo Hamilton and Eli West
Date of Event:
10.9
Distributed Community Project, TextileX Workshop, Workshop | Free
Communities Interwoven Distributed Community Project Workshop
Date of Event:
10.7
Virtual Lecture | Free
Divining Color: An Interview with Leatrice Eiseman of the Pantone Color Institute
Date of Event:
10.6
TextileX Conversation Series | Free
TextileX Conversation Series: Gwyn Conaway and Kristi O’Meara
Date of Event:
10.5
Virtual Lecture | Free
Jean Pierre Nugloze of N’Kossi Boutique: Couture African Fashions
Date of Event:
10.2
Distributed Community Project, Seminar or Talk, Virtual Lecture, Workshop | Free
Sourcing Materials: A Post-apocalyptic Approach to Design Lecture
Date of Event:
5.3
Date of Event:
3.12
Virtual Lecture | Free
Kat Karnaky PSU Talk Surface Design for the Fashion Industry
Multi-Day Event:
2.18
4.1
Exhibit, Virtual Lecture, Virtual Workshop | Free
Things that have to do with fire
Date of Event:
10.22
Virtual Workshop | Free
Virtual Sewing Circle with Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger
Multi-Day Event:
10.17
11.1
Exhibit Virtual | Free
Stitching Portland’s Black History: Virtual Exhibit
Multi-Day Event:
10.16
10.31
Community Distributed Project | Free
Interlace: A Community Weaving Project
Date of Event:
10.15
Virtual Panel | Free
Stitching History: The Afro-American Heritage Bicentennial Commemorative Quilt
Multi-Day Event:
10.6
10.31
Exhibit Window | Free
Multicultural Wearable art: representation matters
Multi-Day Event:
10.1
10.31
Exhibit Window | Free
Immigrants are a Golden Thread woven through the American Fabric
Multi-Day Event:
10.1
10.11
